Best NAS Backup 2023 - Backblaze vs Synology C2 vs iDrive

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What is the best backup plan for your NAS? I have thoroughly tested out Backblaze, Synology C2 and iDrive over the last few months to see which is the better option.

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Backblaze does a flat rate $70/year unlimited backup plan for personal use. So it works out much cheaper than $66.77 as you store more.

shriramvenu

Just found your channel. So funny! Keep it up.

heathnortonflag

I don't have a NAS, but I do have 4 external drives and my iMac's internal drive and I use Backblaze. My total backup is just shy of 6 TB. I have a consumer account and pay just under $10 per month for unlimited. I've used them for years and really like it.

There have been a couple hiccups over the years, but their support has been helpful and I've been able to get any issues resolved. The most recent one had to do with the naming of hard drives and it essentially required me to do a new backup. It did take a few weeks with my fairly slow upload connection, but it eventually finished and has been rock solid ever since.

WineWorldTV

I use IDrive e2 storage for Veeam backup, with high speed and no problems.

JensHyldgaardPetersen

Great video and I hate to quibble but you have one glaring error here and that is that 1 TB of C2 Storage is $79.95 a YEAR, not a month!

mvachon

Hey Pete Would love to know what are those Amazon options for USB drives. Cheers 😊

patcostello

I like the idea of cloud backup. It's certainly more redundant, safer, fully and professionally managed, but you obviously pay for it. At $60+ / TB / year, it doesn't take long before you've paid for another NAS. At least with a NAS you own it. Of course you have to manage it, replace bad drives, worry about theft, natural disasters, geo-redundancy, etc. You really have to decide how valuable your data is. At just 10 TB (easy to get to with a bunch of photos and videos) you're looking at $800+ a year to rent storage. Over the course of a decade that's $8, 000. If it's critical business data, it makes sense. If it's family photos, perhaps going back to printed photos and a photo album doesn't sound so bad. 😀 You definitely have to pick your poison and weigh your options with this stuff. I don't want to lose my 30+ TB of stuff, but I'm also not keen on paying $1, 800+ a year to rent storage somewhere.

fretbuzzly

HI, thanks for very great video, for any of the cloud NAS backup solutions, can you restore your files from cloud, without having a so can you get to your files if you no longer has the NAS, or is it stored in some NAS-backup-specific so can you actually just download your backed up files to you computer and get to your files?

paul-erikhansen

very helpful when you mentioned how long it took to upload 10TB. I have 5 so it would take me what a week and a half?

realmaxtovar

Hi Pete, you discourage people to use iDrive for backing up NAS drive. However, you yourself tried to backup 13TB, which is quite unusual for most of us. I myself backed up my Synology NAS (400GB) with iDrive performing a upload speed of appr. 5GB/hour. Smooth, without errors. I saw iDrive runs also servers in Europe. Perhaps you experienced the curse of UK stepping out of Europe? 😜. Best wishes, Mark from The Netherlands

markhartevelt

iDrive has worked flawlessly for me on a Synology NAS. I don't remember how long it took to upload 8TB but it wasn't more than a couple of weeks. I do have fiber gigabit internet with AT&T so no bottlenecks on my end. The best part is that the plan I'm on is only $99 annually per year.

swiftyjpow

video i've been waiting for! Newbie NAS guy here

ShervinShares

Great video, Pete!

Backblaze for the win for me! I don't have a NAS, but I do have about 10TB of data across multiple drives and RAIDs... All backed up locally and with Backblaze.

The peace of mind I have knowing I'm covered if one of my drives die is worth it.

cwTheDrummist

I only need 2-3TB I can keep that on my main machine, veeam backup to the NAS and do $10/no for the personal with 1y retention. I thought it was bad that it took 4 days! It capped at 6Mbit I have 42Mbit down and 1.5Gbit down. A lot of my data isn't important enough id have to redownload apps and stream for lost shows. 10-15TB it's just a hassle not a loss.

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