![]() Backblaze proves it is financially secure. Your landlord must be financially secure so your building isn’t foreclosed on and you don’t get locked out. Choosing a cloud storage provider is a bit like choosing an apartment to rent. From building our own storage servers, to building our own storage software and detailing the costs of our business. ![]() Backblaze has never raised significant investment capital, preferring to build a sustainable business using customer revenue and being very open about how the service is fairly priced. Sustainable: Backblaze has been in business for 12 years and manages 700 PB of data for over 500,000 customers. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is 1/4 the price of Amazon S3 for storage and 1/9th the price for downloads. Uploads are completely free while downloads are only $0.01 per GB. Pricing: is meant to be affordable: storage is $0.005 per GB/Month or roughly $5/TB/month. And, getting started only takes a few minutes. You pay only for what you use - there are no minimum storage amounts, minimum storage days, retention periods or other fine print. We don’t have complicated storage tiers that are hard to understand. Accessing your account via our website is easy. Simplicity: everything about B2 is designed to be simple to use. We’re seeing quite a bit of competition in the cloud storage space, how does B2 set itself apart?īackblaze sets itself apart in three ways: Simplicity, Price and Sustainability. Files are available for uploading or downloading at any time, either through the Backblaze website, hundreds of third party integrations, including Comet Backup, or via the B2 API. For those people living under a rock, can you give us a quick intro to Backblaze B2?īackblaze B2 is a cloud storage service for data storage. Since then we've heard nothing but love from their users about what they do and with the most recent announcement of securing a $15m equipment lease line to help with expansion, we put a bunch of questions to Partner Program Manager James Fleishman. Even with all of those disks, this setup really is only going to be suitable for sequential and streaming workloads.One of the earliest cloud storage companies we included support for was Backblaze B2 storage. Why can I say this? I've had to administer Backblaze units and personally own a Sun x4540 full of SATA disks ( meh). We rarely hear about Windows Storage Spaces here, so my guess is that the industry mindshare is low. In reality, your issues will probably be SATA disk timeouts, failed drives, controller issues (firmware), power and cooling, vibration. You may want more RAM, but I don't know the specifics of how WSS leverages physical memory. Your CPU is what I normally spec in ZFS storage systems. Advanced filesystems luckily don't need much CPU horsepower.How will you get data onto and off of the server? If anything, that would be your try bottleneck.If random read/write performance is important, this is the wrong solution.If the purpose is some other application with a relatively small working set, I'm assuming it can be handled at the SSD caching layer.If the purpose is backups, why do the specific IOPS matter?.When people talk about large datasets, the application is usually backup or something where the active working set of data is just a subset of the data on disk.You're using a bunch of capacity-optimized disks, so whatever you're doing seems like it involves a large amount of data.And this is generic advice the same for a Windows Storage Spaces solution, versus ZFS, versus traditional filesystems. It really depends on what you'll be doing with the system.
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