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I've just received this E-Mail from Backblaze, announcing a slight increase in storage cost.

In exchange, they offer a free download budget of three times the stored capacity.


Storage Price Increase: Effective October 3, 2023, we are increasing the monthly pay-as-you-go storage rate from $5/TB to $6/TB. The price of B2 Reserve will not change.

Free Egress: Also effective October 3, we’re making egress free (i.e. free download of data) for all B2 Cloud Storage customers—both pay-as-you-go and B2 Reserve—up to three times the amount of data you store with us, with any additional egress priced at just $0.01/GB. Because supporting an open cloud environment is central to our mission, expanding free egress to all customers so they can move data when and where they prefer is a key next

Product Upgrades: From Object Lock for ransomware protection, to Cloud Replication for redundancy, to more data centers to support data location needs, Backblaze has consistently improved B2 Cloud Storage. Stay tuned for more this fall, when we’ll announce upload performance upgrades, expanded integrations, and more partnerships.

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[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How is the personal plan for them? How are they towards.... Alternatively obtained media?

[–] kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I heard mixed reviews ,for example just this morning I was reading about a guy that had an issue with his hard drive and he tried to restore from the backblaze personal app they were a lot of files missing. I personally use B2 which S3 compatible storage, it sound very complicated but they are a lot of tools out there that backup your files to S3.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are ya'll not encrypting your backups before uploading them? Use borg or restic to make proper encryptable and compressable backups before sending them.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not that worried about complexity. More about capacity and egress charges. It's 7$ a month for unlimited storage and no egress on the personal plan VS 5$/TB a month for B2. It would be 20$ a month+ for me to go B2.

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