Backblaze’s Custom Data Center PDU

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I love that these guys are validating the idea that you don't need "enterprise" hardware to run an enterprise.

You can even see in their photos that they are using consumer power supplies, albeit higher quality ones. They also have a lot of data comparing consumer to enterprise drives. The enterprise drives do not impress, especially considering the very high price premium.

Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, it really is just about seeing what works well for our environment and our use-case. We certainly COULD go out and buy enterprise-grade power supplies, but the system is designed for failure, so the added expense often is not worth it!

How do you handle failover with these PSUs? Or are there merely two because of the high power requirements?

Looks like they just found a cheap pdu - by geist.

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