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DeathArrow on Jan 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

If it's cheaper to use servers from Dell and Supermicro instead of their own design, why weren't they doing it from the start?

GrayShade on Jan 4, 2024 [–]

Probably not cheaper today, but reasonably close. And certainly not cheaper 10 years ago.

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