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Backblaze B2 and Backblaze's Personal Backup product are completely different and have completely different pricing strategies and customers. B2 is priced at $5

by aseipp 3y ago

Backblaze B2 and Backblaze's Personal Backup product are completely different and have completely different pricing strategies and customers. B2 is priced at $5/TB/mo in storage, so this is 2x that. But the service also has to cover API costs and transit egress fees, so you can't just run it exactly at market price, either. I guess you could just put all your music on a Personal Backup account and use whatever music player you want, but the whole point is that you're kind of paying money for the web UI, for it to be always online and available, etc. I don't even know if Personal Backup will let you do things like shallow copies of subsets of your backups, which would be necessary to get music on multiple devices. Why copy your 1TB music collection to 5 computers? How do you get it on mobile, etc.

chimeracoder 3y ago
Yes, I get that this adds value on top of Backblaze (e.g. Dropbox is not just rsync), though even then, usually services that resell or build on top of an established commodity product (e.g. storage) model their own pricing models off of the underlying commodity, which is why I was surprised. But I didn't realize that Backblaze B2 had a completely different pricing scheme. This makes more sense now.