Excellent analysis. There are some other costs involved (bandwidth, switches/cabinets, non-pod servers, etc.), but pods & drives dominate the costs, so your math is good.
You're also right that 1 TB is the approximate breakeven between Backblaze per-GB cloud storage & unlimited online backup by cost and most people are below that. However, the main reason for people to use the backup service is that we take care of all the backup functions (encryption, dedup, compression, restores, etc.)
> Please excuse me while I buy stock in Amazon/Box/Dropbox/Backblaze/etc....
Alas, Backblaze stock isn't yet available for sale ;-)
Any chance you're thinking about a B2 based backup client for Synology or the like? I'm eager to backup those sorts of things to backblaze without going through the ISCUSI route Marco is taking.
You're also right that 1 TB is the approximate breakeven between Backblaze per-GB cloud storage & unlimited online backup by cost and most people are below that. However, the main reason for people to use the backup service is that we take care of all the backup functions (encryption, dedup, compression, restores, etc.)
> Please excuse me while I buy stock in Amazon/Box/Dropbox/Backblaze/etc....
Alas, Backblaze stock isn't yet available for sale ;-)
BTW, thanks for being a customer!
Gleb