Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016

Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by dagw on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @05:18PM (#12213500)

Heh. I switched my wife from crashplan to backblaze about 18 month ago because I was tired of the crashplan client being buggy. Backblaze has just worked.

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by hrrsn on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:01PM (#12213760)

I don't like CrashPlan very much, but my backups are way faster to them than they ever were to Backblaze. My home connection has 200mbit upload, so I don't think the bottleneck is on my side.

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by kalleboo on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:52PM (#12215247)

Funny, Backblaze backs up faster than my Apple Time Capsule. I'm on a 1 GBps home connection. I guess it all depends on your peering.

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by hrrsn on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @07:42AM (#12260900)

I suspect that latency has something to do with it. Crashplan's servers are a good 100ms closer to me.

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by dagw on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:03PM (#12220553)

100 Mbps here, and backblaze uploads are a good 50-100% faster than crashplan

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Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 by brianwski on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:55PM (#12221435)

Brian from Backblaze here.

If you want to use more bandwidth in Backblaze, after you install find the Backblaze Control Panel, open the "Settings..." dialog, go to the "Performance" tab and UNSELECT "Automatic Throttle". Slide the manual slider all the way to the far far right. Then dial up the number of threads to 4 or 6. Seriously, you don't need to go any higher on the threads, after we use 100% of your bandwidth you can't get it to backup any faster. :-)

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