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I'm sure there tired of consumers taking advantage of the unlimited storage by storing PB's of data, and losing $$$. Amazon basically did the same thing recent

I'm sure there tired of consumers taking advantage of the unlimited storage by storing PB's of data, and losing $$$. Amazon basically did the same thing recently removing unlimited storage. Business data is more a bit more predictable with storage needs and really makes alot more money. I dumped crashplan a few years ago due to the bandwidth restrictions and time it would take to download TB's worth of data, built my own solution with a remote Synology nas. It's a real cost issue once you have more than 1-2TB of data, otherwise it's just easier to use gdrive or dropbox for most needs.

porker 9y ago
> Amazon basically did the same thing recently removing unlimited storage. I'm working out what to do next since they did this. I use Arq (https://arqbackup.com https://arqbackup.com) and back up my desktop (Windows) and laptop (OSX) to Amazon Cloud Drive. Together it's approx 1.5TB of backups - and this is excluding a bunch of folders and accepting data loss on them. The doubled price doesn't appeal, but I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range.
- ValentineC 9y ago
  > I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range. For pay-as-you-go storage, I found this: http://coststorage.com/ http://coststorage.com/
mhb 9y ago
I'm sure there tired of consumers taking advantage of the unlimited storage by storing PB's of data I don't see how this makes sense. Instead of closing the whole service they can set a limit which will probably satisfy 95% of the users who aren't using enough storage to make it unprofitable. So I assume this isn't the reason.
- sumoboy 9y ago
  I don't know for sure why crashplan ceased but I recall reading here on HN that someone happily posted they were using like 16+ PB's on Amazon drive which is insane, I'm sure plenty more abused it but in reality that much space is quite a few average users I'm sure. Crashplan could have created some sort tiered pricing structure for those using over 5-10 TB possibly but to build up your service and brand and dump it suddenly is really un-trusting. I wouldn't be surprised they just ran out of data center capacity and decided cutting loose low revenue consumers was cheaper than building out new space.

porker 9y ago

> Amazon basically did the same thing recently removing unlimited storage. I'm working out what to do next since they did this. I use Arq (https://arqbackup.com https://arqbackup.com) and back up my desktop (Windows) and laptop (OSX) to Amazon Cloud Drive. Together it's approx 1.5TB of backups - and this is excluding a bunch of folders and accepting data loss on them. The doubled price doesn't appeal, but I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range.

ValentineC 9y ago
> I haven't found an up-to-date storage price calculator to see what my options are in the TB range. For pay-as-you-go storage, I found this: http://coststorage.com/ http://coststorage.com/

mhb 9y ago

I'm sure there tired of consumers taking advantage of the unlimited storage by storing PB's of data I don't see how this makes sense. Instead of closing the whole service they can set a limit which will probably satisfy 95% of the users who aren't using enough storage to make it unprofitable. So I assume this isn't the reason.

sumoboy 9y ago
I don't know for sure why crashplan ceased but I recall reading here on HN that someone happily posted they were using like 16+ PB's on Amazon drive which is insane, I'm sure plenty more abused it but in reality that much space is quite a few average users I'm sure. Crashplan could have created some sort tiered pricing structure for those using over 5-10 TB possibly but to build up your service and brand and dump it suddenly is really un-trusting. I wouldn't be surprised they just ran out of data center capacity and decided cutting loose low revenue consumers was cheaper than building out new space.