budmang

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   by budmang 9y ago

   So are you actually running a VM image somewhere and using B2 as a virtual disk drive from it?
2. 32.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Should be a fine use case. B2 is fine for backup, but designed to be used for all sorts of storage use cases. Would be happy to have someone on our team explore with you the specifics of your use case (performance, etc.); You can shoot me a
3. 33.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   I don't know much about Amazon's retail business, but you're spot-on about us focusing on meticulously managing costs. Sometimes people ask how we do it and the hardest part to explain is that the culture of the company is bu
4. 34.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Thanks. Will get that fixed today.
5. 35.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Running Elasticsearch would require compute, which we don't have. However, how often do you run analysis on the data? Would it make sense to move the data to B2 and put back on s3 when it's needed?
6. 36.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Curious - if we open a region in Europe, do people care where?
7. 37.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Got it. Transcoding & making image thumbnails are two common use cases we hear. Thanks.
8. 38.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   Sure. A bit hard to do as a table here, but here it goes: B2 Glacier Storage: $0.005/GB/mo === $0.004-$0.005/GB/mo (by region) Upload: Free === Free + $
9. 39.▲
   by budmang 9y ago

   If you're looking for a NAS, Synology boxes support Backblaze B2 directly via Cloudsync. I know some of their models support Gig E; not sure if all do.
10. 40.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    After you signed up for B2? We're dropping prices for everyone - you too then ;-)
11. 41.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    Tell me more please... is support for the S3 api because you use a product that you want to use with B2? Or you've written your own code to S3 apis?
12. 42.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    Interesting. "rename" is generally not supported by object storage, but an API to "copy with a new name & delete" often is, which allows the same result. I presume that would work? (We're planning to add that in
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    by budmang 9y ago

    What software do you use to actually do the backups/manage them? (Wondering if we'd need to work with someone else to integrate to make that easier for you.)
14. 44.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion (and for being a customer.) We've contemplated adding functionality to send the Backblaze laptop/desktop restore to your Backblaze B2 account. Then you could put multiple restores in a 'snapshot&#x27
15. 45.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    BTW, rclone, duplicati, duplicity, and others now support Backblaze B2: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
16. 46.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    Thanks for the kudos!
17. 47.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    Backblaze has a backup service for laptops/desktops, but our B2 service is actually more like S3 - the data is available without delays or penalties for access. (Unlike Glacier.)
18. 48.▲
    by budmang 9y ago

    I would love to do this. Cross-connects aren't free, but they are certainly less expensive than going out across the Internet. And enabling compute/storage use cases by (possibly) partnering with other providers would be excellent
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    by budmang 9y ago

    We have always tried to squeeze costs out of storage. That required a ton of tech/ops work. Bandwidth it turns out isn't that expensive - seems to just typically be overpriced. Hopefully lowering the price will enable people to do
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    by budmang 10y ago

    Yes, single data center. (Not in an earthquake area, flood zone, etc.) We're currently in the process of signing a second data center close by and expect to have multi-region support in about six months. What are you considering using
21. 51.▲
    by budmang 10y ago

    We're incredibly excited to launch our cloud storage offering out of beta. It's been 9 years since we started Backblaze, 7 since we open sourced our Storage Pod design, 2 since we started working to open the API, 8 months since we
22. 52.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    This was the original blog post where we analyzed hard drive reliability and saw that it followed a bathtub curve: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
23. 53.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    I actually am blown away by the reliability of hard drives. We've found that after 4 years, nearly 80% of hard drives are still working, and the median life is about 6 years: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long
24. 54.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    From our experience, we've found 5 SMART stats that are useful in predicting failure: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/ Many SMART stats aren't particularly useful in predicting fail
25. 55.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    You can also email b2contact at backblaze.
26. 56.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    Good feedback.
27. 57.▲
    by budmang 11y ago

    It's an excellent point. Everyone has to look at their particular use case. If your bandwidth between compute/storage is very high, and the amount you store is very little...staying inside of a provider that offers compute & s
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    by budmang 11y ago

    Those are great services and we actually mention them just a bit lower on the page. In the chart, we're comparing apples-to-apples: real-time cloud storage services. Nearline, S3-IA, and Glacier are all made for 'infrequent access
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    by budmang 11y ago

    Some of the cost-efficiencies are achieved by architecting the software somewhat differently. The most important one is that the user requests and upload URL and then posts to that, which saves us from needing big, expensive load balancers.
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    by budmang 11y ago

    We're definitely reading this ;-) Appreciate the feedback and we'll take a look at that rsync utility. We're also working on a simple client app that will do rsync with B2. We're also starting to work with partners to of