Yev here! It&#x27;s an interesting question. We use the pods in a larger &quot;Vault&quot; configuration, so the way we use them is a bit different (basically a set of 20 pods are connected -&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;vault-cloud-storage-architecture&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;vault-cloud-storage-architect...</a>). But, if you&#x27;re buying a single pod, you could configure the software however you want, though you&#x27;d likely need the first hard drive to go on to the backplane that gets read first. We use different software so ours expects there to be 60 drives, but there&#x27;s nothing stopping you from configuring Debian or whatnot to read a specific drive first.<p>We ARE tracking SSD costs but thus far it&#x27;s not quite at the point where the Cost per GB is in our favor. We&#x27;d love to play with them once it gets close, it would neat to build an SSD pod and see how it stacks up!