A few years ago, I started looking again. Some were okay, others were quickly cancelled. Over the years (decades now), I've used a variety of storage/backup service providers (most of the top 10). It worked okay until you needed to restore, then you ran into bottlenecks and, in the case of Glacier, huge fees. When I ran a tech services company, we used a white label backup app and Amazon S3/Glacier. Is there a better all around option for less money or just pay it and move on?įor many years now, I've been asking that same question. You would need to check this page for a product that fits your needs: Scroll down to see about 100 choices of backup products. If you do choose to save money with Backblaze B2, it will be a little more work and I cannot recommend it if you aren't a fairly knowledgeable computer person.
They value the fixed expected costs, with no overage charges, and zero configuration. Those IT people (and the ones that have no idea how much data they have) value the convenience of not worrying about things if they accidentally backup too much stuff, and are willing to overpay for Backblaze Personal Backup.
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One other group that appreciates a fixed price are professional IT people that don't have time and are too busy to worry about configuring backups carefully. It is fixed price because the target audience is people who don't have any idea how much data they have (computer naive users) and per GByte pricing would stress them out and they would be suspicious of it. To be clear on WHY Backblaze Personal Backup is priced at a "fixed cost": it is not to attract the world's largest data customers. So customers with 3 TBytes get a really unnaturally good deal (subsidized by other customers with less data that are over-paying), and it is over-priced for customers that only have 500 GBytes of data (B2 would only cost them $2.50/month). The Backblaze Personal Backup product is priced at the "average" of what it costs to provide. There is a histogram of Backblaze Personal Backup sizes of all our customers here: You will need to zoom in on that to see the results, but about 85% of Backblaze Personal Backup customers are just wasting money by not moving to Backblaze B2. If you have let's say 3 TBytes of data, you are getting a good deal on Backblaze Personal Backup because (literally) other customers are subsidizing your backups. So if you have less than around 1.3 TBytes you should most definitely move to B2 if cost is what you are concerned about. B2 is a good indicator because it charges "per byte" at about a break even rate. If you lock it in now, it will last for 2 more years which will most likely be LESS money (in 2025 dollars) than the $110 in 2020 dollars.īut the real more important question is whether or not you should move to Backblaze B2 to save money. I used an online inflation calculator and came up with the $110 should be $118.80 just to account for inflation alone. Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest.
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