Tired of Tape?

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

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Calculator: LTO vs. B2 Cloud Storage

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TOTAL COST FOR X YEARS

Migrate Large Data to the Cloud

The Backblaze Fireball is here to help easily and securely move massive data sets from on-premises to our storage cloud.
If you have X GB to transfer, it would take less than X of savings to pay off the Fireball transfer fees.
Meet Fireball
CAPACITY: 96 TB
NETWORK: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
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No Delays on Data Retrieval

The steps of retrieving a file.

LTO Tape

LTO

  1. Order from storage facility
  2. Pay expedited fee then wait
  3. Load index
  4. Retrieve file
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RESULTS:
Hours & Dollars
Backblaze Cloud

Backblaze B2

  1. Log in to your B2 Account
  2. Locate the file you need
  3. Download file
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RESULTS:
Seconds & Pennies

Durability

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 old files instantly. Data stored on LTO has to be migrated at least every 10 years in order to be accessible.
Cloud Checkmark Every day our customers recover files that have been stored in the Backblaze cloud for the past 10 years.
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Resources

Range is 1 GB to 10 PB
Range is 0 GB to 10 PB
Daily Incremental is too large for daily backup to cloud