As a former Arq user, I'm happy to pay BackBlaze $5/month for not ever thinking about the backup problem again, on a bunch of family machines (mostly Macs but a

As a former Arq user, I'm happy to pay BackBlaze $5/month for not ever thinking about the backup problem again, on a bunch of family machines (mostly Macs but a couple of Windows machines as well). No thinking about installing software (e.g., Arq, and finding something equivalent for Windows), keeping that software up to date, checking that it's up and running properly, etc. (BackBlaze tells me when it hasn't been able to reach a given machine after some period.) So, no, I think the SaaS backup industry has nothing to fear from cheap online storage, at least for ordinary folk. (Hackers are a vanishingly small segment of that market.)