The first 10GB of storage is free, the first 1GB of downloads per day is free.

The difference with B2 comes down to pricing, B2 is only $0.005/GB per month for data storage and only $0.02/GB to download data. This abstraction away from the lower layers of storage and the separation of data from its metadata comes with benefits such as being more efficient thereby reducing the costs compared to typical block-level storage. Unlike the traditional local file system of your PC, where data is managed in a directory hierarchy, Object storage treats data as individual objects. Just like S3, BLOB and the rest – Data stored in B2 is also available for immediate download once uploaded – there are no nearline or offline delays. So, Backblaze takes these Storage Pods a step further for B2, by grouping 20 at a time into a Backblaze Vault it enables them to optimise reliability and durability of the entire system.īackblaze launched B2 back in September 2015 to compete against giants like Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure BLOB, both of whom also enable users and organisations to upload files through APIs or via their browser-compatible URL. I recommend that you go and check out more on these awesome units here. These Backblaze pods, which are now up to revision 6, are literally filled to the brim with hard drives, over 60 of them in fact in a 4U chassis. For example, using 4TB drives, they can achieve a cost per GB as low as $0.036.

Storage pods are designed in-house by Backblaze, leveraging consumer grade hardware and hard drives in a purpose-built chassis designed to minimise costs, reduce footprint and yield the best dollar per GB possible. Backblaze has evolved this object storage service ‘B2’ out of the already successful $5 a month unlimited backup plan which was built from the ground up using Storage Pods. Phase 3 – Configure Veeam Backup Repositoryī2 Cloud Storage is an object storage service offered by Backblaze that enables users and organisations to upload files to their heart’s content billed on a per monthly basis using a pay for what you consume model. Phase 2 – Install and Configure Synology CloudSync

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