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Neat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage. 1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at
by filleokus 6mo ago
Neat! Pricing wise it might not always make sense though to use the commercial blob storages, especially for solo usage.
1 TB is roughly 20-30 USD per month at AWS/GCP only in storage, plus traffic and operations. R2 is slightly cheaper and includes traffic.
Compared to e.g a Google AI plan where you get 5 TB storage for the same price (25 USD/month) + Gemini Pro thrown in.
- nhumrich 6mo agoBackblaze is a lot more affordable
- noveltyaccount 6mo agoYes, and they have features like default soft delete with hard delete after x days that makes it a very compelling backup choice (guard against malware and mistakes). I'm a satisfied customer.
- ValentineC 6mo agoIf only they had data centres in Asia so latency would be better for me.
- TheJoeMan 6mo agoA family member has uploaded a backup of all of the family photos to Amazon Glacial Storage, on the order of a few hundred GB, and gleefully sends me screenshots of the <$1/mo charges.
- skeeter2020 6mo agoAWS Glacier is cold storage, for things like legally mandated retention that you never need to access, or for humans, say digitizing your grandma's 35mm slides. It's not the same use-case as typical file backup, with performance that's probably not acceptable if you want a file (or even a listing) <now>. Good rule of thumb: Glacier is for things that you might need but ideally will never access again.
- TiredOfLife 6mo agoAnd then has to pay hundreds to get the data back
- TheJoeMan 6mo agoRetrieval is $0.03 / GB, so more on the order of 10’s of dollars. This use case is offsite location of the 3-2-1 storage backup rule. I think this is an underserved market with current consumer-facing backup providers.
- lostmsu 6mo agoOne time retrieval is 1.5x times more expensive than HDD that would fit the data.
- mememememememo 6mo agoStop paying for Google, give it to Bezos instead!