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iDrive e2 object storage now just $20/TB/year
CyberneticTitan
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Sometime between July 2nd and today iDrive dropped prices on their e2 object storage by half, with the caveat is that they no longer seem to offer a first year discounted price.
Overage pricing is still $0.004/GB/Month. No changes to their egress policy.
https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/pricing
Now this pricing is pretty competitive compared to what some hosts can offer in terms of storage VPS. I've heard quite a few stories about downtime with e2, so be weary.
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Is it recurring?
It doesn't say that it's a discount so yes, it should be recurring, though they changed the pricing multiple times this year.
Appears to be. Not sure how they are handling current users on the $40/TB/year plan though.
I'm on the monthly/payg plan and when I try to change plan 1 year is still $40 for me. Anyone else?
This is better than Hetzner Storage boxes now!
Do you recommend it?
It has been rock solid for me for one year. Only minor hiccups with performance a couple of times max and they were resolved super quickly
Good to hear, can I ask what is your use case? I've been thinking of using it to kinda offload the price of R2, it has worked flawlessly for video serving so far, but yeah. $15/TB is kinda rough when starting out.
I use e2 for both user uploads/media, and for backups. Like I said, rock solid and very fast for me
With R2 you seemingly get unmetered bandwidth even for non-HTML content, but e2 has a stricter usage policy: https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/faq-account-management#egress-policy
Yeah I saw, but since I proxy I also cache popular files on my servers so that 1:3 ratio is more than enough for me.
Awesome thanks!
Yes, I have noticed the price drop too yesterday.
However, my bucket in Frankfurt has been down since Friday afternoon/evening (so two days now).
First time for the last 10 months that I have seen some serious downtime. I don't know if it's the whole region or just my server.
My other bucket in Montreal is still fine.
Promotional price is still $10 for 1TB for one year on new account (Veeam offer, tick box when creating new accounts)
Boy, the price drop was a very pleasant surprise. I was considering building my own minio cluster before, but now it seems like it's not necessary at all. After all, building your own cluster is not much cheaper than e2, but the O&M costs are much higher.
I have some questions, e2 generates them at 10G export speeds, is this indeed the case when pulling multiple files in parallel?
How stable is e2 overall? I've seen some downtime, however how long does it last and do they resolve it quickly?
Are there any real users who can answer these questions?
Has been stable for me over the last 10 months...apart from the last 2 days. My storage bucket in Frankfurt (Germany) has been down. Apparently, they are working on it.
Sure sounds like the 11 9’s they claim
I literally laughed out loud when I saw their FAQ stating 11 9s of uptime. That's maximum of 0.3 milliseconds (300 microseconds) of downtime a year.
The 11 9's are for data durability, not availability. Google cloud and AWS also have 11 9's claims for data durability.
It’s a pretty bad interpretation of 11 9’s durability if they can’t spin up one of the mirrors in place of the original within hours. Malicious compliance territory almost
You're once again referring to availability. Durability refers to data loss.
Yep I’m questioning how they reach that durability figure without being able to restore from the mirrors/backups that provide it within a reasonable timescale. They’re either telling porkies or it’s not entirely fit for purpose. Downtime beyond the time required to rewrite a 20TB disk is getting ridiculous
I don't think so, the 1:3 ratio is not enough
https://app.idrivee2.com/signup?special=true seems no this price, already tick the Veeam offer
it show as "S3 compatible Cloud Storage (7-day Free Trial with 1 TB)"
Running backups to their service. Works fine. 👌
yes. I'm seeing $40 not $20
may be its for new customers?
I'll send them a ticket and ask.
Yes, 7 day trial and then $10 for a year for 1TB if you actually buy something. Red button at the top.
I am running backups to their service too. Frankfurt has been down since Friday afternoon and still down now (almost 2.5 days later). Going to the web interface, I can't even see the bucket (just an error message and that they are working on it) so wouldn't be able to recover the files if I had to.
Where do they claim that? Can't find anything on the website.
Is there any info which control panel does it use?
https://min.io/