![]() Personally, I have about 10TB of data stored on Backblaze from one of my computers, and with recent performance increases, I certainly won’t be leaving any time soon. The price increases of Backblaze have also hardly exceeded inflation. Miners have been buying up hard drives and SDDs, despite the limited profitability of Chia mining.īackblaze explains the change and their justification in more detail in a blog post. Chia is a cryptocurrency, similar to Bitcoin, but rather than relying on processing power to earn them, it relies on storage space. ![]() The email references supply chain costs, and hard drive prices have been increasing this year, at least in part as a result of Chia mining. In this instance, the price changes make sense. This price increase mirrors a change that occurred just over two years ago when the monthly price increased from $5 to $6. Current Backblaze customers are also able to purchase an extra year at the lower price. Regardless of the number of hard drives connected to your computer and the amount of data stored on them, unlimited remote backup is only $7 per month.Īnyone hoping to start backing up your files (as you should if you don’t want to lose data) before the price increase can do so before August 16th when the changes take effect. While this change may be disappointing, it is unsurprising given the unlimited nature of the single computer backup plan. The company is raising the prices of the subscription by 1 month that’s right, by a dollar. ![]() For the average retiree who got a monthly check of 1,827 this year. The previous $6/month plan is increasing to $7/month, yearly is increasing from $60 to $70, and the $110 two year plan is going to $130. Voters in August of 2022 voted against a millage increase that would have. You’ll need five Backblaze subscriptions costing 60/year each (that’s 300/year in total) while IDrive’s prices stay the same: 69.50 or 99.50 per year. While plan prices will jump next month, Backblaze is giving customers a chance to lock in existing prices for up to two years. The cost depends on your subscription plan and which retention period you choose. The service only offers one personal plan (Backblaze Unlimited Backup) and doesn’t discount it for the first year. Backblaze B2 is a cloud storage solution that provides high performance data storage at one fourth the cost of leading cloud storage providers: US 0. In an email sent to customers today, Backblaze announced that they will be increasing the cost of its unlimited Mac backup plan. For these solutions, users can now select Backblaze B2 as their cloud storage and enjoy versatile benefits including low cost and high performance.
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