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Backblaze increases storage costs to 0.6ct/GB or 6$/TB, but offers free downloads (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ThetaDev@lemm.ee to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

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

Yes and now imagine that tomorrow your house flood , now you have to download all your data from Backblaze you can be sure that it will be no extra charges for downloading that data.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

If my only option to recover all my data was to restore my cloud backup (which it isn't), I would not want to download TB after TB of data. I'd go with Backblaze's "restore by mail" option and just pay for $189. Any data that's important can't wait weeks to restore anyway.