This is the same company who came to the conclusion it was cheaper to send people to costco to buy hard drives and manually remove them from enclosures than just negotiate with a vendor[1].<p>They reckoned they bought 5.5 petabytes of data at retail prices. I&#x27;ve always taken what they say with a grain of salt.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;backblaze_drive_farming&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backblaze.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;backblaze_drive_farming&#x2F;</a>