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Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python by programmarchy on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:12AM (#17406307)
From my understanding, they've put a lot of work into lowering the cost of storage. I know at one point they were using arrays of consumer-grade drives, and they've done a bunch of analysis on the cost and reliability of drives on the market. They also created the "Storage Pod" [1] to maximize storage density.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

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Re:Show HN: B2blaze – A Backblaze B2 library for Python by Aissen on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:23AM (#17406602)
Every cloud company does that. Google, Amazon, MS, all use consume-grade drives with software on top to reduce costs and increase reliability at a fraction of traditional enterprise storage solutions. Scality even provides a proprietary solution to do the same on-premise.
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