Blackblaze is primarily a backup storage company. Their main bread and butter is relatively cold data storage.
Lots of VPS and similar services offer SSD storage now, and I expect it to grow. The one I use didn't even a non-SSD option, and it was a pretty cheap provider.
SSDs offer orders of magnitude better random IO, I imagine that allows the hosting company to have more clients per storage unit, lowering the effective cost of SSDs.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 20.7 ms ] threadLots of VPS and similar services offer SSD storage now, and I expect it to grow. The one I use didn't even a non-SSD option, and it was a pretty cheap provider.
SSDs offer orders of magnitude better random IO, I imagine that allows the hosting company to have more clients per storage unit, lowering the effective cost of SSDs.