This low-cost storage means that the company can offer its $5/month unlimited size backup plan profitably. It currently has more than 150 petabytes of storage. Backblaze has designed (and documented) its storage hardware for the lowest possible cost, using software to provide the necessary protection against failures. We've written about the company's hard disk reliability data a few times over the years the company has found that regular consumer hard drives are more than up to the demands of providing cloud storage, though there is substantial variation between the different manufacturers and models. But where those services charge 2¢ or more per gigabyte per month, Backblaze is pricing its service at just half a cent per gigabyte per month.īackblaze's business is cheap storage. Of the names I haven’t seen before, sCloud appears to have been around for a while (since 2011), and offer some pretty cheap unlimited usage via ftp.Online backup provider Backblaze is branching out today with a new business: an infrastructure-as-a-service-style cloud storage API that's going head to head with Amazon's S3, Microsoft's Azure, and Google Cloud Storage. I know the big players exist (Amazon, Google, MS), but it so far seems like backblaze B2 is the most reasonable priced that would be considered long lasting and reliable, with Wasabi perhaps making more sense if I were commonly needing restores. So, other than being able to run a hash check and occasional restore of some items to double check validity, I don’t intend to pull data, making those costs likely pretty negligible unless I have an actual disaster to recover from. This is to be a remote type backup, just in case the local one goes kaboom at the same time as a source system. My needs are a few TB (and growing due to family photo and documentation hobbies), so “free” several hundred gig sites that exist for a while and then the next one won’t cut it.

I’d probably just use backblaze personal backup, but I’m moving more and more towards linux machines, which they don’t support.

Unfortunately, I no longer keep a system running at my preferred remote location, so I’m now looking at cloud storage to back up to.

I’ve been happily backing up several systems from one location to another via Duplicati to a linux system under my control via ssh for several years now. It has been a while since I was active here.

Backblaze b2 vs glacier