StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
If you do like medical or financial transactions, normally you have retention needs that make for a lot more than 50 tapes.
My retention policy is 2 weeks, 12 months and 5 years... so much media needs would be much smaller.
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@Dashrender said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
@scottalanmiller said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
If you do like medical or financial transactions, normally you have retention needs that make for a lot more than 50 tapes.
My retention policy is 2 weeks, 12 months and 5 years... so much media needs would be much smaller.
Right, you aren't in this category of backup at all to be considering any of this stuff. You are likely talking about GB of data, not TB. You are looking at $9 tapes and $200 drives.
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Also important to note... LTO tapes are built around transport and storage. They can handle temperature changes, bouncing around, etc. Things that specifically are bad for hard drives. And tapes are meant to be reused with regular insertion and removal. Hard drives and SATA connections aren't meant to do that and tend to wear pretty quickly on the connector side. Even USB tends to wear quickly if you are plugging and unplugging constantly.
So reliability of backups is a big factor, too. Five years of retention on hard drives sitting on a shelf takes on a lot of risk that tape does not.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
So reliability of backups is a big factor, too. Five years of retention on hard drives sitting on a shelf takes on a lot of risk that tape does not.
This I can't agree with more. People storing 1 of a kind video files that could never be reproduced ever again on a single hard drive and putting that drive on a shelf. . .
Just being modest and suggesting that the area is climate controlled, you'd still lose 30% of these drives just from sitting there.
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@scottalanmiller said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
@JasGot said in StarWind Storage Gateway for Backblaze (B2). Calculator. Count your savings.:
When my company started backing up to B2, we didn't have to upgrade our bandwidth at all. So for us, that $400/mo they added in their assumptions is invalid.
Did you back up 2TB of data?
4TB actually.
