13 Mar
2015
13 Mar
'15
10:24 p.m.
On 2015-03-13 Adam Thompson wrote:
Wasn't this one of the reasons Backblaze got so famous, for doing exactly that? Or was that just an availability issue at the time? -Adam
Ya, I was going to dig up that link and add it in but I forgot... I think you originally posted that. Rang my bell too.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
It's a funny story. Probably the same thing is happening here but with regards to the 20%+ decrease in the CA$? Well, that and hard drive mfr insanity (or it goes to show the gougation (to coin a term) going on when it comes to desktop hard drives)!