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Pricing can be funny! Total Data Stored Monthly Downloads Cost 1TB 1000TB $119,712/yr 1000TB 100

Pricing can be funny! Total Data Stored Monthly Downloads Cost 1TB 1000TB $119,712/yr 1000TB 1000TB $72,000/yr What is the cheapest TDS for a given 1000TB monthly downloads? Seems to be: 334TB 1000TB $24,048/yr So there are situations where uploading dummy files that pad with zeros will reduce your bill. --- Edit: The 334 now seems obvious when you consider: * Egress is $10/TB * Store is $6/TB Free Egress is 3x monthly data store. So egress costs $6/TB when you get it 'free' vs $10/TB, so you need it all free to get the cheapest egress, which means you need 1/3 storage that is egress. Any higher and your wasting money on storage!

throwaway2037 3y ago
From the very top, this is great analysis. I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. Also, I do expect that Backblaze's lifetime egress costs per drive far exceed the TCO for the drive (minus egress). Zero trolling: It would great to see some commentary directly from Backblaze on this matter -- for example, explain that egress is very expensive. EDIT Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?
- metadaddy 3y ago
  Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Pulling the egress costs from the hyperscalers' storage pricing pages: * Amazon S3 ranges from $50-$90/TB depending on monthly volume. * Google Cloud Storage ranges from $80-$230/TB depending on monthly volume and where you're transferring data to/from. * Azure Blob Storage ranges from $40-$181/TB (with the First 100GB/month free) depending on monthly volume and whether you route data via the Microsoft Premium Global Network. Cloudflare published a blog post a couple of years ago explaining just how much money AWS makes on egress - customers are paying up to 80x Amazon's costs: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress > I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. It depends on what "very low" means. We have a capacity-based pricing option, Backblaze B2 Reserve, starting at 20 TB, that includes all egress and transaction fees.
  - throwaway2037 3y ago
    Pat Patterson: Hat tip! Thank you for the excellent follow-up. In short, your prices of 10 USD / TB are a steal according to your data. Keep up the great work. I'm not yet a customer, but I will be very soon.

throwaway2037 3y ago

From the very top, this is great analysis. I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. Also, I do expect that Backblaze's lifetime egress costs per drive far exceed the TCO for the drive (minus egress). Zero trolling: It would great to see some commentary directly from Backblaze on this matter -- for example, explain that egress is very expensive. EDIT Above, you wrote that egress is 10 USD / TB. What are egress costs for Amazon, Google, and Microsoft?

metadaddy 3y ago
Full disclosure - I am Chief Technical Evangelist at Backblaze. Pulling the egress costs from the hyperscalers' storage pricing pages: * Amazon S3 ranges from $50-$90/TB depending on monthly volume. * Google Cloud Storage ranges from $80-$230/TB depending on monthly volume and where you're transferring data to/from. * Azure Blob Storage ranges from $40-$181/TB (with the First 100GB/month free) depending on monthly volume and whether you route data via the Microsoft Premium Global Network. Cloudflare published a blog post a couple of years ago explaining just how much money AWS makes on egress - customers are paying up to 80x Amazon's costs: https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress > I wonder if they are willing to strike a deal if you need relatively high egress, but very low storage. It depends on what "very low" means. We have a capacity-based pricing option, Backblaze B2 Reserve, starting at 20 TB, that includes all egress and transaction fees.
- throwaway2037 3y ago
  Pat Patterson: Hat tip! Thank you for the excellent follow-up. In short, your prices of 10 USD / TB are a steal according to your data. Keep up the great work. I'm not yet a customer, but I will be very soon.