Comments on: How to add 5.5 petabytes and get banned from Costco during a hard drive crisis http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LogicBites http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1292061 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:28:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1292061 Nice of them to scoop up all the bargains and keep the prices high. Now if people stopped using their, and possibly others, service would the price of hard drives fall?

You get to pay both for their service and a higher price for hard drive storage.

Interesting, what?

]]> By: AlexB http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1119128 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:18:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1119128 Fun article. Basically guaranteed that I would NEVER rely on Backblaze for backup!

What a bunch of amatures and Dropbox wanna be doing hack jobs to be in business. They will 100% fail if they are successful enough to get many customers. You can operate like this when you got a few customers but this high school style of management won’t scale.

Like what was the morale of the story? How to ripoff retailers? And how to get ppl to drive around source Hard drives?

]]> By: Dan Dart http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1109070 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:18:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1109070 I’d never heard of this business. Now you’ve slashdotted them again. And they’ll be still scrambling again. Great job people.

]]> By: True Cloud - IMHO http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1100289 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:22:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1100289 This type of storage is not true ‘cloud’ backup (IMHO). For true ‘cloud’ backup, for a similar cost, that doesn’t rely on portable hard drives, data centres, or any other costly infrastructure, memoryboxbackup.com or incriptus.com

]]> By: BrianB http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1094486 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:36:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1094486 Enterprise drives are different. They maintain high throughput I/O rates when subjected to the high vibration environment of many servers and drives densely packed into racks.
The performance hit is substantial.

This was an interesting read…

“Performance Impact of External Vibration on
Consumer-grade and Enterprise-class Disk Drives”

(Google the title)

]]> By: Simon Raban http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1090496 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:41:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1090496 Why aren’t they using data center grade storage arrays that are much more reliable? I am surprised that they offer customers storage that can be bought at Costco. I would not sign up for their service.

]]> By: Sean Patterson http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1087821 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:54:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1087821 Mike,

I was an IT manager at a university during the shortage. I ran into the same difficulties even though I’d done proper capacity planning, and ended up stripping external drives for use in my private cloud for archiving. If my backup services failed, my users stood a good chance of losing critical data and years of research. (For those who wonder, yes, I was using CrashPlan.) I tested the hell out of them before making the decision and I can say for sure (with the exception of the WD Green drives) they were as reliable as the pro versions I was buying. There are many reasons to buy enterprise level HDDs; reliability is not necessarily one of them.

]]> By: Bob L http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1085602 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:30:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1085602 What bit of Backblaze “offers unlimited cloud backup” do you not understand? They’re not a typical start-up, they’re effectively a 100% competitor to AWS in many ways! That would be like telling Oracle to buy their database expertise from Microsoft when faced with a DB consultant hiring shortage. Please!

]]> By: Stephen http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1084596 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:24:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1084596 Yup, I remember around Thanksgiving ’11 when Costco still had 2TB drives available for $99 when any other tech seller who read the news had already jacked up their prices. So Costco is where we should all shop next time this happens. :-P

]]> By: Matt Cooper http://gigaom.com/2012/10/09/how-to-add-5-5-petabytes-and-get-banned-from-costco-during-a-hard-drive-crisis/#comment-1082827 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:22:13 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=571255#comment-1082827 You’d think he’d go the incredibly economical route of building a REAL storage system. They should be going to a supplier such as Ingram Micro or ASI and just buy in bulk. This sounds almost like the guy sells unlimited storage at $5 a month through a Windows Home Server.

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