[ujjain]

It still wouldn't upload my 1TB in back-ups in an entire month. Amazon Drive back-up completed in 3 days.

Their pricing is amazing, but saving money on a back-up solution that doesn't seem as good as the other cloud storage providers is a dangerous game.

[kalleboo]

When I've gone a clean backup on Backblaze it's taken just over 24 hours to backup about 650 GB. And I'm not even in the US, so my data has to cross the pacific.

Backblaze is actually faster than Apple Time Machine is on my LAN which slightly bothers me. It also has lower CPU usage.

I originally chose Backblaze after benchmarking the other offers available at the time (Carbonite, Crashplan etc) and Backblaze was by far the fastest.

[GuB-42]

Not that dangerous if you do your own maths. I don't really trust cloud backup. As they said, the 11 9s doesn't matter. You are more likely to encounter a billing problem (as they said) but also get hacked, have a problem with your internet connection, many things can go wrong.

That's why you need another solution if you are serious about your data, maybe a set of external hard drives (local backup). This way, you have redundancy and little correlation in failure, which greatly improves your general durability. That local storage may be paid with the money you save by getting an "inferior" cloud backup provider.

[fencepost]

Where are you geographically? Was your Amazon upload to a datacenter physically much nearer to you than California? 30MBit/s sustained for 3 days isn't unreasonable for a business connection, but seems high compared to most of what I see available at least in the US.

[brianwski]

Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze and live in California.

> 30MBit/s sustained for 3 days isn't unreasonable for a business

We (Backblaze) are seeing more and more consumer internet connections in the USA with 20 Mbit/sec upstreams, I thought they were available most everywhere if you were willing to upgrade your internet package "just a bit". 30 Mbits is a little unusual for "consumer", but not unheard of. Of course, there is a "selection bias" when you look at online backup users. :-)

[fencepost]

Yes regarding the available speed, but on a consumer connection with Comcast at least if you push 30MBit for 3 days straight you may get a call or at least may start seeing popups in your browser on any http (not https) traffic.

From Comcast: The Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan is a new data usage plan for XFINITY Internet service that provides you with a terabyte (1 TB or 1024 GB) of Internet data usage each month as part of your monthly service. If you choose to use more than 1 TB in a month, we will automatically add blocks of 50 GB to your account for an additional fee of $10 each. Your charges, however, will not exceed $200 each month, no matter how much you use. And, we're offering you two courtesy months, so you will not be billed the first two times you exceed a terabyte.

Also, All customers in locations with an Internet Data Usage Plan receive a terabyte per month, regardless of their Internet tier of service. and The data usage plan does not currently apply to XFINITY Internet customers on our Gigabit Pro tier of service. The plan also does not apply to Business Internet customers, customers on Bulk Internet agreements, and customers with Prepaid Internet.

[anderspitman]

I've found the upload speeds to B2 to be fantastic. Especially if running multiple connections.

[3pt14159]

I use B2 and I have no problems uploading large files quickly. Is this for the consumer option?

[DenisM]

How do you mean? Is upload too slow?