Price increases for cloud services are common. There’s inflation, rising management costs, and so on. It’s understandable, but you might be locked in with these companies without any good way to move your data. It’s almost like holding your files for ransom. Backblaze, one of the most popular computer backup services, has announced its first ever price hike. Put down your pitchforks — it’s only going up by a buck from $5 to $6 per month.
Backblaze differs from cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Those are like online hard drives where you can keep whatever files you want. Backblaze, however, is exclusively for backup. The desktop client copies your files to the Backblaze cloud so they can be recovered in the event of hardware damage or loss. It offers various recovery options including traditional downloads and shipping you a hard drive.
- The USB drive options cost $99 and will provide you with 256GB worth of data while the USB hard drive will cost you $189 and can hold up to 8 TB of data. If you cancel your plan and return the storage device, you’ll get a refund. Something users were quite happy with, according to Backblaze reviews. Backblaze Privacy & Security.
- Prices are per computer, plus applicable taxes. MOST POPULAR $ x. YEAR (SAVE $12) $ x. 2-YEAR (SAVE $34) Try it Free. Backup with Peace of Mind. Backblaze backs up all your data by default so there is no need to worry. Backups happen automatically. You can also schedule a backup or only backup when you like. Backblaze has auto.
- USB flash restores cost $99 and can contain up to 256 GB (238,000 MB of data) and USB hard drive restores cost $189 and can contain up to 8 TB max (7,000,000 MB of data). Both include the cost.
When you delete files from your computer, they’ll (eventually) disappear from Backblaze. It saves everything for 30 days, so you can go back and get previous versions of a file or restore something you deleted by accident. You can create “snapshots,” data archives that aren’t connected to files on your computer. This more limited approach to online storage means that Backblaze can offer truly unlimited backup. It has done this for $5 per month since 2008.
Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman says the company has made many enhancements over the years, and storage costs have gone up as people back up more data. Backblaze now holds more than 750,000,000 gigabytes of customer data. All your data will remain safe and sound in Backblaze as long as you’re cool with the modest price increase.
The Backblaze 4U storage pods can save up to 480 TB of user data.
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Pay-as-you-go Storage Cost Comparison Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is priced at $.0059 per GB/month ($5.99 per TB/month). Unlike Amazon S3 and comparable services from Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, Wasabi does not charge for egress or API requests. Backblaze is a pioneer in robust, scalable low cost cloud backup and storage services. Personal online backup to enterprise scale data storage solutions.
Starting March 11th, the monthly price will go up to $6 per month or $60 per year. The two-year plan is going from $95 to $110. If you want to keep the lower price for another 12 months, Backblaze will allow you to buy a new 1-year plan right now at the lower $50 annual price.
The price increase doesn’t affect other Backblaze services like snapshots and data restore options. So, you can still get up to 8TB of your data on a hard drive for under $200. Hopefully, it keeps releasing those awesome hard drive reliability stats, too.
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