Aha, I emailed Backblaze directly as well, and got this:

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Hi David,

You're right! I feel like everyone wants a storage pod! Well, the good news is that the case is manufactured in your part of the world by a company called Protocase. They are selling the cases directly on their website after receiving a few hundred inquiries... Check out http://www.protocase.com

As for the backplanes, we originally discovered them by disassembling a Sans Digital TowerRAID TR5M1... http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr5m1.html

Buying the enclosure just for the backplane is a bit expensive so you can order them directly from the CFI Group in Taiwan ( http://www.chyangfun.com/ ) for $42/each, in quantity. Not sure how much they would charge for a smaller order.

Good luck! ---

-- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 T: (416) 595-6222, x 241 F: (416) 595-9122 E: davidf@mrxfx.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Klaassen" clawsoon@yahoo.com To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 12:16:49 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.

Ditto... would definitely like any information you've got.

Andrew

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, David Fix davidf@mrxfx.com wrote:

Is that the CFY Vendor from Taiwan that was mentioned earlier? :) And if not (or if so, even!), do you have any contact information? :)

I totally wanna build one of these, and getting the backplane and chassis is the only thing holding me back. :D

-- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. 35 McCaul Street, Ste. #100 Toronto, ON M5T 1V7 T: (416) 595-6222, x 241 F: (416) 595-9122 E: davidf@mrxfx.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Roizman" roizman@kolektiv.com To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com Sent: Friday, September 4, 2009 11:45:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Question about network deleting.

I can't speak for sandwhiches though I prefer montreal smoked...

I contacted the case vendor for Blackblaze and they are selling the cases:

Quantity

Price

1 – 4

$872

5 – 9

$812

10 – 19

$782

20+

$758

-Daniel

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