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).
It’s also worth noting that Backblaze charges signfiicantly more than Apple does. At a glacne they’re the same price ($10 per 2TB per month) but Backblaze also charges per gigabyte to access data on your drive. Apple provides unlimited access for free.
These are all good points. Upon inspection the price is actually very reasonable. Some other 2TB comparisons:
Dropbox: £7.99/month but £13.99/month if you want to share the data
Google drive: £7.99/month
Standard storage at AWS (for accounts with 500TB+ of usage) $0.021/GB/month ($42/month)
iCloud storage also has other perks such as 10 days of recording for unlimited home secure cameras.
So the previous £6.99 was unusually cheap, £8.99/month is now more inline with market rate and at the rate at which apple increases the iCloud storage price it will probably stay at £8.99 for a long time.
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).
It’s also worth noting that Backblaze charges signfiicantly more than Apple does. At a glacne they’re the same price ($10 per 2TB per month) but Backblaze also charges per gigabyte to access data on your drive. Apple provides unlimited access for free.
Using other instant as lemmy.ml is down.
These are all good points. Upon inspection the price is actually very reasonable. Some other 2TB comparisons:
iCloud storage also has other perks such as 10 days of recording for unlimited home secure cameras. So the previous £6.99 was unusually cheap, £8.99/month is now more inline with market rate and at the rate at which apple increases the iCloud storage price it will probably stay at £8.99 for a long time.