Marianne SpillerLetztes Bucket bei #Backblaze gelöscht. Sobald alle Rechnungen komplett sind, kann der Account dann also auch weg.
*zufrieden guck*
Daniel FisherI said goodbye to #Storj yesterday, both for my own cloud storage needs and as a storage node operator.
I really liked Storj's original model which used distributed storage nodes to provide cloud storage services that don't rely on big corporate data centers. I hosted a 10TB node for the network which paid me $15-20 a month in STORJ tokens. I applied these directly to my own Storj cloud storage account which mostly covered my own 2-3TB cloud storage needs.
While it was touted as a low cost cloud storage solution when compared to #AWS, #Azure, and the like, I never really got that benefit. In addition to charging per TB-month of storage there was also a per segment cost that often doubled my monthly bill due to storing large numbers of files. But as long as my node payouts covered my storage bill it was a nice solution.
Over the last year Storj has made several changes, both to the amount node operators were paid (less) and to how much customers were charged (more). The change announced November 2025 was already going to push me out, since they instituted a minimum storage time requirement of 30 days, which didn't work for my daily rolling incremental backups from #Veeam. But the old price tier was grandfathered in until November 2026.
Yesterday they announced another price tier change which goes into effect **July 1, 2026** with no exceptions for current users. Even more infuriating was the **$50** per month minimum usage!! It was the nail in the coffin for me and I easily switched to #Backblaze B2 over night. Storj is no longer a viable service for home users.
Timeline:
Change to SNO payouts (April 2023)
https://forum.storj.io/t/announcement-changes-to-storj-node-payouts/22338
New pricing tiers (September 2025)
https://forum.storj.io/t/new-pricing-model-up-or-downgrade/30729
Storj acquired by Inveniam (October 2025)
https://www.storj.io/blog/storj-joins-inveniam-to-accelerate-innovation
Another pricing tiers change with $50/month minimum usage (June 2026)
https://www.storj.io/pricing/change-faqs
Announcement: Changes to Storj Node Payouts
Hello Storage Node Operators! Important: This is an announcement of changes to payout rates for storage nodes on three satellites: Salt Lake, europe-north-1, us2 effective May 1st. See below for details. As we have been discussing in our forum posts (Mar. 8, 2023 post & Apr. 5, 2023 post), the time has come for us to make some adjustments to the payout rates for Storj node operators. Thank you so much for all of you that have contributed to the conversation so far. We’ve read your comments and...
Brian KoopmanI was trying to stand up Seafile with S3 storage using Backblaze -- just to test it out before considering using it regularly. It requires three buckets, but only supports providing a single application key via env var -- and Backblaze doesn't seem to support multi-bucket keys. Trying to use seafile.conf to specify separate keys just causes a crash at startup.
Think I'll give up for the night and come back later in the week...
Jori 
What object storage services would you recommend? I tried Hetzner's object storage, but it felt like they kept raising the prices month after month. I usually use Backblaze and haven't been able to find anything better so far. #s3 #objectstorage #object #storage #backblaze #hetzner #b2
Peter B.@eblack Roger that.
Shall your "cloud copy" be your primary pool, or just for backup/access copies?
I haven't done any price-comparisons to AWS, but for example, #Backblaze is a more open (and friendly?) cloud-storage provider:
MichaelNew blog by me:
I'm running Proxmox Backup Server using Backblaze B2 (an S3 compatible object storage service) for storing backups. This does work fine, but my scheduled verification (I verify once a week) regularly fails on some backups due to what appears to be transient issues with the B2 API.
I’ve made a script to re-verify these as needed and thought I'd share:
https://blog.thms.uk/2026/05/pbs-reverify?utm_source=mastodon
Chris MillsMy solution:
I removed #rclone from my #LinuxMint PC and it is much happier for it (and so am I). Somehow, asking rclone to talk to Google Drive with default application access meant it was slow and frustrating.
I've moved my #Blender3D projects back to my local drive and will simply log into Windows periodically to back up all my work files to #BackBlaze. This works fine with the resources I have to hand and have already paid for.
Someday I will de-Google and I can see heading to #myKsuite on #infomaniak for this.
briancmoses.comDo you still trust #Backblaze now that it's quietly stopped backing up your data?
James WilcoxWith the recent change to #backblaze, I think I'm going back to #pCloud from Dropbox. I just tested and pCloud can sync folders on an external drive, and Backblaze still backs that up. Dropbox Mac makes you use one folder on the internal drive which already has limited space.
amah_codesEnd-to-End Storage Drive Analytics Platform Complete! 🚀
Spent the past weeks on my Data Engineering Zoomcamp final project. Excited to share an end-to-end platform analyzing Backblaze hard drive data to bridge enterprise telemetry and consumer accessibility.
The pipeline ingests daily SMART snapshots into GCS, builds a star schema with dbt, and serves insights via Streamlit dashboard showing failure rates by brand and model. Infrastructure is managed with Terraform; the warehouse was optimized using partitioning to improve query performance.
To increase accessibility, switching to open-source/free-ish tools so anyone can dive in without a cloud signup (and plus my trial expired 🙈). My goal is providing drive reliability data so creators, homelabbers, business, or casual users feel informed about their next storage purchase. 😊
Check out the repo for details: https://github.com/ammartin8/hard_drive_analytics_dashboard
#DataEngineering #harddrive #opensource #cloud #streamlit #buildinpublic #selfhosting #mastodon #python #fediverse #backblaze
