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Thanks for weighing in. I wish it was that fast. I'm a new customer (formerly CrashPlan) uploading about 7TB, mostly photos and videos. Got a 500Mbps up/down li

Thanks for weighing in. I wish it was that fast. I'm a new customer (formerly CrashPlan) uploading about 7TB, mostly photos and videos. Got a 500Mbps up/down line (in theory and in practice), but my daily uploading to Backblaze has never surpassed 30Mbps I've tried both low, medium and max thread numbers. In such a case, could the HDD itself be a bottleneck as it's trying to slice and dice a lot of files large and small? It's running at 70-80% active time. Probably doesn't help that I'm located abroad either..

brianwski 8y ago
> largefiles sliced into small Yes. Backblaze makes a copy locally of all files larger than 30 MBytes, broken into 10 MByte chunks. They’re stored on your “Temporary Scratch Disk” (which you can specify). One hint would be to put your temporary scratch disk on a fast SSD. Personally I can get over 150 Mbits/sec upload, but I am on a PCIe SSD and have excellent latency to the datacenter. The worst case is a 5400 RPM drive powered only by USB, located in New Zealand. They would have trouble hitting even 20 Mbits/sec using the newest 6.0 client with the max of 30 threads.
- Arn_Thor 8y ago
  Because Backblaze doesn't allow program files I'm forced to upload a backup image of my C drive, and since the scratch disk needs to be bigger than the biggest file.. I don't have an SSD big enough. But not to worry, I'll be up to speed in a few weeks