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by cglan 1030 days ago
While a very very useful service that gives me a lot of peace of mind, the price increase is a bit of a bummer (but understandable) and also kind of makes me a teeny bit annoyed at the the fact that it’s unlimited.

Unlimited basically means I’m subsidizing people who are storing 50tb of content on their home machine, and also incentivizing people like me to store stupid shit because otherwise I’m wasting money. While it’s allowed under the rules, I’d rather pay less for a set storage limit that is priced sustainably than play the unlimited vacation policy type game.

Idk, some top of mind thoughts. Misty annoyed that everything in my life is getting expensive

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Yev from Backblaze here -> Wanted to touch on something you mentioned: if you don't have a lot of data, you might want to look into B2 Cloud Storage with one of the many backup integrations to back up your computer. It'll be $6/GB/Month, which may end up being more economical: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/integrations
$6/GB/Month or $6/TB/Month?
> service that gives me a lot of peace of mind

I actually was deciding on this, and checked reddit, found many horror stories how data silently disappeared without chance of recovery, and opted for home nas..