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by rovr138 1880 days ago
In 2012 there was a shortage due to a flood.

They rented a truck and hit up all Costcos (I think it was) from Florida to I don't know where buying all of the drives they could. There was a limit on how many so it was a mission to do it.

Edit to add a link and change "Around 2010" to 2012,

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/