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We at TidBITS recommend that you have at least two backups, one of which could be an Internet-hosted backup. Hosted backups rely on our confidence that companies will continue to remain in existence to the point at which we may need to restore a file. Some of CrashPlan’s competitors outsource data storage – such as Jungle Disk, which uses Amazon S3 – which means their primary costs to pass along are per-gigabyte transfer and storage fees, which decrease only gradually with higher volume. However, many costs are relatively fixed for the data center as a whole, while others increase as a small fraction for each additional user or chunk of storage.ĬrashPlan’s plan, therefore, relies on receiving significant recurring revenue that lets them cover operational costs more users make it easier for those costs to be divided over a larger user base, even as users potentially back up much more data.

The factor working against those elements is that running a data center that requires absolute perfection costs quite a lot. Unlimited storage works as a practical business matter because bandwidth has become exceptionally cheap, inexpensive hard drives store vast amounts (and are getting vaster and cheaper all the time), and most people won’t consume hundreds of gigabytes of storage. Prices for 50 to 100 GB of storage and two computers work out to be about the same higher levels of data start to rack up costs much more quickly, however. Other firms like iDrive, Jungle Disk, and SpiderOak charge based on total storage consumed by all computers backed up through a single account. For one or two computers, the cost is comparable.

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For each computer, Backblaze collects $5 per month or discounts the fee to $50 per year Carbonite charges $54.95 per year (no monthly option) and Mozy is $4.95 per month, throwing in one month free with a year’s payment ($54.45 total).įor three home computers – as I have – paying a year at a time with CrashPlan Central would save me $50 to $65 per year over the equivalent service from the other three unlimited storage firms. This is also how older versions are retained (and reassembled on restoration) without consuming excessive space.īackblaze, Carbonite, and Mozy, which all offer unlimited storage as well, each charge a per-computer price. Most backup services, including CrashPlan, store multiple or unlimited older copies of changed files.īandwidth use after initial backups is kept as low as possible by sending only “differentials” – the pieces of files that have changed – instead of the entire file.

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Hosted backup software lets you transfer data from your computer to a data center where your archives are stored in encrypted form. For a single computer, CrashPlan’s yearly $54 fee ($4.50 per month) is comparable to several competitors, including Mozy. CrashPlan offers two- and three-year contracts for $150 and $180 ($6.25 per month and $5 per month, respectively).

The new CrashPlan Central plans for personal use for two or more computers costs $100 per year, which works out to $8.33 per month.

CrashPlan, like several other firms, previously charged a recurring fee based on the amount of storage you’d consumed.

The price of Internet backups just dropped suddenly with CrashPlan’s change to fixed rates for family and individual backups to its CrashPlan Central service.

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