Re:Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016
by hrrsn on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @06:01PM
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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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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.
I suspect that latency has something to do with it. Crashplan's servers are a good 100ms closer to me.
100 Mbps here, and backblaze uploads are a good 50-100% faster than crashplan
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. :-)