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Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

#11

Post by budmang »

jrnkntl wrote: post #5

cmd+f redundancy, availability, durability, 99: 0 results. Only on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/why-b2.html it is that I can cite the following: "the B2 Cloud Storage service has layers of redundancy to ensure data is durable and available". What that exactly is or what it translates to is nowhere to be found. If you want corporations or developers to use your storage services for their precious data, I'd be a bit mo…

brianwski below shares a good link...but you make a good point jrnkntl that we should talk more about it on the site. We'll plan to add more content around that on the Why B2 page. Thanks!

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by brianwski »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #10

In addition to the good point raised by @jcreedon regarding their single datacenter (which I think is a bit of a bigger deal than he does, primarily because I don't think it scales linearly per-GB for the first few datacenters, though it might thereafter), I'm more concerned about the bandwidth. There's no talk about their backbone or their network capacity. I get that they have terabytes of upload coming in, but as…

> as anyone who's used their software can tell you, it's throttled

Brian from Backblaze here: no it is not throttled (by us). If you only have a 10 Mbit/sec upload capacity you are throttled by your ISP. Also make sure you visit our "Performance" tab in the online backup client and tweak a few settings, like increase the number of threads.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

#13

Post by sspiff »

budmang wrote: post #4

I'm thrilled that we can offer this raw cloud storage for just $0.005/GB/month. Would love to hear from the Hacker News community what you do with storage today & what you might do with B2. Here are my thoughts on our announcement today: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-storage-provider/ Gleb

Thank you for doing this. I've read some awesome stuff on Backblaze's infrastructure over the years, but never could use the service (a high level backup solution for Windows/Mac isn't so useful for me).

This announcement may mean I finally get to test your stuff! (I've been frustrated with the quality and feature creep in open source syncing solutions and procrastinating building my own, bare bones alternative).

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by acdha »

budmang wrote: post #11
jrnkntl wrote: post #5

cmd+f redundancy, availability, durability, 99: 0 results. Only on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/why-b2.html it is that I can cite the following: "the B2 Cloud Storage service has layers of redundancy to ensure data is durable and available". What that exactly is or what it translates to is nowhere to be found. If you want corporations or developers to use your storage services for their precious data, I'd be a bit mo…

brianwski below shares a good link...but you make a good point jrnkntl that we should talk more about it on the site. We'll plan to add more content around that on the Why B2 page. Thanks!

Please go into detail about how failures are detected and handled – e.g. how often is the archive scrubbed, will bitrot be detected on access, etc. Those details are really important for comparing services.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by acdha »

budmang wrote: post #4

I'm thrilled that we can offer this raw cloud storage for just $0.005/GB/month. Would love to hear from the Hacker News community what you do with storage today & what you might do with B2. Here are my thoughts on our announcement today: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-cloud-storage-provider/ Gleb

Do you have any plans to offer some sort of WORM model where you could “seal” a bucket, file, etc. to prevent future changes? This is really nice for protecting against malware, human error or malice, etc. and a regulatory requirement for certain industries.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by brianwski »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #10

In addition to the good point raised by @jcreedon regarding their single datacenter (which I think is a bit of a bigger deal than he does, primarily because I don't think it scales linearly per-GB for the first few datacenters, though it might thereafter), I'm more concerned about the bandwidth. There's no talk about their backbone or their network capacity. I get that they have terabytes of upload coming in, but as…

Sorry about skipping your network capacity question. I just got over-excited about throttling. :-)

We currently have about 100 Gbps symmetric capacity into our datacenter on a couple of redundant providers, but the key is we have open overhead and we'll purchase more as our customers need it.

But here is the best part (if you want OUTBOUND capacity) - our current product fills the INBOUND internet connection, but currently we only use a tiny, tiny fraction of the OUTBOUND connection. So if you want to serve files out of our datacenter we have a metric ton of unused bandwidth we would LOVE you to use. And if you fill it up, we promise to purchase more.

But also keep in mind, Backblaze is very experienced with STORAGE and I have a lot of confidence we won't lose any of your files. What we don't have a huge amount of experience with yet is serving up viral videos and such. So just bear with us during this beta period while we figure it all out. Personally I'm looking forward to that part (all the CDN/caching layers).

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by thoughtpalette »

Is this going to work for static asset hosting such as for low cost FE assets? Can this be set to serve an index file from the root directory? Doe's it provide you a public URL to your (stealing s3 terms) bucket?

Just curious as to why I would migrate from S3 for FE assets to Backblaze.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by Jake232 »

You should allows period (.) in your signup form email field. I know you can just remove the period and the email will still get delivered to my gmail, but plenty of people likely don't know this.

Re: Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

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Post by ck2 »

brianwski wrote: post #9
ck2 wrote: post #6

Now we know why the sub-$200 6TB drives keep going out of stock.

Brian from Backblaze here. We can't find them either. We buy either 4 TB or 8 TB right now, and we're experimenting with 10 TB drives. We don't know why the 6 TB drives appeared and then disappeared...

Tigerdirect had them for $170 for a few days.

Note TDs are air-filled 7200rpm regular drives.

Are those 8TB and 10TB the helium ones with HAMR? Very slow.

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