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This is really nice. I just wish that they wouldn't compare this product to enterprise products that are proven and have much more performance and options. I don't see how you can compare a consumer hardware based system with non-hot swaps, non redundancy, to a full san solution being offered by EMC or IBM.
How do these guys stay in business?
Ugh, port multipliers. That killed it for me.
This is really nice. I just wish that they wouldn't compare this product to enterprise products that are proven and have much more performance and options. I don't see how you can compare a consumer hardware based system with non-hot swaps, non redundancy, to a full san solution being offered by EMC or IBM.
nice, some good ideas. That case with hotswap would own. although you would probably have to sacrifice some hdd density or make it 5U to fit hotswap.
On a side note I think I'm going to signup for their service and backup my file server, $5/month for unlimited data storage is hard to beat. Inital upload would be PITA but after that it would be about 150-200gb/month
Either way, give it a try and let us know, if they don't complain, then I might consider that because it's cheaper than me buying hardware.
+1, I would love to read a [h]ard review on it. Looks legit to me too.
I was wondering the same exact thing. There is still ways around that, transfer through your desktop
Look, I'm an Advanced User, and I Already Have a Set of RAID Drives with Perl Scripts to
Copy My Files Back and Forth Between My 18 Home Machines that are in a Datacenter
I've Built in My Closet. Why Do I Need Backblaze?
Congratulations! It sounds like you're passionate about backup—and so are we.
In fact, you may even want to send us a note on the jobs page. But we still think
you should try Backblaze's online backup because it's automatic, will save your
data remotely, and is really inexpensive.
ewww port multipliers
Other than that, pretty cool idea espesially for home users. Now if only they would make a version that uses SAS. It really wouldn't be too much more expensive when considering the price of the whole package.
Must be a pain in the ass when one of the drives in there eventually fails.
I was wondering the same exact thing. There is still ways around that, transfer through your desktop
No support for network drives, so good luck on that part. Its an exclusion only file picker, so get ready to click to high heaven on all the millions of files we don't want to send thru our lil bitty internet pipes. There's no good folder picking options either, so have at it clicking each individual file. If you have lotsa gigs, prepare to wait on the order of weeks to upload, after you've spent days clicking files. Oh and there's 4GB file limit.
They give you an unlimited upload because it actually will take forever to backup your "server" and when you go to recover your server, you either download it which could take a till next year or you pay them 100 bucks for a 4GB dvd, or pay for a 500GB HD at 180 bucks or such.
I found some stuff on them and was like uh-oh. One user had data loss because their server broke, and guess what??? They couldn't recover the data, lol.
No support for network drives, so good luck on that part. Its an exclusion only file picker, so get ready to click to high heaven on all the millions of files we don't want to send thru our lil bitty internet pipes. There's no good folder picking options either, so have at it clicking each individual file. If you have lotsa gigs, prepare to wait on the order of weeks to upload, after you've spent days clicking files. Oh and there's 4GB file limit.
They give you an unlimited upload because it actually will take forever to backup your "server" and when you go to recover your server, you either download it which could take a till next year or you pay them 100 bucks for a 4GB dvd, or pay for a 500GB HD at 180 bucks or such.
I found some other stuff on them and was like uh-oh. One user had data loss because their server broke, and guess what??? They couldn't recover the data, lol.
4GB file limit?
See ya later
That limit is in a drop down box on exclude, makes me wonder if they support larger files in a non-trial or if it is an up-coming feature.
So what if your external drive fails? What if you migrate stuff from one external to another, and get rid of the older external?The Backblaze service is designed to protect the files you care about. Thus, we will keep a remote backup of any file that exists on your computer. Just in case, Backblaze will even keep multiple versions of that file for up to 30 days. However, Backblaze is not designed as an additional storage system when you run out of space. So, please don’t try to upload your external hard drive to us and delete your data off your drive…or we will delete those files from our servers as well.
etwork (NAS) drives, remotely mounted computers or volumes, or shared volumes do not get backed up. The reason for this is not technical, but a business decision. Backing up mounted or network drives can easily be abused. A user could mount the 10 or 20 computers in their home or small business and back them all up to one account for $5/month. We are evaluating a service that would backup NAS drives for a small per GB fee.
Backblaze works best if you leave the external hard drive attached to your computer all the time. However, Backblaze will backup external USB and Firewire hard drives that are detached and re-attached as long as you remember to re-attach the hard drive at least once every 30 days. If the drive is detached for more than 30 days, Backblaze interprets this as data that has been permanently deleted and securely deletes the copy from the Backblaze datacenter. The 30 day countdown is only for drives that have been unplugged. There is no countdown for local files.
Haha, what a rip off. So you have to keep their crap software installed and their crap software has to keep scanning your computers and ticks on 30 days.
Crap software, I could not agree more. I have 100+ GBs on another drive is directly attached to my main box, we will see how long that takes to backup.
See ya back here in a month. lol.