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> you’ve been losing out in real terms because of inflation for years This is inaccurate. If you break down inflation into its constituents electronics, storag
by neximo64 7y ago
> you’ve been losing out in real terms because of inflation for years
This is inaccurate. If you break down inflation into its constituents electronics, storage, transfers and cpu have gone down dramatically. An increase of 5 to 6 is 20%, which is far more than 10 years of inflation, even if you account for it being averaged.
I don't know how I can read this as anything but spin. Good on ya guys for increasing prices but don't give it out as spin.
- prawn 7y agoAnd if the data stored by users has grown significantly in that time? I know the amount they store for me would've at least doubled since I started as a customer: core laptop drive, then I have 3-4 externals I regularly connect.
- gowld 7y agoYou may have overlooked or forgotten that Backblaze charges a flat rate per client device, not per gigabyte stored or transferred.
- mthoms 7y agoThat's only a small part of the picture. The amount of storage each customer occupies has probably gone up considerably in the same time frame. I know my HD size (and backup usage) has quadrupled over 10 years. And don't forget that the cost of salaries, rents, electricity, professional services, marketing and well, pretty much everything aside from bandwidth and hardware have gone up. In some cases rather dramatically.