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Here is what i was thinking i want to do: I have an old computer running Windows 10, and i use it as a NAS and as a self hosted media server. What are your experiences with it? Any limits, terms, or fine print that I should know before putting all my data on there? You do need a B2 account for this to work, but the sharing tools will walk you through setting one up if you don’t have one yet.īackblaze charges $5/month for its personal backup service (or $50/year if you pre-pay) and $50/year per computer for its business plan.Backblaze personal backup is $6/month/computer and it looks like its completely unlimited, that just sounds too good to be true.

While this cloud storage service is mostly meant for developers, all B2 accounts come with 10GB/month of free storage and 1GB/day of free downloads, which should make it powerful enough for sharing photos and other files with friends and family. It’s worth noting that Backblaze founder and CEO Gleb Budman tells me that he remains fully committed to offering unlimited backups without any speed restrictions.Īs for the new file sharing feature, Backblaze now allows its users to publicly share any of their backed up files through its B2 service. in 2017, not everybody has access to these kinds of fast connections. The company says that its service can now achieve backups of up to 100 Mbps, though in the infrastructure backwater that is most the U.S. On a slow connection, you don’t want to have to use too many parallel threads, but on a fast connection, you may want as many as possible. Backblaze for Mac and PC now makes smarter decisions about how many simultaneous upload connections it can handle. The highlights here are clearly the increased speed and the new file sharing feature.

This new version introduces faster backups and restores, as well as improved browsing speed, image previews on the restore page and a new file sharing feature backed by the company’s B2 Cloud Storage service. Today, the company launched version 5.0 of its service and desktop clients. Backblaze is one of the few unlimited backup services standing - in part because of its prowess in securing its own hard drives and building its own cloud services.