Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
Worth pointing out (for those of you not in the storage game) that these appliances, while cool, are pretty far from state of the art.  We're (Dropbox) packing up to an order of magnitude more storage into 4U.  And costs aren't close, let alone the addressable throughput given that you guys just went to 10G.<p>Serious kudos though are due for the Backblaze blog.  You're all at least talking about what you're up to, which is awesome both for education around building large storage systems and establishing transparency with your customer base.<p>Unfortunately, a lot of the bigger clusters' teams won't/can't talk about what exactly they're doing and how they're doing it for trade secret reasons.  If you want to learn about it, you have to come work for one of us.  :-)<p>Also, the orangered hardware looks awesome.