Benchmarking different storage providers

Comparison
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No problem - inline table as noted.

Pretty much done with the testing now.

Conclusions (with commentary on cost side)

  • If backing up moderate data sets (less than 1 TB) then B2 would be most economical. Speed is not bad (aside from one major blow up in my testing) with pay-as-you-use model. Need to be careful with the restore cost though.

  • For large data sets - the winner is… Onedrive. With the MS Family Pack mentioned in the post (Experiences with OneDrive as a backup target - #5 by ttfn ) very economical for anything up to 5Tb with good performance (and you get MS Office as a freebie).

  • If speed is the only priority - then also can consider pcloud with using the virtual local drive. Speed of local backup with an separate cloud syncing happening. The firm is running an interesting 2Tb for life plan (but a rather high cost but breakeven after a couple of years compared to other paid services).

[[ Update ]]

further testing was done on S3 - see link below

In terms of conclusions - the above holds unless cost is not an issue and speed is highest priority - in that case S3 is clear winner (with caveats as noted in post

Provider Local HubiC Mega Onedrive Google pcloud Backblaze B2 Box (WebDav) pcloud (virtual) Jotta Box
Count 36 35 35 35 35 35 35 32 18 30 9
Avg 0:03 1:24 0:41 0:31 0:32 0:30 0:34 0:21 0:02 1:28 2:43
Rank 2 9 8 5 6 4 7 3 1 10 11
StdDev 0:03 0:47 0:20 0:21 0:22 0:30 0:20 0:07 0:03 0:33 0:30
95% Perc 0:11 2:57 1:20 1:14 1:16 1:30 1:14 0:36 0:09 2:34 3:43
Rank 2 10 7 4 6 8 5 3 1 9 11
Include Outliers
Provider Local HubiC Mega Onedrive Google pcloud Backblaze B2 Box (WebDav) pcloud (virtual) Jotta Box
Count 36 36 37 36 35 38 38 35 18 37 9
Avg 0:03 1:28 0:50 0:34 0:32 0:43 1:17 0:31 0:02 2:55 2:43
Rank 2 9 7 5 4 6 8 3 1 11 10
StdDev 0:03 0:50 0:44 0:25 0:22 0:53 3:40 0:35 0:03 3:39 0:30
95% Perc 0:11 3:06 2:18 1:23 1:16 2:29 8:29 1:41 0:09 10:05 3:43
Rank 2 8 6 4 3 7 10 5 1 11 9
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