edit: i cannot arithmetic today, or sanity check my arithmetic. sorry.
sigh.
sigh.
Their current pricing appears to be $0.005/GB-month... which would be $295.20 for 41 years of 120GB of storage.
> i wouldn't trust a cheap SSD to still work in 41 years
I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze. Preserving data over that length of time will probably require active management of the data in some form or another. DVD or Blu-ray discs might last that long... but it's hard to trust any storage medium to last for 41 years. Modern storage technology just hasn't existed that long.
sigh. bad at arithmetic today. sorry.
> I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze
as i mention in the reply to the sibling comment, the backblaze corporate entity doesn't need to last.
> DVD or Blu-ray discs might last that long... but it's hard to trust any storage medium to last for 41 years
on an anecdotal note, i put a bunch of data on DVDs circa 2004-2008, and tried to retrieve it all spring 2018. all of the inexpensive DVDs were garbage. only the most expensive survived, and even those had a few bit errors.
What. I just checked backblaze, it was $5 a month, or $50 a year.
the corporate entity that is currently doing business as backblaze doesn't need to last 41 years, or even 41 more days. the stored data is all a valuable stream of revenue from customers who'd like it preserved, so unless their whole model is unsustainable, i'd expect the company to be sold to/absorbed by another business.
as for honoring the plan, i don't think cloud storage rates are going to go _up_. so maybe they wouldn't want me as a customer at some point, but so long as they're taking consumer business i can't imagine the pennies per GB*month going up unless there is some sort of massive societal upheaval.