{"id":460,"date":"2011-10-19T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:14:13","slug":"the-1-35-petabyte-backblaze-salt-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/the-1-35-petabyte-backblaze-salt-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"The 1.35 Petabyte Backblaze Salt Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_salt_drives2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-C2ZH2sra\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-469\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_salt_drives2.jpg\" alt=\"Salt is great, but I prefer pepper on my drives\" width=\"550\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_salt_drives2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/backblazeprod.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/blog_salt_drives2-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Researchers have discovered that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/table-salt-sodium-chloride-18tb-hdd-10-nm,13728.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pinch of table salt<\/a> can get more data onto spinning <a href=\"\/blog\/life-and-times-of-a-backblaze-hard-drive\/\">hard drive<\/a> platters. A lot more: 6TB in a single platter!<\/p>\n<p>Considering the latest drives have up to five platters, that would be 30TB in a single hard drive. Put 45 of those drives into a Backblaze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/cloud-storage\/resources\/storage-pod\">Storage Pod <\/a>and you would store 1.35PB (!) in a single Storage Pod; more than 10PB in a single rack.<\/p>\n<p>Hello, big data. Meet your best friend, salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that a pinch of table salt can get more data onto spinning hard drive platters. A lot more: 6TB in a single platter! Considering the latest drives have up to five platters, that would be 30TB in a single hard drive. Put 45 of those drives into a Backblaze Storage Pod and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/the-1-35-petabyte-backblaze-salt-pod\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 1.35 Petabyte Backblaze Salt Pod<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[468],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-storage","category-storage-pod","tag-b2cloud","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The 1.35 Petabyte Drive: A Look at the Backblaze Salt Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Researchers have discovered that a pinch of table salt can get more data onto spinning hard drive platters. 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