[metadaddy]

Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.

We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.

[atesti]

Cool, thanks! Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there or your own drives?

[metadaddy]

> Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there

Absolutely not! The Dell servers have a similar mix of drives as we use in the Backblaze pods and SMC servers.

We added a 'datacenter' field to the Drive Stats data in Q3 2023, so you can download the CSV files and see exactly what's deployed in ams5. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...