File uploads are free so there are no onetime charges. If saved on Backblaze, they would charge me $2.5/month to save the files. In the event of a hard disk failure and if I want to download the entire content, it would be $15 for retrieving the files from S3. $0.02 per 1,000 PUT, COPY, POST or LIST requestsĪ simple math shows that if I backup 40,000 files worth of 5000GB, Amazon would charge me $2/month for saving it and $0.80 onetime for sending the files to S3. The table below shows the price comparison between these two Provider There are two options that I’ve considered, Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2. My use case for Backblaze is to save it as a backup of my external hard disk that is connected to my computer so that in the event of hard disk failure or accidental file corruption, I have a backup in the cloud. This post, however is to talk about B2 and how we can use it for saving hundreds of GBs of data securely for a few dollar a month as a backup solution. Personal backup is mainly targeted for users who need to backup their entire computer with no complexity. However, it is not an option for Personal Backup, where you are forced to backup your primary hard disk at least and you have the option to select additional hard disk partition to the backup list. The main difference between Personal Backup and B2 is that with B2 you are able to send select files or folders to Backblaze servers.

B2 is popular amongst the users of NAS devices due to the integration with NAS storage to automatically backup the files to the cloud. The pricing of the b2 offering is $0.005 GB/Month which is comparable to Amazon S3 Gracier pricing and much lower than Amazon S3 Hot tier pricing. Backblaze offers an application that you have to download and run on your PC or Mac which will continuously upload all the files from your hard disk partitionīackblaze B2 offers low cost object storage to save your files. At the time of writing this article, the price for this service is $7 per month per computer that comes with unlimited backup storage. Backblaze has two products, B2 and Personal Backupīackblaze Personal Backup offers unlimited backup storage to save all the files on one or more hard disk partitions on your Mac and PC.

Backblaze offers cost effective object storage solution that can be used to storage your files securely.

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