Personally, I have about 10TB of data stored on Backblaze from one of my computers, and with recent performance increases, I certainly won’t be leaving any time soon. By default, Backblaze keeps a 30-day history of versions for files that have been backed up but have been updated, changed, or deleted from your computer or external drives. The price increases of Backblaze have also hardly exceeded inflation. Miners have been buying up hard drives and SDDs, despite the limited profitability of Chia mining.īackblaze explains the change and their justification in more detail in a blog post. Chia is a cryptocurrency, similar to Bitcoin, but rather than relying on processing power to earn them, it relies on storage space. Online backup firm (and TidBITS sponsor) Backblaze has announced a price increase for its unlimited backup service, raising the monthly cost by 1. The email references supply chain costs, and hard drive prices have been increasing this year, at least in part as a result of Chia mining. Backblaze is priced as a base level of 6 / month (or 60 / year or 110 / 2 years) per device with Acronis, in comparison, having multiple pricing options depending upon the number of devices being backed up and the amount of included cloud storage (if any) included within the plan. In this instance, the price changes make sense. This price increase mirrors a change that occurred just over two years ago when the monthly price increased from $5 to $6. Current Backblaze customers are also able to purchase an extra year at the lower price. Backblaze B2 is a cloud storage solution that provides high performance data storage at one fourth the cost of leading cloud storage providers: US 0.005/GB/month for storage, free uploads, and US 0.01/GB for downloads. Regardless of the number of hard drives connected to your computer and the amount of data stored on them, unlimited remote backup is only $7 per month.Īnyone hoping to start backing up your files (as you should if you don’t want to lose data) before the price increase can do so before August 16th when the changes take effect. While this change may be disappointing, it is unsurprising given the unlimited nature of the single computer backup plan. See the latest ratings, reviews and troubleshooting tips written by technology professionals. The previous $6/month plan is increasing to $7/month, yearly is increasing from $60 to $70, and the $110 two year plan is going to $130. Find Backblaze Business Backup specifications and pricing. Backblaze has the following pricing plans. While plan prices will jump next month, Backblaze is giving customers a chance to lock in existing prices for up to two years. Backblaze Business Backup is a server backup management software that helps. However, Backblaze is not designed as an additional storage system when you run out of space. Just in case, Backblaze will even keep multiple versions of that file for up to 30 days by default. Thus, we will keep a remote backup of any file that exists on your computer. In an email sent to customers today, Backblaze announced that they will be increasing the cost of its unlimited Mac backup plan. The Backblaze service is designed to protect the files you care about.
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