![]() ![]() The ‘engineering quantities’ that we needed weren’t of interest to the larger, more sophisticated players, and the small shops who would take our jobs would bump us to the back of the lineup if larger orders came in. Protocase was born of the frustration that Steve, I and other colleagues experienced when we tried to buy custom electronic enclosures. Steve is a mechanical engineer who had worked his career in the electronics industry, eventually becoming VP Ops of a company that built electronics for marine navigation before working with me on various freelance technology projects. I’m writing this because I believe that some will find this story relevant and interesting, and maybe inspire others to develop their ideas to reshape and refine their own areas of computing, just like our friends at Backblaze reshaped large storage.īack around 2002, my friend and now business partner Steve Lilley and I founded Protocase, 45 Drives’ parent company. In fact, just like the original large storage pods from Backblaze, they were built and used by clients of ours on a custom basis, and we’ve been quietly selling them in soft-launch for some time.Īfter our website went up late last week, we had some time to reflect on where we are, and we thought there were some interesting stories to tell about how large storage pods and the storage community created 45 Drives, and how we’ve been a conduit for the evolution of large storage pods. ![]() I put quotes around “launch” because it’s not really a conventional product launch, because these new products have been built and sold for some time. Over the last couple of months, everyone at 45 Drives has been totally immersed in work related to “launching” the new Storinator models that just went up on our site last Friday.
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