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That seems harsh. If they really are raising B2 storage prices by 20% having held them unchanged for 7 years then in my country that's not even keeping up with
by Silhouette 3y ago
That seems harsh. If they really are raising B2 storage prices by 20% having held them unchanged for 7 years then in my country that's not even keeping up with inflation. And if they're charging flat rates for their other system but average data volumes have increased a lot - which seems very likely - then again a transparent increase in the pricing isn't unreasonable. The last thing I'd want for a backup service is to end up quietly cutting corners because they are no longer making enough money to do things properly.
- midasuni 3y agoDisk prices per TB are less than half what they were 7 years ago
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- sliken 3y agoSure, but has the cost to own a TB dropped? Power, cooling, rack space, internet bandwidth, DC rental, tech time, health care, janitor, HR, etc. etc. etc.
- theshrike79 3y agoPeople tend to forget that complexity goes up exponentially as the amount of data goes up. Backing up 1TB can be done by anyone, 100TB is still within hobbyist skills. 1PB is Youtuber money. Anything upwards of that with data retention, backups, redundancy and uptime guarantees requires actual professionals who still want to be paid in dollars and not exposure =)
- sliken 3y agoNot to mention I could see backblaze (and more specifically b2 keystore) being IOP limited. Sadly 16TB drives have approximately similar IOPs to 1TB drives.
- paddim8 3y agoThe disks are only a small part of the costs
- Temporary_31337 3y agoSounds like an industry to be disrupted