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# Building Storage for Backblaze
- URL: https://chrisenns.com/2014/03/building-storage-for-backblaze/
- Published: 2014-03-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-08T23:52:47.000Z
- Author: Chris Enns
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-04-08 17:47, #ichris

Backblaze - [sign up here and support my blog](https://www.backblaze.com/partner/af2307?ref=chrisenns.com) \- does automatic, offsite back up from your computer. I use it and love having a backup system that I don't have to think about - much like Apple's own Time Machine service that's built into every Mac - plus it's offsite.

Over on the Backblaze blog they've [written up details on their storage pod 4](https://blog.backblaze.com/2014/03/19/backblaze-storage-pod-4/?ref=chrisenns.com) \- the system of hard drives they build to back up all their customer's data:

> Storage Pod 4.0 uses forty-five 4 TB hard drives for a storage capacity of 180 TB

They've managed to get the cost per gigabyte down from $0.117 for their original Storage Pod in September, 2009 to $0.0517 currently on Storage Pod 4.

You can [learn how to build your own](https://www.45drives.com/wiki/index.php/Main%5FPage?ref=chrisenns.com) for around $10,500 or order it from [45drives](https://www.45drives.com/?ref=chrisenns.com) for $12,600.

We will never have enough storage.