[wcfields]

Love to see this as well. Part of the selling point of Backblaze as an online backup is the ability to get a FedEx'd hard drive.

I could see this being a practicality for small time video editors, I need to keep copies of old projects, but would be willing to pay $300 to get an overnight hard drive of the files since whatever new project will pay for that cost.

[brianwski]

Up to the first 4 TBytes it is only $189 which includes you keeping the hard drive. I'll make it even better - if you ship us back the hard drive within 30 days (you pay return shipping) we'll refund the entire $189. The info on the program is published here: https://help.backblaze.com/entries/67512970-How-to-order-a-r...

[johntash]

Thanks for the information, I didn't know those drives were refundable! I was always turned off by having to download a huge zip file from backblaze when I wanted to restore something, but this actually sounds really nice of you guys for large datasets.

[brianwski]

We didn't originally offer refundable hard drives. About six months ago we started this quiet experiment of allowing full refunds. We were worried it suddenly make the USB drives hugely attractive and overwhelm the currently deployed servers and Backblaze employees dedicated to the USB restore tasks. :-) It's been a successful test, and now we'll start promoting it more.