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by RantyDave 811 days ago
Backblaze have written many blog posts on how they go from a few thousand hard drives to a business. For me, the most interesting part was they went from six generations of self designed storage pods to "fuck it, just buy Dell". Long story short: these businesses are surprisingly complicated.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/next-backblaze-storage-pod/