Petabytes on a budget - Building on the Backblaze Storage Pod design

February 28, 2010

Prices For Cases

Filed under: BackBlazePod,Manufacture — thattommyhall @ 12:28 am

We have just got those prices for the cases, if you want to have a run of your own we can schedule separately for the prices below.
I assumed that people would want to club together and try to access the lower prices for a combined bulk order, I would like to do the first in 1 month (deadline to join is April 1st)

10 = £400
20 = £350
50 = £300
100 = £275

(These may shift down slightly but I am assured they will not go up and they do not include postage. They are all less than the $700 BackBlaze listed for Protocase)

Please send mail to tom@tthuk.com with

  • Who you are
  • How many cases you want
  • At what price you would buy in at (ie if you want some but only if we reach a certain price point)
    • I have a VAT registered, UK limited company I will be invoicing from for these and can arrange shipping anywhere in the EU.

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February 11, 2010

Backblaze Manufacture

Filed under: BackBlazePod,Manufacture — John @ 1:43 pm

Having looked at the backblaze pod they have done a very god job of making the unit affordable and functional. It is hard to find anywhere to remove cost.

I have made only 1 change so far which is more for manufacture than anything else. The company we will be using for manufacture primarily use punching machines rather than laser cutters. To allow for this i have removed the Backblaze Logo and removed the venting pattern from the fan mounts. For ease these will be replaced with after market wire grills.

Removing the laser detail and adapting the design for punching does have other advantages. The punching machines can work a lot faster than the Laser cutters. This means that it costs less to produce each item once the initial set up has been completed.

On orders of about 10 units plus we should see a cost saving over the price from Protocase listed on the backblaze blog.

I will upload solid models soon to show the changes made to the fan grills (even though this is only a very minor change)

I have completed the manufacturing 2D manufacturuing drawings and we should have final prices for the units within the next 2 weeks.

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