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Speaking for myself, I'm excited about using B2 as a replacement for more expensive local disk in not-heavy-iops-role machines. It's not the most exotic use, b
by loxias 10y ago
Speaking for myself, I'm excited about using B2 as a replacement for more expensive local disk in not-heavy-iops-role machines. It's not the most exotic use, but if you look at every vm provider (linode, digital ocean, even amazon) the prices of local disk are huge in comparison to the prices of cloud storage like B2 & S3.
By combining them I can have a cheap box (Linode for instance) with a local write cache, with B2 providing a terabyte of raw storage, and get a slow but effective VM with a 1TB "local disk" for under $20 month. Which is great.
- Veratyr 10y agoUnless you're going to be doing pretty much entirely sequential reads of entire files, I don't think this is likely to work well for you. B2 (and other cloud storage) isn't just priced by bandwidth but by "transactions" (requests).
- loxias 10y agoIt's true, there is a price for some API requests, but it's actually quite low if you're using the cloud storage to populate a local cache! Backblaze categorizes download as a "class B" transaction with 2500 free per day and $0.004/10k. I fully admit it's not a suitable solution for many workloads, but I've been playing with a VM using B2 as slow additional disk (as an additional volume, not suggesting putting / or /usr..) and am yet to exceed the free tier.
- budmang 10y agoSo are you actually running a VM image somewhere and using B2 as a virtual disk drive from it?