#Backblaze cost upgrade#
#Backblaze cost full#
#Backblaze cost software#

The email references supply chain costs, and hard drive prices have been increasing this year, at least in part as a result of Chia mining. In this instance, the price changes make sense.

This price increase mirrors a change that occurred just over two years ago when the monthly price increased from $5 to $6. Current Backblaze customers are also able to purchase an extra year at the lower price. Regardless of the number of hard drives connected to your computer and the amount of data stored on them, unlimited remote backup is only $7 per month.Īnyone hoping to start backing up your files (as you should if you don’t want to lose data) before the price increase can do so before August 16th when the changes take effect. While this change may be disappointing, it is unsurprising given the unlimited nature of the single computer backup plan. The previous $6/month plan is increasing to $7/month, yearly is increasing from $60 to $70, and the $110 two year plan is going to $130. While plan prices will jump next month, Backblaze is giving customers a chance to lock in existing prices for up to two years.

#Backblaze cost upgrade#

Incremental cost to upgrade network speeds (symmetric 500 Mbps minimum).In an email sent to customers today, Backblaze announced that they will be increasing the cost of its unlimited Mac backup plan. Percentage of data downloaded each year, based on the total amount of data The cost each site visit (contract value/number of visits), includes 4 emergency visits (once a quarter)įor each LTO system: Hours spent each week working on LTO based backup/restore/maintenance activities.Īnnual salary + benefits, FTE who manages LTO system(s) - $50/hourĬost of storage per month per GB (Backblaze)

The number of times the tapes are picked up / dropped off each year On-site repair/replace service, next business day, parts and labor, 9x5 coverage. Number of hours to fully load an LTO-8 tape with 24 TB of dataĬost per year for each LTO unit. The number of tapes that can be loaded per day with 1 LTO system

#Backblaze cost full#

Number of tapes needed to do a full backup - Weekly 3, Monthly 3, Annual 1 (up to 24 TB of data per tape)ĭecreasing cost per year of LTO to from Max to MinĬost of a new LTO-8 Eight cartridge autoloader tape with 1 read/write head purchased todayĬost of a new LTO-8 Eight cartridge autoloader tape with 1 read/write head purchased down the road. Number of tapes needed for daily incremental backups (up to 24 TB of data per tape)

#Backblaze cost software#

For Cloud Storage, the data consistency software checks each file every 30 days.Ģ4 TB - the amount of data on 1 LTO Tape assuming 2:1 compression.Cloud Storage Service Level Agreement (SLA) for 99.9% uptime.The cost listed is incremental to any existing cost for Internet network service. Upgraded bandwidth is based on 500 Gbps Verizon FIOS service in major metropolitan areas.Currently only 2% of data stored with Backblaze B2 is downloaded in any given month. Data downloaded is 10% per month of all data stored.The number of tape drives available is sufficient to perform the backup service as follows:.Maintenance contract provides for onsite repair/replacement, next day service, parts and labor, 3 years, 9x5 coverage.Tape drive systems are 8-tape autoloader with a single read/write head, cost is divided over 10 years of system life.LTO tapes are replaced once 1 year unless archived.For LTO backup - the Grandfather-Father-Son backup model is used and does daily incremental backups and weekly, monthly and annual full backups.

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.