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Backblaze alternative reddit10/10/2023 So if you were going to spin up a backup system, but that backup system would run in the same datacenter as the primary copy of the data, that's a problem. Oh, finally, Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 are "offsite". But if it rises up to be a budget line item, consider various cost savings measures. It might be there is a rule of thumb like if "outsourced storage is less than half of 1% of total company budget" then maybe you just keep outsourcing it to Amazon S3 or Backblaze B2 because we'll probably do a good job and you don't have to worry about it. ![]() The providers like Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 can still keep their lives MORE SIMPLE for a small premium. I'm not sure what that amount of storage is, but if a company out there has 10 Petabytes they probably should consider hiring a couple people and building it themselves, monitor it themselves, etc. I think you are absolutely correct at over some amount of storage. At less than 50 TBytes and if storage isn't already a core competency of a company, the company can't afford to hire people to focus on their storage like we can. ![]() We have redundant network providers, and employees that know how to compensate when one of the providers drops a link for a few hours. We have employees FULL TIME focused on the uptime for the service. We are monitoring for that, we have tooled up for that. ![]() Companies like Amazon S3 and Backblaze B2 have trained employees replacing failed drives 7 days a week, pretty much within an hour of when they fail. I just don't think it makes ANY sense to spin up local storage for a company and worry about it for less than say 50 TBytes. Personally, I think there is a sweet spot for cloud storage in total storage required. For comparison, on-premise HDDs are $8/TB NRC + $0.10/TB MRC (electricity cost to keep it spinning) Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze so I'm biased and you should keep me honest.
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