"Floods, Viruses, and Volcanoes: Managing Supply Chain in Uncertain Times"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/managing-supply-chain-in-uncertain-times/
"At the most basic level, our services and products rely on a singular >building block: the hard drive. And today, were going to discuss how
our team has ensured that, as more businesses and individuals turn to
cloud storage to solve their rapidly evolving data storage and
management needs, weve had what we need to care for the petabytes of >inbound data."
"Were no strangers to navigating an external threat to business as
usual. In 2011, flooding in Thailand impacted nearly 50% of the worlds
hard drive manufacturing capability, limiting supply and dramatically >raising hard drive prices. At the time, Backblaze was only about four
years into providing its computer backup service, and we needed to find
a way to keep up with storage demand without going broke. We came up
with a hack that became internally known as drive farming."
I have this mental image of farmers on tractors planting hard drive
seeds and harvesting full grown 3.5 inch hard drives a couple of months >later.
On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 13:44:02 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
"Floods, Viruses, and Volcanoes: Managing Supply Chain in Uncertain Times" >>
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/managing-supply-chain-in-uncertain-times/
"At the most basic level, our services and products rely on a singular
building block: the hard drive. And today, we’re going to discuss how
our team has ensured that, as more businesses and individuals turn to
cloud storage to solve their rapidly evolving data storage and
management needs, we’ve had what we need to care for the petabytes of
inbound data."
"We’re no strangers to navigating an external threat to business as
usual. In 2011, flooding in Thailand impacted nearly 50% of the world’s
hard drive manufacturing capability, limiting supply and dramatically
raising hard drive prices. At the time, Backblaze was only about four
years into providing its computer backup service, and we needed to find
a way to keep up with storage demand without going broke. We came up
with a hack that became internally known as “drive farming.”"
I have this mental image of farmers on tractors planting hard drive
seeds and harvesting full grown 3.5 inch hard drives a couple of months
later.
But you remember what happened back then, right? With their usual
purchasing channels drying up, they had a bunch of employees drive from
store to store, buying whatever they could find on store shelves.
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