There were lots of posts on here about people buying external hard drives, "Shucking" them and using them internally when prices skyrocketed due to the flooding.
An interesting post on how Backblaze dealt with the situation - They needed a dozen of these a day and plenty of stores had a 2-drive limit or were sold out.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2012/10/09/backblaze_drive_farming…
great read
Good job Muzzamo.
Love the shucking idea too..thats usually for Yum yum yum Oysters!
That would be the things to do when all the OzBargainers come together to form a company :)
Drive farming continued throughout January and into mid-February of 2012. By then we had farmed 5.5 Petabytes of data storage.
If these are all 3TB drives, that's still 1,833 hard drive enclosures cracked open lying around. I wonder what did they do with them.
I think the comments on the page said they were all recycled.
I'm going to work to make "shucking" a part of the lingo both here and on whirlpool :-)
viral marketing ..?
viral buying
Now that was a very interesting read!