That’s perfect for your writing and standard documents, reasonable enough for your iPhone photos, but both far too small and expensive to back up RAW footage.Įnterprise, developer-focused cloud storage is far more scalable and reasonably priced-and confusing. You’ll spend $9.99/month for 2TB of iCloud, Google Drive, or Dropbox storage. What’s still not exactly cheap is cloud storage. At that rate, even 5TB hard drives start sounding small. That’s a good thing, when your average RAW photo today weighs in at 40-80MB, when one gigabyte will only store 3 minutes of standard 4K footage or less than a second of RAW 8K footage.

Now, for a third of that price, you can get a 6TB external hard drive or a 1TB SSD.

The first consumer 1TB hard drive cost $399. Later this year, the team will release a Partner API to enable integrated partners’ ability to provision and manage Backblaze B2 storage natively, with no need to create separate accounts for the customer.Now, anyhow.

Platform Enhancements: Includes upgraded capacity and enhancements to provide scale, resilience, availability, and speed.

Fireball Upgrades: Increases capacity and speed of our data transfer service to streamline moving from on-premises to the cloud.

Mobile Uploads: Adds the ability to upload files directly to B2 Cloud Storage buckets via an iOS device (Android coming soon).

Server-side Encryption: Expands protection of data at rest, with different options for those who do and don’t wish to take full control of encryption key management.

There are a lot of new features in the release here are just a few: The company enhanced its ransomware and security protections, added key new partners, provided performance upgrades, and more. On Tuesday Backblaze announced the spring release for its B2 Cloud Storage platform.