#Backblaze vs idrive software#

#Backblaze vs idrive software#

Online backup software will check every file encountered during the pre-flight checks, and it will look something like this:ДЎ.

Online backup software expects to be run on very low bandwidth connections and all providers will have grown up with Kbps speeds where the software is written specifically to handle these situations. Once this handshaking is complete, larger files will transfer as fast as the connection allows. The reason is because a lot of backup and restore overhead occurs during the first exchange. twice the speed of 5TB of regular files, and sometimes 5 times as fast as 5TB of very small files (less than 200K in size). This means the speed will be slower than if we had transferred large files.Д®xperience tells us that large files, such as a 5TB Hyper V disk will transfer at approx. We didnвЂ™t test large data files and used generic office files that we would expect to see on desktops and servers. What speeds should be expected of a cloud backup or data transfer? Notably both the Backblaze B2 and Wasabi destinations (both in the US) were quicker than Google in the UK. This is a constant and always surprises us because it beats all the UK destinations. The Wasabi destination in Holland was the quickest. The latter does skew the results somewhat because it is on another continent, but as the results show, this shows how responsive B2 is. The Wasabi location is in Holland (Amsterdam) and the Backblaze B2 destination in the US. Then we thought we should also run the test on Microsoft Azure blobs, Amazon AWS S3, Google Cloud, Wasabi, Backblaze B2 and IDrive Cloud object storage.ДЇor our test backup server, we are using Ahsay CBS version 8.3 and it is running in MicrosoftвЂ™s AzureвЂ™s data centre in London. We were worried they might have started to suffer some latency as their network usage and amount of data stored increased, so it seemed fair to check again. Wasabi were displaying some awesome speeds back in June when we tested their service running in Holland. ItвЂ™s also a perfect time to speed check Azure and Wasabi again 5 months after the previous bench test. This got us thinking about how BackblazeвЂ™s B2В object storage would compare to the other 2 cloud destinations. We previously posted the speed results of backing up to Azure vs backing up to WasabiВ and were pleased to see that Wasabi was very quick and lightweight. Theirs is also a type of object storage and is reviewed side-by-side with the others. Microsoft have decided to break away from this standard, using their own proprietary method for their blobs system. It is also the standard used by almost all object storage providers. S3 is the standard method for Object Storage which Amazon first used on their AWS cloud platform. This process is all controlled by the S3 connector within your system. This means you will never run out of storage space and it can grow or reduce as you require it. Instead, an S3 connector within your software will work within the S3 rules and chop / chunk your data into smaller sizes which are organised into the storage location. Object storage is different in that you donвЂ™t have a specific sized storage destination. With traditional storage devices and destinations, you build or buy a predefined storage size and that is all you can use. It is very different to the way files have traditionally been stored. Object storage is also referred to as object-based storage and is a method of storing data in units called вЂobjectsвЂ™.