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Unless 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 st
by Veratyr 10y ago
Unless 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?