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Wasabi.com Storage 1TB-$58/yr | S3 compatible Cloud Storage
Has anyone used wasabi.com cloud storage
They have S3 compliant access protocol Cloud Storage and is coming cheap for 1TB @ $4.99/mo or $58/yr
rClone also supports it so I guess it can be a good backup storage option for servers.
Please share your experiences... Thx
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I doubt this is a question. It looks like an ads.
There's been some discussion of it in the past. Reports are kind of mixed. "Unlimited" egress is a red flag.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/search?Search=wasabi.com
I'd go for backblaze b2 over wasabi because for the same price,
Some pro's of wasabi over backblaze might be
In the end, for backup, I'd recommend backblaze over wasabi.
Disclaimer: I'm a backblaze b2 customer. I've just tried wasabi for their free 1T trial. I did my research a while ago and this information might not be up-to-date.
Edit: I quickly searched r/datahoarder for b2 vs wasabi and came across this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6r31xn/b2_cloud_vs_wasabi_storage/
Thx @Jun,
Last time I check B2, it felt complicated to understand the parameters, what is charged (like downloads, etc.) so I gave up on reading. Will surely take a look again.
What about pricing... is B2 comparable to Wasabi's pricing ?
For storage, B2 and wasabi costs the same. Wasabi used to be cheaper when they tried to compete with b2, soon learned that it is not sustainable. If you plan on making heavy API calls or downloads, B2 might cost you slightly more, while wasabi doesn't have additional charge on it. Again, it heavily depends on use case and I recommend backblaze b2 over wasabi for backup purpose only.
I haven't looked into b2's API's because I use API wrappers for backup such as b2 and rclone. However, if you are planning to develop an application using their API, I'd go for wasabi for development and S3 for deployment, since their API's are compatible and no serious data is stored behind the black box. I wouldn't go for neither backblaze nor wasabi for any serious business.
Wasabi is way cheaper if data is actually downloaded. It's $5/TB with "unlimited" download (egress). There's the other (older, original, I think?) plan that's $4/TB, but I think it's $0.04 per GB downloaded. So I don't think their pricing has changed, unless I'm wrong.
I went with Wasabi because I don't have to think about restoring some data according to their current pricing model. And I can actually verify the backup is correct, meaning Arq can read all of the data on Wasabi and checksum it, which should match my local copy.
I use it for my personal stuff right now. It's object storage for the more average consumer, at prices that are more easily understood by a larger audience. Basically this is to S3 what Dropbox is to having an sshfs mount.
Just so that other readers are not misled, Wasabi's standard storage is geo-redundant. Not sure how many 9's it changes, but I think it should qualify for 11 9's.
11 9's is ludicrous no matter how redundant.
Wait, how can it be geo-redundant? Their first location was in Virginia. They just added Washington state.
In August, I believe they're going to add the option for geo-redundancy (Virginia and Washington state).
Indeed... 11 9s is less than 316 microseconds of downtime per year.
For reference: Azure's storage SLA is 3 9s
Only problem for backblaze b2 is that their european speeds suck unless you use multiple connections. Using rclone on a single file from my ISP in the UK, i only get 0.5Mbit/sec. My servers at OVH get around 5Mbit/sec
Those 11 9s are for the data durability not uptime of the service.
Source? I recall wasabi representative on reddit saying that they do have two datacenters however the data is NOT geo-redundant, just like Backblaze. Besides, AWS S3 keeps three full copies of files in three different datacenters, at least one in different continent. Neither backblaze nor wasabi (parity copy on the same datacenter) is no close match to S3.
I'm not a pro in this field and I don't trust SLA in general. My point is that Wasabi's SLA and their advertisement regarding it (saying that they are safer than Backblaze, as safe as Amazon) is immoral.
That's why both backblaze and wasabi provides you free trial. There is speed difference however not significant from where I live therefore I recommended backblaze. I recently had a chance to go back to Korea shortly and figured out Wasabi is way faster from Korea as well. YMMV.
I tried their free trial for two days and decided it was too slow for me.
So far I've been using duplicity with B2 which is adequately quick, like 10-20mb/s - with Wasabi (duplicity S3 backend) I got 500kb/s. Unbearably slow. (me and my servers are in europe)
I've let it make a full backup over night which didn't even finish when I checked in the morning whereas B2 only needed like 3 hours at most.
Also I don't like the way S3 ACLs/IAM work, maybe because I never bothered to learn it properly, but that's just my opinion in general/not specific to this one provider.
Is this blog they say
https://wasabi.com/blog/wasabi-debuts-u-s-west-coast-new-data-center-hillsboro-oregon/
When the EU DC opens up later this year, I think then you will have your data stored on a different continent!
So, they MAY provide such options in the future. Interesting. They're still not transparent about how they store data and it is safe to assume that the data is NOT geo-redundant until they explicitly say so. However, this surely is a interesting news. I'll definitely follow up with wasabi. Thanks for the pointer.