I am a customer of theirs both of their backup service and their plans for machines. The backup service has never let me down and at work we've built two of their machines using their plans saving over 10K.
The machine plans are on their site and they explain why they chose off the shelf components. My only regret is that no one on our team has welding skills, so we couldn't make awesome face plates. lol
Backblaze is one of the more transparent companies operating in the space, which increased the trust level.
Gleb from Backblaze here. Glad you're enjoying the service and the spec design. As for the faceplates, our welding skills aren't great either. However, the company we had cut our steel case for us (www.protocase.com) will cut a custom logo for you into your faceplate as well.
The machine plans are on their site and they explain why they chose off the shelf components. My only regret is that no one on our team has welding skills, so we couldn't make awesome face plates. lol
Backblaze is one of the more transparent companies operating in the space, which increased the trust level.