| Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze. > one should stick to SSDs for sound I think you should stick to SSDs for performance reasons. :-) I can't go back to spinning drives for my desktop computers. But here is one idea for you... Backblaze started in my dive one bedroom rental apartment in Palo Alto, California. Here is what that looks like with cubical walls setup in my living room: https://i.imgur.com/twu5vKe.jpg Ok, so my desk in that picture is the one on the far right. I positioned my desk in the living room against a wall carefully so that my gas furnace room (with a door) was DIRECTLY on the other side of the wall. Then I put the computer inside the furnace room, drilled a hole through the drywall large enough to run the monitor cables and USB for the keyboard and mouse, and my desk was SILENT. I caught SO MUCH grief for putting my computer in a furnace room, but the silence was worth it. I still claim to this day that if the furnace pumped out all of it's heat into the closet surrounding the furnace that would be a terrible design, that's not how it works at all. :-) But if it bothers you deeply, find a wall where there is a coat closet on the other side. Here are more pictures of the original combination furnace room and machine room in the first Backblaze Corporate Headquarters: https://www.ski-epic.com/2007_small_business_setup/dell_xps_... |
Also wow you founded Backblaze, super exciting to meet you here. I am a happy customer and also got my family members to sign up so that they don't have to worry about losing pictures.
Heard about Backblaze from one of the professors at university. Can't imagine unsubscribing ever, it's definitely a part of essential software package for me.
Also if BackBlaze founder recommends to stick to SSDs I will stick to SSDs :)