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It's for storing a few terabytes of fairly static media (for the most part, write-once). The codebases using it don't natively support object storage (and will be in Docker containers).

It's on a Hetzner server, and Backblaze (even after the price increase) will be a lot cheaper than normal drives, although their storage box option is probably better value over about two GB.

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aksdb@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
But the thing is: B2 is cheap for storage, but retrieval and traversal are very expensive. And if that happens transparently on the filesystem (because you accidentally run grep or the service in question regularly hashes the files or something), you would implicitly download everything stored. And IIRC retrieval costs ten times the storage costs… each time.)

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- huck@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is no longer the case. Starting in October egress is free up to 3x the volume stored with them.
  
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  - aksdb@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh wow. Good to know! Thanks!
    
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    Deebster@lemmyrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yup: Backblaze Product and Pricing Updates
    
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- lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Backblaze recently revised B2 storage, it’s gone up by $1 and they offer free egress equal to I believe 2x or 3x the data you have stored with them. Let me try find a link to this…
  
  www.backblaze.com/…/2023-product-announcement/
  
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sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a similar use case and whilst I’m not quite there yet I’m intending to go with a storage box

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- Deebster@lemmyrs.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I plan to switch over later when it makes sense to - the nice thing about Backblaze is that it scales with your storage, whereas with Hetzner you have to jump from 1 TB to 5 TB.
  
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  - sixCats@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh I know, I had the same thoughts
    
    Object storage does really bad as a filesystem and it may very seriously be cheaper for you to have a 5TB storage box over 2TB of object storage
    
    S3 has no list operation, so any time the computer wants to “list” a directory in object storage that is expensive
    
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