Backblaze Blog » Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets

135 terabyte, 4U server for $7,384 is pretty cool!

It’s been over a year since Backblaze revealed the designs of our first generation (67 terabyte) storage pod. During that time, we’ve remained focused on our mission to provide an unlimited online backup service for $5 per month. To maintain profitability, we continue to avoid overpriced commercial solutions, and we now build the Backblaze Storage Pod 2.0: a 135-terabyte, 4U server for $7,384. It’s double the storage and twice the performance—at lower cost than the original.

Backblaze Blog » Petabytes on a Budget v2.0:Revealing More Secrets

Problem accessing shared drive

Last Friday I had a problem seeing my shared network drive. Today I figured out that Netbios over TCPIP was disabled. I am not sure how this happen.

T410 Fan Error

This morning I tried to start up my laptop at work. It had just gotten beyond the Lenovo logo when it said it had a Fan Error and shut down. My boss came in and took the battery out. He waited 20 seconds and then put it back in. It started up fine. Ouch!