“Your cost may be a bit more, but it is possible for you to build a 4U server with 480TB of data storage for less than a nickel ($0.05) a gigabyte.” “The Storage Pod 6.0 hardware design is, as always, open source, so we’ve included the blueprints, STEP files, wiring diagrams, build instructions and a parts list so you can build your very own Storage Pod. “That’s 22 percent less than our Storage Pod 5.0 storage server that used 45 drives to store data for. It dropped its storage pricing again May 1 this time with its new Storage Pod 6.0, which deploys 60 off-the-shelf hard drives in a 4U chassis, offering this latest data storage server for a mere. Now Backblaze is taking its business to a whole new level. So the San Mateo, Calif-based company opened its cloud storage directly to users through the Web, a command line or an API-take your pick. “The lowest cost S3 tier is 2.2 cents/GB/month, and even Glacier, which has a 4-hour data transfer delay and other charges, is 1 cent/GB/month.” “We’re going to charge one-half cent/GB/month,” Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman told eWEEK back then. None of those well-known storage names can claim to charge unlimited data backup in the cloud for laptops and desktops for $5 per month, nor can they offer enterprise data storage for less than Backblaze charges. AWS, Google and Microsoft can argue this point, but they would lose the debate. Last September, Backblaze-a storage mouse that roars- entered the cloud storage wars to compete directly against the likes of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Storage.īackblaze claimed at the time-and it can back it up-to have built the world’s lowest-cost cloud storage.

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