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Backblaze online backups, what’s the catch?

the price of them sending out a HD with your backup/data on - this was the case while I used them several years ago.

Thanks, it mentions on the website that the disk costs are refunded if you send it back within 30 days. Even if it wasn’t refunded I would have thought that it was worthwhile if you’ve had a catastrophic failure.
 
IS there not a cost to downloaded the date I thought that was the thing, cheap to uplaod and store there but money to be made when you loose your data.
 
IS there not a cost to downloaded the date I thought that was the thing, cheap to uplaod and store there but money to be made when you loose your data.

Not according to this page...

https://www.backblaze.com/restore.html

“You can prepare a free restore or purchase a Restore by Mail drive after signing into Backblaze and going to the 'View/Restore Files' page.”

My concern is that It seems too good to be true given the low annual cost.
 
Google for opinions:

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.backblaze.com
https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1362108305934442496

USA Centric

The Save Files to B2 option allows you to move a zip restore to our B2 Cloud Storage service for permanent storage. B2 Cloud Storage is priced at $0.005/GB/Month for storage, and the Save Files to B2 option will quote your estimated storage cost. The maximum size of a Save Files to B2 restore is 10TB. You can learn more here.

USB flash and hard drive restores are built with the data you request and then shipped to an address of your choosing. We ship via FedEx with signature required where available. FedEx does not deliver to PO Boxes. All USB restores are prepared and shipped from the U.S., even if your data is stored in a non-U.S. data center.​

USB flash restores cost $99 and can contain up to 256 GB (238,000 MB of data) and USB hard drive restores cost $189 and can contain up to 8 TB max (7,000,000 MB of data). Both include the cost of shipping.​
 
I use BackBlaze but (thankfully!) have never had to restore.

I'm guessing their business model is based on storing a couple of hundred Gb per user and that costing them buttons to host.
 
While I appreciate what Backblaze etc are really for - prices like that buy a bundle of cheap local 2.5" HDs , even SSDs, you own & control outright...
 


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