


In 2017 during the first review of the cost of hard disks, Backblaze was spending just $0.03 per gigabyte.

Since 2009, the San Mateo-based corporation purchased 265,332 HDDs and kept meticulous records of each one.Īs recently revealed by Andy Klein on the company's official blog, in 2009 the average cost per gigabyte was $0.11. After crunching some numbers, a clear figure comes to light: the cost per gigabyte is steadily going down, and it will soon reach an unprecedented milestone.īackblaze has kept records for most of the hard drives used in its cloud storage business. Forward-looking: As a company mostly dealing in cloud storage and data backup, Backblaze has managed a lot of hard disks over the years.
