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by DanEdge 4332 days ago
Agreed on the awesome post front and one of the reasons I became a customer in the first place. I'm unlikely to renew my annual subscription this year, though, because they don't support external drives/NAS. I don't like cluttering up my laptop with photos so have to transfer everything I need backing up to my rarely used desktop PC, which is a pain. I can understand there's a risk people might abuse networked storage by backing up multiple devices but in my case I wouldn't mind paying more for that service or simply based on actual GBs stored.

Edit: They do support external drives but not NAS. My bad.

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Here's their page on external drives: https://www.backblaze.com/edrive.html
They do support external drives but not network drives. I have a 3 TB external drive attached to my MBA that backs up just fine.
Ugh, sorry. Not sure if that was always the case and I've mis-remembered or there's been a change but my NAS point remains. Personally, I'd rather not faff around with an external drive plugged directly into my laptop.

Edit: typo

Makes sense. Mine is connected through a thunderbolt display so I only have to make/break one connection.