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by justinclift 2242 days ago
How far off do you reckon Backblaze is from designing your own motherboards + electronics, with just the pieces you need? :)
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Pretty far. Since we cram so many drives into each server, our total server count is actually relatively low for the amount of storage we have. I'm not sure exactly how many units you need to amortize the design costs across to make it worth it for a custom ODM design, but I suspect it's in the tens of thousands.