Tired of Tape?

Backblaze B2 can store your digital media files in the cloud—for less than the cost of LTO.

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Calculator: LTO vs. B2 Cloud Storage

Range is 1 GB to 10 PB
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TOTAL COST FOR 5 YEARS ($USD)

Migrate Large Data to the Cloud

The Backblaze Fireball is here to help easily and securely move massive datasets from on-premises storage to our storage cloud. If you have 50,000GB to transfer, it would take less than one month of savings to pay off the Fireball transfer fees.

Capacity 96TB


Network 10GB Ethernet

No Delays on Data Retrieval

The steps of retrieving a file.

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LTO

  1. Order from storage facility.
  2. Pay expedited fee, then wait.
  3. Load index.
  4. Retrieve file.

Results: Hours, Dollars

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Backblaze B2

  1. Log in to your B2 Account.
  2. Locate the file you need.
  3. Download file.

Results: Seconds, Pennies

Durability

Every day our customers recover files that have been stored in the Backblaze cloud for the past 10 years.

LTO

You need to cycle back and check your LTO tapes regularly for readability.

Cloud Storage

Backblaze B2 automatically checks every file for consistency on a regular basis. B2 Cloud Storage customers can rely on industry leading durability—that means they can recover decades of old files instantly. Data stored on LTO has to be migrated at least every 10 years in order to be accessible.

Resources

Want to run a free proof of concept for more than 50TB?