<p dir="ltr">I ended up going with AWS s3 for now. I'm under four gigs for my server as we stand and I have free tier for a year. I'll reassess later. May even roll my own open stack or something or look into colocation. I just need a metric assload of storage and a pipe going to it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any one wanna rent me a 1u spot in a data center somewhere?</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 25, 2016 15:03, "Todd Millecam" <<a href="mailto:tyggna@gmail.com">tyggna@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Backblaze has two creative advantages that keep their costs low:<br><br></div>1) they do their own metal fabrication and make their own server chassis<br></div>2) they use solely consumer-grade commodity hard drives<br><br></div>As a result, 2TB of data storage for them is $50 with a MTBF of 3 years. I don't believe they do any mirroring, just parody as well. So, unlike many other backup providers there is an actual risk that your data could disappear due to multiple drive failures.<br><br></div>However, these guys are the big data of hard drive failures and basically publish who's the best at reliability in the hdd realm (HGST has been king for a while). They do pretty good work with their arrays.<br><br></div>Also, they've open-sourced their 4U chassis design (it's call the blazepod) and you can build one yourself (stores about 250TB of data when built) for about $300-500 plus the cost of drives. Seek time is awful, but this is solely a cold-storage solution.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Anon Anon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lokotejones@gmail.com" target="_blank">lokotejones@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I am hearing that they throttle the shit out of up and down. Plus some mysterious hidden fee for downloads. Word of mouth from another programmer.</p><div class="m_-7884869573366590045HOEnZb"><div class="m_-7884869573366590045h5">
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 25, 2016 2:26 PM, "Tom Roche" <<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com" target="_blank">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Stephen Partington[1]<br>
> <a href="https://secure.backblaze.com/buy.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://secure.backblaze.com/b<wbr>uy.htm</a><br>
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I'd appreciate someone enlightening me regarding Backblaze's business model. Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard, but when I see ...<br>
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<a href="https://secure.backblaze.com/buy.htm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://secure.backblaze.com/b<wbr>uy.htm</a><br>
> Unlimited Data for your Mac and PC. [5 $/mo, 50 $/yr.] Prices are per computer.<br>
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... my bullshit meter pegs. I'm guessing Backblaze's reasoning/practice is like that pioneered by various ISPs and telcos who promise "unlimited data" transfers to users: if any particular user's data transfers exceed some threshold, throttle their data rate. A data storage provider would modify that to something like, "sure, you can *try* to store more than [threshold quantity] of data here, but your backup transfer rate will go to hell, and restore? fuggedaboudit."<br>
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Or am I just ignorant of some great technological advance made, and of the service to humanity provided, by Backblaze?<br>
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HTH, Tom Roche <<a href="mailto:Tom_Roche@pobox.com" target="_blank">Tom_Roche@pobox.com</a>><br>
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