They do have a compliance setting which is extra to Object Lock so maybe they both need to be set up to the same timeframe.įor now I have decided to go with Wasabi for 3 reasons: upload speed, data center in Toronto (where my company is) and usage by Veeam customers as it can be seen in the forums.

They are the most renowned in Veeam forums and my only concern is that I could delete objects in their website that I marked as immutable in Veeam. They are the newest company but they are growing fast and the only dedicated object storage company out of the 3 (the other two do PC backup sand other stuff). Wasabi: They are the most expensive for storage fees and also the only ones that impose a minimum retention period of 30 days (to Veeam customers, 90 days to others).Their founders are selling stocks for the next year so the future of this company is uncertain and makes me nervous picking them up for my company data. They are a well established company but since they went public their stock value has been dropping a lot. The lack of data centers is also a concern. Backblaze: It's the slowest of the 3 options and their high egress fees are a big issue for me.However the fact that they did not showed up in any of the Veeam forums is a concern and they are also the smallest company out of the 3 in terms of revenue and number of employees so their existence in this space is the questionable.

The immutability worked out of the box and their UI is possibly the best one (Wasabi is very close in this area). The upload speeds (second place) and lack of data center in Canada is a minus for me. iDrive: It's without a doubt the cheapest of all 3 options.Search matches in Veeam Object Storage forums (as of 2):īackblaze: Slow to show bucket contents when it contains large amounts of blocks. Upload speed to closest region (to Toronto using 1Gbps fiber connection): Upload speeds (averaged out of 3 tests per region using 30GB vbk and large block):īackblaze (USA - West): 60 MB/s * could be Sacramento or Phoenix 21 MB/s latest Maybe I need to set compliance in their UI to match Veeam immutability settings but seems cumbersome. Wasabi: Compatible but objects could be deleted on their website. IDrive and Wasabi: Compatible and objects cannot be deleted on their website. Wasabi: Minimum 30 days for Veeam customers plan (90 days for regular customers) Wasabi: Free up to 1X the total storage in a monthīackblaze: $0.004 to $0.040 per 10,000 with 2,500 free per day IDrive: Free up to 3X the total storage in a month Wasabi: $5.99/TB/month (Discounts over 50TB on 1, 3 or 5 years upfront)

IDrive: $4.09/TB/month ($40/TB/year $4/TB/year for first year Promo) I started using and testing 3 object storage providers in the past month: Wasabi, Backblaze B2 and iDrive E2 and here are my findings. So I decided to write this post for other Veeam customers out there doing the same research, and hopefully it helps them in their decision. There are many object storage providers out there but I could not find any comparisons on these forums. This prompted me into looking at other object storage providers that offered cheaper storage and no API (PUT) transaction costs. First, I tried changing all our backup jobs to use Large Blocks (4MB) to reduce the API calls (which were very high using the default block size of 1MB) which helped reducing our costs by 25%, but increased the incrementals size considerably (using more precious space of our Performance Tier storage). I have been using Azure cool storage as our Capacity Tier for several months, however I wanted to reduce costs since our data keeps growing and API transaction costs represented almost 50% of our bill.

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