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Nov092012

Farming Hard Drives

An interesting story of how online backup provider BackBlaze scoured local Costco and Best Buy stores for affordable hard drives when flooding in Thailand drove up prices significantly threatening the business's cost structure.


(I use BackBlaze for cloud backups of our home computers, and have been very happy with them)


Backblaze Blog ยป Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis


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