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Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by autoexec »

joshfee wrote: post #29

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…

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...

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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autoexec wrote: post #41
joshfee wrote: post #29

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…

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...

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Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by phpisthebest »

autoexec wrote: post #41
joshfee wrote: post #29

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…

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...

B2 is not Cloud Backup, B2 is there S3 compatible storage that you pay by the GB

your links are to their "backup" service which is only for Windows and Mac computers, and is limited to their backup app which many people report having throttling and other issues, it is "unlimited" in the sense that it should only be used for a single computer, which is why they never support Linux on it, because they believe (probably correctly) that linux support would mean most people will install it to NAS devices and ruin the business model for everyone else

Historically that has been the case for all of the backup solutions that offered "unlimited" data for a fixed price monthly, I think BackBlaze is the only remaining vendor in the game that does

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by phpisthebest »

pqdbr wrote: post #18

I really wished Backblaze B2 worked better to be a real alternative to S3. The pricing is a middle finger to AWS and other providers. However, we were having 1 outage per month with B2, and in the middle of 2023 we decided to go back to AWS and only use S3 for replication. We still monitor both services simultaneously (S3 and B2), and every other month we are still having an episode where the latency rises from 15ms…

I have tried several S3 Alternative so far Wasabi has been the best...

I had some Latency and Bandwidth problems when trying to push alot of data into BackBlaze not terrible but slower than Wasabi it however was usable. Some of the other vendors I tried were not even usable

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by MertsA »

autoexec wrote: post #41
joshfee wrote: post #29

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…

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...

Backblaze B2 is their generic object storage platform similar to S3. You pay what you use and it scales into petabytes. There's no minimums so if you're only using small amounts, you get a small bill at the end of the month. It's not backup software, just the underlying cloud storage platform.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by artimaeis »

autoexec wrote: post #41
joshfee wrote: post #29

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…

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.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by lazide »

lostlogin wrote: post #35
prirun wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Where do regular people buy servers without insane markup if you need say 10-20? IMO, for a small number of servers, the insane markup isn't a huge cost of business so doesn't matter that much.

It’s a pity there isn’t a way for several buyers to pool their purchasing power.

2-3x of 1 is still in the same order of magnitude and unlikely to matter.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by autoexec »

apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #19
okbrown wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No.... I take it back, I am a fool! They do publish the stats!! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q3-... My bad!!

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.

Re: The drive stats of Backblaze storage pods

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Post by agumonkey »

qwertox wrote: post #34

We're so lucky that Backblaze creates these reports and shares them openly. That's not normal for companies to do and it's valuable for us consumers to get these insights. Actually I'm referring to their drive stats and not their storage pod stats like in this report. Thank you Backblaze.

Seconded, it's one of the links that I will automatically read in great details.

Thanks indeed.

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