![]() I also think this is huge for a lot of other people. It has been absolutely thrilling to see Backblaze go from a company in a one-bedroom apartment in 2007 to a player on the global IaaS stage. There’s nothing like a team yearning to offer an alternative to services from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google and making it a reality. But “jump up and down huge.” Before getting into all the details, I have to thank the entire team for all of their hard work, late nights and unabashed enthusiasm. Backblaze B2 offers cloud storage similar to Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure storage, and Google Cloud Storage-but at a much lower cost. Often referred to as infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or object storage, it provides the ability to store, retrieve and/or share data and scale up and down, while only paying for what you use. ![]() What Is Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage?ī2 Cloud Storage is a service that enables developers, IT people, and everyone else to store data in the cloud. Can you give me direct access to your cloud storage?” After a year of hard work and tremendous excitement from our team, I’m delighted that today the answer is, “Yes!” We are announcing a brand new service, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage. See our updated Backblaze B2 Cost Calculator.Įver since we open-sourced the original Backblaze Storage Pod and shared our storage costs, people have been saying, “I love your backup service, but I need a place to just store data. In which case, it is Google Drive that isn't the correct tool for the job, rather than MC.Editor’s note: On March 9, 2018, Backblaze dropped the price of Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage downloads from $0.02 to $0.01 per GB. Or maybe Google Drive is the real problem, and deliberately so. It does use read-ahead buffering which may solve the playback problems. So perhaps ExpanDrive could make playback work for you. If you plan to play huge files continuously it is better to Trial ExpanDrive before purchasing to make sure it meets your needs. If you hit that limit - your speed goes down regardless of the quality of your connection and it dissolves within specific set of time set by Google. However, we let you know that there are some rate API limitation when connecting to Google Drive set by Google. If I was to use ExpanDrive with Google Drive for storing and playing back large lossless music files, would ExpanDrive handle all the file buffering required to ensure continuous playback without pauses?ĮxpanDrive should handle that. On Thu, at 10:27 AM, "roderickgi"> wrote: I asked ExpanDrive about your issue, and learned something important. The drawback is that you need room to store all the files on the PC itself. Is there a reason you're using something other than the regular Google Drive app? That one actually synchronizes files from the local hard drive to the cloud, so instead of trying to load a file that is being streamed behind the scenes, you'd be loading a regular file from your local hard drive that just happens to be kept in sync via Google Drive. You may still get pauses between tracks as they load, but buffering pauses between tracks is better than in the middle of them. I'd try someone else's suggestion of memory playback first that is, buffering the entire file instead of just part of it. I'm imagining you don't really mean this- you probably mean without lots of pauses to fill the buffer, right? Buffering (pre-loading a bunch of data into memory so that playback can be kept going smoothly even as the loading of the rest of the data varies in speed) is actually the solution to the problem it sounds like you are having. Jim has a whole topic on this, following the issues with streaming services: Though, granted, with larger services like Google's Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive this is not really likely to happen, you just never know. Cloud storage providers could easily pull a Megaupload and suddenly discontinue/shutdown their services, then you'll lose your entire music collection unless you have a local backup. Same with using cloud storage for storing large music collections. Streaming services like this are pretty unreliable, they could be "here today, gone tomorrow". Tidal loses money every year so it's only a matter of time before they fold or another company like Apple buys them. That, and I don't think Tidal is here to stay for the long term. At least in my case, I'll never use a streaming service like Tidal to replace my personal music collection - I have stuff that Tidal doesn't even have in their catalog and likely never will.
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