Air Back vs. Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Air Back
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
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$400
per month
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 9.6 out of 10
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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.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Basic
$400
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Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTwo pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.
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Air Back

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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 offers more affordable storage per byte, supports the de-facto standard Amazon S3 protocol, and has free egress.
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for …
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is the best of the bunch. It's priced better than the more expensive cloud based solutions and more robust than the file storage sites like DropBox or Google Drive.
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze is definitely the cheapest and most cost effective out of the 6 other services I've used in the past.

For personal use, they are by and away the best service available. For business use, I believe they are a very strong contender to be the #3 guys behind AWS and Linode.
Features
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File Sharing & Management
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Cloud Storage Security & Administration
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Cloud Storage Platform
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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I would consider Backblaze as a second or a third tier backup solution. Not in terms of quality, but I'd recommend having at least one more backup saved somewhere else. And with the cost as low as theirs, Backblaze is the perfect solution. It also provides very friendly recovery options on both the personal and business side.
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Pros
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  • easy to use
  • works without you having to do anything
  • notifies you if there's a problem
  • easy to implement
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Cons
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  • For what my company needs, I cannot think of anything more or better they could do, though a birthday card would be fun!
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Usability
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Since Backblaze added S3 compatibility a few years ago, it's become the most perfect online backup solution.
I also like their transparency in describing their platform and the reports of hard drive reliability are very interesting.
The free egress is priceless, too.
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Alternatives Considered
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Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for almost two decades. Then it happened that we did have to do a recovery two different times because of hardware failures. It was anything but a smooth or complete recovery, and their price kept rising as their service declined. Hundreds of files were totally lost in the process. I guessed that among their strategies, it might well have been a re-focus on their part to build up their enterprise accounts and didn't seem to care about small business. I finally had enough and left them as a client.
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Return on Investment
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  • 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.
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Screenshot of Files are stored in BucketsScreenshot of B2 Cloud Storage Dashboard