Moving from B2 to Storj.io
Moving from B2 to Storj.io
In light of the recently announced price increase, I'm seriously considering moving all my backups from B2 to Storj as Storj is only charging $0.004/GB . As it's mostly just a backup, I don't really need the free egress and I travel a lot so not being tied to a single DC location is also appealing. What do you guys think? Anyone using Storj? What has your experience been like so far?
I still have my 150GB free account from Storj which I use for some backups so I can't speak from a paying customer perspective. From my experience, it's okay -- never really had downtime (at least I never noticed) and I couldn't say anything negative about it. It does have a "per segment fee" so just be aware of that.
That segment fee is really hard to understand for a new customer
$0.0000088 per segment. Each segment is at most 64mb, so 1tb is at least 16k segments.
1 tb in 100k files is $5 per month instead of the advertised $4
Wow, that can add up really quickly. I've been playing around with the free tier for a bit to try and fully understand everything before committing to the move.
I am aware of the per segment fee. I've got mostly large media files to backup and plan to bundle all the small files together into a tarball to reduce the segment counts.