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Backblaze is operating at their own economy of scale with dedicated deals with suppliers, custom bare bones hardware, optimized processes, etc. It's always more

Backblaze is operating at their own economy of scale with dedicated deals with suppliers, custom bare bones hardware, optimized processes, etc. It's always more expensive starting out as a little company for raw hardware and processes until you're big enough and mature enough to get the deals and processes in place. That is also not the only service that Backblaze offers and wasn't their first. It could be that B2 is simply a way for them to offset their cost for extra capacity and are running it effectively near-cost for them.

Aeolun 7y ago
If all their other customers on the $5/month unlimited backup plan store less than 1TB, but since it’s really aggressive about backing up everything (no, please don’t back up my steam games) on your computer I think they go over that.
- chx 7y ago
  Don't forget the vast amount of notebooks with SSDs that have less than 1TB storage to begin with.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  Here's the histogram from their AMA: https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg About a third of the users are under 100GB. Another third is under 500GB. 13% from 500GB to 1TB. 9% from 1TB to 2TB. 8% from 2TB to 5TB. 5% above that. And they cited raw costs of over $3.50 per TB. But of course that's with real datacenters and non-shoddy equipment.
- dannyw 7y ago
  Backblaze deduplicates data right? So it doesn’t really cost them anything to back up your steam games.
  - jan6 7y ago
    they'd probably charge you the same anyway, even if THEY get it at basically free ;)
  - lucb1e 7y ago
    They can't deduplicate properly encrypted data, that will have to happen client-side. So while they can deduplicate your data (if you have a copy of a picture in multiple places or maybe even a game installed on multiple machines), it won't work across users.
  - Aeolun 7y ago
    In that case I’d also expect them to skip uploading the data, but everything is uploaded.

Aeolun 7y ago

If all their other customers on the $5/month unlimited backup plan store less than 1TB, but since it’s really aggressive about backing up everything (no, please don’t back up my steam games) on your computer I think they go over that.

chx 7y ago
Don't forget the vast amount of notebooks with SSDs that have less than 1TB storage to begin with.
Dylan16807 7y ago
Here's the histogram from their AMA: https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iVEuwUT.jpg About a third of the users are under 100GB. Another third is under 500GB. 13% from 500GB to 1TB. 9% from 1TB to 2TB. 8% from 2TB to 5TB. 5% above that. And they cited raw costs of over $3.50 per TB. But of course that's with real datacenters and non-shoddy equipment.
dannyw 7y ago
Backblaze deduplicates data right? So it doesn’t really cost them anything to back up your steam games.
- jan6 7y ago
  they'd probably charge you the same anyway, even if THEY get it at basically free ;)
- lucb1e 7y ago
  They can't deduplicate properly encrypted data, that will have to happen client-side. So while they can deduplicate your data (if you have a copy of a picture in multiple places or maybe even a game installed on multiple machines), it won't work across users.
- Aeolun 7y ago
  In that case I’d also expect them to skip uploading the data, but everything is uploaded.