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I wonder if any of those companies talk to Backblaze about it. Like sending drives back for inspection :)

I'm also curious why those companies wouldn't directly talk to backblaze. I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale.

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Yev from Backblaze here ->

> I read somewhere a blog post on how they bought specific drives online at a sale.

Yea, we used to buy drives wherever we could, but that was years ago. We're larger now so we go through more established channels.

Also no natural disasters taking out the manufacturers again, right?

Can't really count on those NOT happening - but we are more prepared now ;)

Yeah I mean that was the impetus for buying them off the shelves, wasn’t it? It was a crisis management technique not a business plan :)

Yes, that's right. It was one of those "better think quick" scenarios and we did what we had to in order to stay in business!

What a bad time :|. When i remember correctly, it took over a year to get prices after the disaster.

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