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Thank You. So backblaze for $6/TB a month. I could have a TB of Data backed up safely against file corruption? I wonder how have I missed that.

Now you could use it with Synology NAS and it is a lot cheaper than doing RAID 5 for ZFS / BTRFS with Muti redundancy.

I wonder if there are any NAS that does that automatically? Any drawbacks? Also wonder if the price could go down to $5 / TB in a few years time.

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The price of Backblaze WAS $5 a few years ago and they increased it to $6 (and added some free bandwidth).

I'm still annoyed they increased the price for B2. Maybe "free" bandwidth gets people to use it more? But as far as their costs go, between the time they launched at $5 and the time they upped it to $6, hard drives (and servers full of hard drives) cost half as much per TB, with 1/4 as many servers needed for the same number of TB.

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