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Google Cloud Ice Cold Archive Storage $1.23/TB
They also say you can access the data instantly, and not wait for retrieval process. What do you think?
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The word "instant" is relative, it has already lost again the local latency to pull files.
How do they define instant?
That part was just interpreted by me. The origina text was 'immediate, low-latency access to your content.'
Ah yea, I see, its apparently not on tape drives.
The usual catch is high transit fees even inside the provider cloud. AWS has something similar that might or might not be on tape, that is $1/TB but the transit costs are ridiculous.
Isn't the cheapest glacier like $4/TB or am I missing something?
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-storage-class-glacier-deep-archive/
per this HN comment the new super cheap tier starts about $1/TB but with very high transfer costs.
high transfer cost = scam!
Reminds me of the Cloud Cameras from Amazon, cheap but the Cloud service cost yearly 80EUR, fuckers.
Interesting, I'll stick to Backblaze though.
Yup... $5/TB + Free bandwidth is unbeatable.
With such a nickname you sure would!
420 blaze it B-)
Hopefully their control panel and billing are better than Amazon's because I still have no idea what I'm paying for because their "click here for a breakdown of your bill" gives me a graph that makes no sense (the amount on the graph doesn't match up with the invoice amount) and I've yet to find a way to see how much Glacier storage I'm using. I'm probably going to stick with Amazon Drive and Google Drive.
I think you are referring to the prediction graph which is really inaccurate. Their bill breakdown works fine for me though:
https://i.imgur.com/x5Md4I3.jpg
They have access to searches, to music listened, to youtube videos, to social networks, to advertising campaigns, they even created psychological profiles, now they want our backups too?
You pay for download bandwidth with backblaze.
Not with CloudFlare
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-and-cloudflare-partner-to-provide-free-data-transfer/
It's Google. I'm pretty sure they want more of your info :P
Right, I guess if you want to get at it that way it's an option.
For me, CF sometimes gives even faster speed due to peering, but I guess the case might differ for those who don't like CF.
Never send anybody your readable files if you don't trust them. Encrypt first, then enjoy the cheap storage.
Thank you for posting that, I checked it and it confirms that the software I'm using it not backing up all of my data to Glacier. Deleting the data off Glacier now to find a better solution.