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Farming Hard Drives (2012)

(www.backblaze.com)
41 points floriangosse | 4 comments | 16 Oct 25 05:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. sfblah ◴[22 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45672574[source]▶
I just checked and it looks like this company has never turned a profit. I don't really know why anyone would even use their product, since it's so easy just to use the various cloud systems out there instead of storing any meaningful data locally. Will they turn a profit before this business model totally is outmoded?
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2. MatthiasPortzel ◴[22 Oct 25 18:33 UTC] No.45673277[source]▶
Backblaze is a cloud storage company
3. ethmarks ◴[22 Oct 25 19:23 UTC] No.45673925[source]▶
The reason they're farming hard drives is so they can add them to their cloud storage network. You realize that cloud storage isn't actually in clouds, right? Hard drives are always local somewhere, and in Backblaze's case that 'somewhere' is a data center.
4. DaSHacka ◴[23 Oct 25 07:29 UTC] No.45679181[source]▶
Lol, good bait