{"id":44451,"date":"2015-11-10T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=44451"},"modified":"2023-05-03T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T23:14:40","slug":"cloud-storage-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/cloud-storage-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hardware Inside Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage: Storage Pod 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\non ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek<\/a> as we designed and prototyped our next generation Storage Pod. We’re done, and Storage Pod 5.0 is here and it is faster, beefier, easier to assemble, easier to maintain, and less expensive than Storage Pod 4.5<\/a>. It is also the hardware that enables us to offer our newly announced Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage<\/a> for just $0.005\/GB\/month. As always, the Storage Pod<\/a> design is open-source and we\u2019ve included the instructions and diagrams you\u2019ll need to build your very own Storage Pod 5.0.<\/p>\n

Building for the Future<\/h2>\n

Storage Pods have always been designed and built to provide Backblaze with low-cost data storage. When we decided that we were going to offer B2 Cloud Storage<\/a> as the lowest cost cloud storage in the world, we doubled down on making our storage infrastructure more durable and more performant without raising the cost of storing data. Step one was designing and deploying the Backblaze Vault architecture<\/a> to improve durability. Step two was designing and building Storage Pods that were more performant and lower cost to use in the Vaults. That\u2019s why we built Storage Pod 5.0.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s New in Storage Pod 5.0<\/h2>\n

When you look at Storage Pod 5.0, nearly everything, inside and out, looks different than previous versions<\/a>. Here\u2019s Tim, our Chief Cloud Officer (CCO), to walk you through the changes\u2026<\/p>\n