#BACKBLAZE PRICING COMPARE PLUS#

The system is fully tested prior to shipping (including running it with 45 data disks installed) and when it arrived at our location the system had a fully-usable and bootable 64bit version of Ubuntu Linux already installed on the single boot/OS disk. We got the “everything but the drives” kit and boy are we glad we did. In production business or scientific settings, wiring assembly should be done by specialists, not geeked-out amateurs like ourselves.īarebones chassis or “everything but the drives” options are both available from. We love hardware and we love DIY projects but after years of experience in high performance scientific computing environments we have seen enough custom wiring disasters. This was almost a deal breaker for moving forward on this project. We also realized that even if we did find all the individual parts, we’d still be building our own wiring harnesses. At the time we were searching, some parts (such as the recommended power supply) were in incredibly short supply and effectively unavailable at the time.

Many of the parts listed are priced for volume sales to system builders and integrators so it’s actually hard to save money or get a similar price for people like us looking to purchase in small quantities. We started searching out individual parts - there are roughly 19 items and close to 300 actual parts involved! Administrators guide: $72Īctually we took the lazy way out here.Ground shipping to Massachusetts, USA: $160.Backblaze “everything but the drives” kit from : $5395.

#BACKBLAZE PRICING COMPARE PLUS#

This number includes the 45 drives needed for the chassis plus 3 additional drives to keep around as spares. Ultimately it was a sales rep at CDW.com who sold our client 48 drives at a price of $129 each for a total cost of $6,192. Our best quoted price from this channel was roughly $186 per drive. This might have to do with the fact that our friends mainly use enterprise-class drives and thus don’t purchase the consumer-oriented ones by the pallet load. None of our friends could access those Hitachi drives at prices anywhere close to $120/each. We did a lot more than just basic googling – we reached out to friends and contacts who own storage and storage related businesses to see if they could pass on ‘bulk’ drive pricing to us. The price discrepancy is easy to see with the recommended 5400 RPM consumer-grade desktop Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630 3TB disks. When it comes to accurately characterizing the out-of-pocket costs for building a single backblaze-style storage pod, the kind folks over at the blog post that started it all are actually being a little bit too honest with their pricing data! It looks like their published pricing data takes into consideration volume price or “VIP customer” type discounts be cause we had a hard time trying to match those prices when researching on our own. Here are the real costs for our backblaze pod project

Backblaze pricing compare