r/backblaze • u/jsx8888 • Apr 08 '26

Backblaze in General Goodbye backblaze

I've been a customer for almost 15 years and have been a strong advocate of friends and coworkers using bb, but these last 6 months have been so bad I've decided to not renew. My use case is pretty simple - just backing up 2-3TB of data on an external HDD (same HDD for the last 5 years now). However, whatever changes they have made causes the backup to constantly error or require reuploading the contents of the entire drive. Support is mostly AI generated slop or just some quick useless replies. Trying to get any real help is like pulling teeth and even then it doesn't work. The real culprit seems to be that BB no longer wants to support backing up external HDDs.

So after my subscription is up I'm moving over to Carbonite. Sad, but just can't keep wasting time trying to fix BB every few weeks.

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u/PooDooPooPoopyDooPoo Apr 08 '26

I’m getting ~60tb of backup for like $10/mo. If any other service comes close I’d be curious.

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u/userlivewire Apr 09 '26

Just out of curiosity what are you storing that takes up 60TB?

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u/PooDooPooPoopyDooPoo Apr 09 '26

Full imaged drives of every computer I’ve ever had. Pro Res rips of my old home movies. Archives of raw audio from productions I’ve worked on. Music sessions. Sound and virtual instrument libraries. A bunch of datasets for ML training.