This is really greedy imo. Even with inflation the price of storage per gb has decreased by ~90% since 2009. Big downside to being so vendor locked in. It’s not like I can use something like b2 buckets as a replacement.
Has backblaze ever lowered their prices in the entire history of the company? I don’t think so.
The reality is hard drives aren’t the primary cost for data storage. It’s 2 cents/GB to buy the hard drive and dollars per gigabyte (over the life of a hard drive) to actually power the drive, provide access over the network, maintain backups, etc.
The fact hte upfront cost was once 10 cents is irrelevant - none of the larger costs are getting cheaper. Some of them are going up (e.g. zero emission electricity).
This is really greedy imo. Even with inflation the price of storage per gb has decreased by ~90% since 2009. Big downside to being so vendor locked in. It’s not like I can use something like b2 buckets as a replacement.
See blackbaze price per gb for reference:
Has backblaze ever lowered their prices in the entire history of the company? I don’t think so.
The reality is hard drives aren’t the primary cost for data storage. It’s 2 cents/GB to buy the hard drive and dollars per gigabyte (over the life of a hard drive) to actually power the drive, provide access over the network, maintain backups, etc.
The fact hte upfront cost was once 10 cents is irrelevant - none of the larger costs are getting cheaper. Some of them are going up (e.g. zero emission electricity).