- In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.
- >Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers.
>Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB
Honestly amazing change. The free API changes are going to cut our bills in half. the 95cent increase per TB is totally reasonable.
- B2 has serious performance problems on the US West Coast (and possibly other regions too) in the evenings. Between the hours of around 5 pm to 2am, somewhere between 1% and 5% of requests transfer at <= 1% speed. This is bad because it’s very noticeable to my customers. It’s so predictable that I have a script running in a West Coast VM that pings me whenever the problem occurs - it pings me around 50 times a day.
Despite how predictable and reproducible it is, I’ve had a support ticket open for months with no progress. Having said that, even with this issue, B2 is still better than its (non-hyperscaler) competitors.
- Actually this price increase puts Backblaze B2 behind DigitalOcean's Cold storage which is $0.007/GiB, which equals to $6.5192/TB.
Of course there are other considerations too (e.g. min size is 128KiB and 30-day minimum storage duration), but in some use cases DO Cold storage is now cheaper.
by gingerlime
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Price updates
Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers.* This removes transaction costs and makes it easier to build, scale, and run high-volume workloads subject to our standard platform usage rules and Terms of Service.
Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB.
by mrlonglong
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- What about a Linux backup client?
by marcosscriven
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- I do wish egress were free, it’s one of the reasons I stick with Cloudflare R2 at the moment.
- API call will be free starting May 1, Storage will increase from $6 / TB to $6.95 / TB
- Arq + b2 has been my least-hassle mac backup storage solution by far. Even with this, it's still reasonably priced.
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