When we upload documents and data to Backblaze, they have to figure out how to store it. A “cloud” is just a fancy term for someone else’s computer. – you might not often think about the platform that’s powering them. Upgrading from 10Gbase-T to 10GbE SFP+ Optical Networking.įor those of us that use services like Backblaze, iCloud, Dropbox, etc.Updating the Power Supply Units, perhaps moving to one unit.Upgrade the CPU and consider using an AMD CPU.Here is a shortlist of some of the features they are looking at:
Backblaze has Storage Pod 7.0 on the drawing board. Of course, like any technology company, they aren’t stopping. It is fair to say that ten years out, things worked out in our favor, as we currently have about 900 petabytes of storage in production on the platform. It’s hard to determine which of these three features offended and/or excited more people. Version 1.0 introduced or popularized three fundamental changes to storage design 1) you could build a system out of commodity parts and it would work, 2) you could mount hard drives vertically and they would still spin, and 3) you could use consumer hard drives in the system. The Backblaze Storage Pod was more than just affordable data storage. When you take into account that the average amount of data per user has nearly tripled in that same time period and our price is now $6/month for unlimited storage, the math works out about the same for everyone as it did in 2009. Storage Pod 1.0 allowed us to store one petabyte of data for about $81,000, today we’ve lowered that to about $35,000 with Storage Pod 6.0. We decided to build our own storage servers when it became apparent if we were to use the other solutions available, we’d have to charge a whole lot more money. Our goal was to charge $5/month for unlimited data storage for one computer.
Over on the Backblaze blog, they recapped some of the history.īack in 2007, when we started Backblaze, there wasn’t a whole lot of affordable choices for storing large quantities of data. In September 2009, their red 4U storage server came equipped with 45 hard drives with 67 terabytes of storage for just $7,867. With Backblaze, you can download all of your files, or have them mailed to you on a USB drive. If you have a fire, flood, or theft, a local Time Machine backup might not be useable.
Today, Backblaze has announced the tenth anniversary of the first release of the Backblaze Storage Pod.īackblaze offers unlimited backup (including attached USB drives) for only $6 per month. I’ve been a subscriber for many years, and I have no plans of leaving anytime soon. While cloud-backups weren’t new to me when I came across them, having a native macOS app for a cloud-backup service was something I knew I wanted. I’ve been a big fan of Backblaze for years now.
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