Back several months ago we looked at how a company called Backblaze was finding creative ways to get HDDs through retail channels for their on-line storage business during the depths of the Thailand flood HDD shortages. The company would buy external storage boxes at lower prices than the available single hard disk drives and then “shuck” the external storage boxes to recover the drives that they then used in their own “Storage Pods” to expand their on-line storage capacity. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest