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I have a synology single HDD NAS, which syncs to cloud. Its kinda slow but handy.
Which obviously means you also have to pay for cloud storage right? What cloud storage do you use?
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They've been publishing these stats for years and years now, too. It's a wealth of data they've provided and has helped me pick the dozens of drives I've ordered over the years
Where are you ordering your drives from these days? In the past I went from physical shops -> new egg -> amazon and now amazon and new egg aren't reliable sellers and the physical shops are either gone, under-stocked, or buy their stuff on amazon too.
Do you guys have suggestions for backing up media (photos and videos)?
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Yeah I have 3.5TB of photos. Backing them up redundantly is a bit of a pain but just a few external drives will do it, though requires manual syncing
Thanks. Also...holy shit, I haven't kept up on how precipitously prices for storage have dropped. Just saw a 10 TB external drive for only $150!
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What plan are you using? Their website suggests that their plans for a single user costs are ~$6-$10 a month. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/pricing It's still a pretty good deal though...
Cloud backup != B2. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing $6/TB/Month. Very manageable egress-fees. If you're using it for cold-backup, hopefully you rarely have to pay them.
I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…
Pricing can be funny! Total Data Stored Monthly Downloads Cost 1TB 1000TB $119,712/yr 1000TB 1000TB $72,000/yr What is the cheapest TDS for a given 1000TB monthly downloads? Seems to be: 334TB 1000TB $24,048/yr So there are situations where uploading dummy files that pad with zeros will reduce your bill. --- Edit: The 334 now seems obvious when you consider: * Egress is $10/TB * Store is $6/TB Free Egress is 3x month…
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Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?
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For $9/month you would get a lot more features from the backup service. The interesting ones being File Sharing and Extended Version History. So it depends if you want those, as well as a nice web UI. And at 1TB the numbers get closer, at 2TB it becomes cheaper to use the backup service. The main thing for me is legacy. In my will it is a lot easier to explain how to get files from the standard backup plan, rather th…
That’s $9 per computer, not directly comparable to raw storage to use however you want. I get there are ways around this (host a local centralized backup) but that then sort of destroys the turnkey part anyway.
I use B2 as the backend for my personal backups using restic (which I would highly recommend https://github.com/restic/restic ). I don't have a ton of data to backup, so even with hourly backups (restic only backs up when there are changes) I have ~100GB and it runs me a whopping $0.60/month. I almost feel guilty when I get the bill. But the minute I need to pick a storage platform in a professional context I know wh…
The numbers you are shared are mind-blowing to me. Can you confirm: Do you pay your bill (1) monthly and (2) by automated credit card payment? If yes, don't the credit card transaction fees paid by Backblaze exceed the amount!? This post has literally inspired me to sign-up. I have put off Internet backups for a long time!