{"id":255,"date":"2010-06-14T17:55:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/backblaze-racks-100th-storage-pod\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:35:04","slug":"backblaze-racks-100th-storage-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-racks-100th-storage-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze Racks 100th Storage Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header.jpg\" alt=\"Backblaze Storage Pod\" width=\"1440\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/storage_pod_header-220x125.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">In 2008 we started deploying our Storage Pods and in September 2009 we gave away the design on our blog in a post titled, &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petabytes on a Budget: How to Build Cheap <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\">Cloud Storage<\/a>.&#8221; This weekend we deployed our 100<sup>th<\/sup> Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/resources\/storage-pod\">Storage Pod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you counting, that&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>100 Pods<\/li>\n<li>4,500 spinning hard drives<\/li>\n<li>6,668 terabytes (6.5<a href=\"\/blog\/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-years-and-counting\/\"> petabytes<\/a>) of storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is a picture (taken on a first generation iPhone this morning) of one set of racks in the data center. You can see the 100<sup>th<\/sup> Pod at the very end of this row.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pod-100.jpg\" alt=\"100th_Storage_Pod\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Onward to the next 100 Storage Pods!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008 we started deploying our Storage Pods and in September 2009 we gave away the design on our blog in a post titled, &#8220;Petabytes on a Budget: How to Build Cheap Cloud Storage.&#8221; This weekend we deployed our 100th Backblaze Storage Pod. 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