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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Score9.6 out of 10

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What is Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage?

Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Versioning

    Users can access the most up-to-date version of a document, track changes, and revert to older versions if needed.

    Category average: 8

  • Video files

    Supports video file types

    Category average: 8.1

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Performance

    Platform runs at a good speed on all browsers; files load and sync quickly.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Reliability

    Cloud storage platform is secure, all features are consistently available, and the platform maintains file integrity.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Storage Reports

    Includes reporting capabilities to monitor user activity and storage levels.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
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Backblaze B2 is the gold standard for affordable, S3-compatible cloud backup

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Backblaze B2 to store backups for our Synology NAS devices. Ever since Backblaze B2 started to support the de-facto standard S3 protocol, it opened the service to more and more of our devices that need backups. We have moved our Backblaze B2 backup jobs to the S3-compatible platform and are going to be using B2 for years into the future.

Pros

  • Affordable online backups using redundant, inexpensive storage hardware
  • S3-compatible interface
  • Fast internet connectivity to data centers

Cons

  • My chief complaint about the former lack of S3 compatibility was resolved so I have no complaints now.
  • Please keep egress free!

Return on Investment

  • The per-byte pricing has saved us 30% over the competing Wasabi service which charges on a three-month minimum which causes us to pay for deleted objects.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Wasabi Object Storage, Synology DiskStation, IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2 and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Other Software Used

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), IDrive Online Backup and Object Storage e2, Wasabi Object Storage

The Magic of Great Cloud Storage

Incentivized
Paulette EnsignView profile
Owner in Professional Services at Tips Products International (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage backs up our external drive, where we archive everything we do internally to run the business, including client work so we have that level of automatic redundancy in place. That is in addition to the backup our vendors and subcontractors have on their own respective computers and stored in the cloud. Because this backup is done automatically and we receive regular reports from Backblaze, we're able to sleep a lot better at night and pay less than we were with the previous cloud backup service we used. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage also seems to have their system working seamlessly so there's never an outage or or gap of any kind, which somehow happened all too often with the previous vendor company. When I looked for referrals for a reliable and inexpensive cloud service, I had no idea Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage was so popular among other small business owners. I've seen why in my own experience this past year since we switched over to them.

Pros

  • Seamless service - I hardly know they're there, yet reports assure me they are!
  • Charges a reasonable price for excellent coverage.
  • Communicate clearly and promptly on the rare times I've had a question.

Cons

  • For what my company needs, I cannot think of anything more or better they could do, though a birthday card would be fun!

Most Important Features

  • Abundant storage space to grow into
  • Consistent service and communication
  • Reasonable fee for service
  • Ease of reconstructing content (though we have fortunately not needed that -- yet!)

Return on Investment

  • Difficult to quantify the peace of mind Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage services provides.
  • Based on the reported experiences of other Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage clients, recovery has been smooth. We have not yet had the need to use that function.
  • Because Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage's service has been seamless, I feel much more confident in their ability to deliver what they promise when we have the need to expand or enhance what we are purchasing from them.

Alternatives Considered

Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Other Software Used

Shared Contacts for Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack

Some of the best priced storage available

Incentivized
Matt HoffmanView profile
Chief Executive Officer in Corporate at Hoffman Management Group (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Backblaze offers some of the cheapest storage available. I have over 2 terabytes of backups (excessive, I know!) which only cost me $10 as of last month. Extremely cost effective and allows us to store very old backups for a very cheap price. Their personal backup services are even cheaper, and has (at time of review) unlimited backup capacity.

Pros

  • File management
  • Pricing
  • Customer Service

Cons

  • File organization sometimes is a little confusing
  • Lots of emails, but I assume that's due to the alerts I have set up

Most Important Features

  • Price
  • Capacity
  • Bucket abilities

Return on Investment

  • We haven't had any data loss situations yet, however I'm sure our ROI will be fairly high if we have to recover any data. Backblaze is in the insurance industry, not storage.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Backup, Linode, Google Drive, Box and Dropbox

Other Software Used

Linode, AWS Backup, Box

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage - the Idiot Proof File BackUp Solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Partner in Marketing (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed an easy to use, always on back up solution. Many of our clients actually require that we have redundancy and protection plans in place in the event of an outage or memory loss and Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage was the solution we chose.

Pros

  • easy to use
  • works without you having to do anything
  • notifies you if there's a problem
  • easy to implement

Cons

  • costs just went up some
  • might be nice to get confirmation that it's working occasionally
  • nothing else

Most Important Features

  • always on
  • cloud based
  • good price

Return on Investment

  • provides peace of mind
  • meets client requirements for redundancy
  • one less thing to worry about

Alternatives Considered

Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup and Dropbox Business

Other Software Used

Semrush, Ahrefs, SpyFu

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