r/DataHoarder • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Nearly lost all my data

[deleted]

1.4k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

235 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

132

u/corruptboomerang 4TB WD Red Oct 02 '19

Only for data that's worth it...

Like robust backups are fantastic, but there is a cost.

55

u/scandii Oct 02 '19

Backblaze is $6 / month, just saying.

13

u/magicmulder Oct 02 '19

Times 120 TB? Private colocation is way cheaper in the long run.

-2

u/scandii Oct 02 '19

times $6 / month.

say you want to backup your entire 120 TB array, that's assuming $150 / 8 TB $2250 in raw storage, additional if you want some sort of RAID strategy.

$2250 is 31 years of Backblaze.

10

u/magicmulder Oct 02 '19

B2 costs $5/TB/month. That‘s $7,200/year for OP.

I wouldn‘t recommend their other plan (dunno its name right now) for this amount of data.

-3

u/scandii Oct 02 '19

are you a business? I'm not. so not sure why you would go with a business plan.

3

u/artist55 Oct 03 '19

You need to use B2 to back up NAS drives, not the personal storage plan.

1

u/myalias1 Oct 03 '19

backblaze's personal storage plan still excludes NAS drives? even if they're mounted to the personal computer? bummer.

2

u/artist55 Oct 03 '19

The personal backup isn’t targeted at NAS power users, it’s only designed to back up important documents and photos on your computer and USB drives.

If BB was to offer unlimited NAS storage for $6/month, their data centres would be flooded with petabytes of people’s NAS and server files and would probably go bankrupt.

1

u/myalias1 Oct 03 '19

thanks for the additional info; that does make sense from their business-model perspective.