Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

blog.backblaze.com — At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867. Sep 1, 2009 View in Crawl 4