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Neat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage. 1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at
by filleokus 5mo ago
Neat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage.
1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at AWS/GCP only in storage, plus traffic and operations. R2 is slightly cheaper and includes traffic.
Compared to e.g a Google AI plan where you get 5 TB storage for the same price (25 USD/month) + Gemini Pro thrown in.
- nhumrich 5mo agoBackblaze is a lot more affordable
- noveltyaccount 5mo agoYes, and they have features like default soft delete with hard delete after x days that makes it a very compelling backup choice (guard against malware and mistakes). I'm a satisfied customer.
- ValentineC 5mo agoIf only they had data centres in Asia so latency would be better for me.
- TheJoeMan 5mo agoA family member has uploaded a backup of all of the family photos to Amazon Glacial Storage, on the order of a few hundred GB, and gleefully sends me screenshots of the <$1/mo charges.
- skeeter2020 5mo agoAWS Glacier is cold storage, for things like legally mandated retention that you never need to access, or for humans, say digitizing your grandma's 35mm slides. It's not the same use-case as typical file backup, with performance that's probably not acceptable if you want a file (or even a listing) <now>. Good rule of thumb: Glacier is for things that you might need but ideally will never access again.
- TiredOfLife 5mo agoAnd then has to pay hundreds to get the data back
- TheJoeMan 5mo agoRetrieval is $0.03 / GB, so more on the order of 10’s of dollars. This use case is offsite location of the 3-2-1 storage backup rule. I think this is an underserved market with current consumer-facing backup providers.
- lostmsu 5mo agoOne time retrieval is 1.5x times more expensive than HDD that would fit the data.
- mememememememo 5mo agoStop paying for Google, give it to Bezos instead!