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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by conqrr on Friday February 23, 2024 @02:34PM (#39485109)
Backblaze is cloud and suffers the major limitation of being expensive for an individual. The case for NAS for personal backup is getting stronger every day. For anything > 1TB, for personal backup or sync, a NAS is $400 investment whereas cloud would be $400 recurring cost which is ever increasing and has risks of ransomware etc.
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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by gruez on Friday February 23, 2024 @02:49PM (#39485263)
The typcial NAS doesn't offer geo-redundancy. You can colocate it to get that, but that also significantly increases cost, which makes cloud competitive again.
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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by foobiekr on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:00PM (#39485377)
For a very long time neither did backblaze.
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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by chimeracoder on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:12PM (#39485513)
> For a very long time neither did backblaze.

Unless you live in a Backblaze data center, using Backblaze has always implied that your data is stored in at least two separate locations.

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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by secabeen on Friday February 23, 2024 @06:58PM (#39487718)
If this is personal backup, you can usually find another tech-savvy friend who will co-locate a secondary NAS for free.
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Re:What's Wrong with Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive? Mo... by awskinda on Friday February 23, 2024 @02:49PM (#39485260)
It’s the same argument for the cloud. With Backblaze, I pay $x/month and someone else deals with OS/Software updates and hard drive failures. If I don’t outsource, I handle it myself for less.

It’s just a trade off based on how much time and comfort you have as a personal user.

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