Since I’ve last written about the Backblaze storage pod, I bought nearly the rest of my components – the hard drives and the power supplies. I still haven’t picked up my anti-vibration foam rubber pad that will sit between my hard drives and the top of the case, but I see this component as relatively minor in the grand scheme of things.
It was a tight race up until the end, with some last minute heroics thrown in there, but I’m glad to announce I do have a winner for my photo contest.
I need to update the photographs I have on display at Buffalo Wild Wings in Mattoon and I am asking for your input.
Any visitor to my site can see I’m a user and promoter of Backblaze’s online backup service (and if you’re not backing up your data, you should really give them a look.) Backblaze provides unlimited storage for $5 a month of $50 a year and does all of the heavy lifting in the background without bugging you about the details. You read that right, unlimited storage for $5 a month. Blasphemy? Black magic? Voodoo? Nope. They created their own storage pod that is capable of holding 67 terabytes of data per pod – for $7867 per pod. What they did with that design next is just plain awesome. They gave the design away to the public.
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The easiest way to describe what is going on is to have a look at the screen capture of the issue in action.
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