Backblaze are&#x2F;were bootstrapped. They don&#x27;t have the money to burn to move outside of the sweetspot $&#x2F;GB - so their logic starts with which size drive is expected to be cheapest per GB in the next 12 months. I remember some of their old posts explaining why they made the jump from 2 to 3tb drives - they are slightly more expensive today, but we expect them to go down in price soon.