Thread: "Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives"
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Old October 9th 17, 10:49 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
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Default "Yes, Backblaze Just Ordered 100 Petabytes of Hard Drives"
On 10/7/2017 10:32 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:30:13 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

Now I know why the 8 TB and 10 TB drives are in short supply.

No, you don't.

100PB = 10k of the 10TB drives.

10k drives is a very small percentage of those drives produced.

Plus I would assume that the NSA is using 100X of the amount of drives
that Backblaze is using.

Lynn