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IDrive e2 decreased free egress from 3:1 to 1:1
manouchehri
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In addition to the price hike a few months ago, IDrive has silently decreased the egress policy from 3:1 to just a 1:1 ratio.
New policy:
Good fit - If the monthly egress (download) is less than or equal to your active storage volume.
https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/faq-pricing#egress-policy
Old policy:
Good fit - If the monthly egress (download) is less than or equal to thrice the storage volume.
https://e2help.idrive.com/hc/en-us/articles/10910766716573-IDrive-e2-pricing-policies
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they first increased pricing then, now this i cancelled my service with them last year.
Wasabi has also done something similar. Very fucking annoying.
Too bad. Their pricing has gone through the roof in just a few years while also they now reducing the resources.
if these cheap object storage service keep raising price, and the NVME price keep going down, why don't we keep all the data just in an unlimite bandwidth server with NVME? then no more crap api fees or something
They're pretty close in pricing to Backblaze B2 now.
Advantages of IDrive e2:
Advantages of Backblaze B2:
If you care about HA, I would recommend set up IDrive e2 Object Replication or Backblaze Cloud Replication. Both have too much downtime to rely on a single region (so in my opinion you have to 2x the storage prices, but I would say that for almost any provider other than AWS).
Spending sysadmin time isn't free for some of us sadly.
The S3 from Mega is by far the best value for money. Not sure how long they will last however.Everyone is shrinking, and I even think my self-built minio is pretty cost-effective now - but it's going to cost an ungodly amount of maintenance time.
Replication is a good advancement for e2, and much needed. It's been a great service regardless for me and my needs
Thanks, didn't know they had object storage! For a lot of people, the minimum €15.00/m for 3TB seems a bit high.
True, but they still offer triple export rates.
I think iDrive e2's "good fit" policy sucks, for sure, but I just downloaded twice the paid storage, and it was fine. If they complained, I was going to point out that I signed up and paid for a year with 3 times the egress, but I hate having to worry about it. I'm leaving them. The whole insane price increases, and the bandwidth shrink "just because we can" is too much.
Actually, I just found this email:
I downloaded the data twice. That email is outrageous for a service that was fully paid when it sold as 3 times egress.
I store all backups on Backblaze and the more recent ones on Cloudflare as well. Works great
If anything NVMe pricing went up when you buy enterprise grade equipment, because someone (Samsung for example) inflate the pricing by reducing the NAND production.
Look at PM9A3 3.84TB for example:
I use iDrive e2 as backup for Storj. It's cheap and I only archive so it's OK. Storj is my primary and I like it better and also I got $25 in credit each month for five years as a sign of appreciation for my open source work
For whatever it's worth, I messaged iDrive e2 support about the bait and switch of selling me 3 times egress that's now 1 times.
They sent back a 100% generic response referencing the current policy.
If it were month-to-month, sure, they could change it, but you can't have a customer pre-pay for a year then change the terms to be worse. What if your use case scenario had you downloading 2.5 times the amount of data stored every month?
Fortunately, my account ends next month, and I'm totally out of there. Buyer beware.
We use IDrive e2 for our primary storage for all our storage workloads and it looks like their free egress is 3x now.
I just looked at their e2 page, and incredibly, it now says "Download less than or equal to 3X your active storage volume for free!" They literally replied to my support ticket 2 days ago with "As per the current egress policy, you can only download the amount of data which you have uploaded."
I guess the cancellations were too many to ignore. Still, it makes them look unprofessional. iDrive was never the cream of the crop when it came to S3 storage providers. You went with them for price, not performance. Whoever decided to make this change seriously misjudged iDrive's position in the market.
Higher availability, if a drive fails, then your data is gone.
More bandwidth, if you're using object storage for content delivery, then you can get much higher throughput than what your server can provide.
On the other hand, you have to pay for requests like you said and you're at the mercy of the provider, so they can rate limit you (Backblaze B2) or have an outage (Cloudflare R2) at any time.
It's 5x, not 3x. But there's the 15 euros upfront cost.
is Maga OSS finished thier beta? their price is so good, however i didn't see the limits on their site, is it a good OSS service to deliver HLS streaming file?
Yes, they're out of beta. No, I haven't tried them because they have a free egress limit.
everyone has egress limit, if you use CDN, x5 egress bandwidth should be enough for your project, or you don't want to use CDN, that's another story
For backups, it can be.
I think I'm misremembering, all in all, quite generous. But I'm not sure how long this will last. It even seems a little too generous to me.
just wanted to comment, we have been seing more and more corrupted data on idrive S3 (resulting on losing data). plus some network congestion since few weeks already.
We escaped from Wasabi, because they lost/corrupted data.
now the same with idrive S3, and we just have 50TB with them, and less than a year, and they have already screw all up.
ah... you need backup server for your object storage, sounds wired but it's ture
maybe, but seeing data corruption in wasabi and now in idrive2, seems they are not reliable at all.
why would anyone store 100-200tb or more with them, if they can corrupt data or "lose" few files every few thousand files (Wich makes backups worthless). plus, that's after the data is stored and verified, so is something you can't keep track of.
Well, you shouldn't keep all your eggs in one basket anyway. You should duplicate them to multiple types baskets and put one of them far away from the others.
3-2-1
three copies
two types of media
one off-site
99.999999999 (nine nines) data integrity doesn't help you if you store 10,000,000,000 bits of data, because one bit will statistically not be accounted for.