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Farming Hard Drives (2012)

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41 points floriangosse | 2 comments | 16 Oct 25 05:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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philipwhiuk ◴[22 Oct 25 17:04 UTC] No.45672074[source]▶
Going around to lots of stores burning fuel depriving regular consumers of inventory forcing them onto your cloud solution.

It's classic SV screw-regular-folk-as-long-as-its-not-banned.

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1. fwipsy ◴[22 Oct 25 17:11 UTC] No.45672152[source]▶
Devil's advocate: Individual users probably aren't filling a 3tb hard drive most of the time. (This may not apply to HN users, but I imagine most people buy a hard drive larger than they need and never fill it up.) So arguably, Backblaze used the drives more efficiently, because each drive benefited many users and its entire capacity would be used.
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2. gwbas1c ◴[22 Oct 25 17:28 UTC] No.45672372[source]▶
That's not appropriate. People buy those drives to do whatever the ^#$^#$ they want to do with them. Backblaze's service may or may not be an effective replacement for what people wanted the drives for.