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Does anybody know which Dell product they use? Dell also has JBOD enclosures like Powervault MD2460

they mention servers, so possibly not jbods, but R740xd2 (or newer R760xd2). The former are 26x3.5" so would match what they describe.

Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze.

We use Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 rack servers in our Amsterdam data center.

Cool, thanks! Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there or your own drives?

> Do you put official, expensive Dell drives in there

Absolutely not! The Dell servers have a similar mix of drives as we use in the Backblaze pods and SMC servers.

We added a 'datacenter' field to the Drive Stats data in Q3 2023, so you can download the CSV files and see exactly what's deployed in ams5. See https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-...