Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage vs. Cubby (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.N/A
Cubby (Discontinued)
Score 4.8 out of 10
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Cubby was a file sync, file sharing, and cloud storage offering from GoTo (formerly LogMeIn, Inc). It was discontinued in 2016.N/A
Pricing
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTwo pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.
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Community Pulse
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
Considered Both Products
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides the flexibility to have a pay-as-you-go model and a fixed-price model. Depending upon our needs, we can choose one. There is no minimum storage duration, so the data can be deleted at any time.
As we have low egress needs, and we require the …
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 offers more affordable storage per byte, supports the de-facto standard Amazon S3 protocol, and has free egress.
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for …
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage is the best of the bunch. It's priced better than the more expensive cloud based solutions and more robust than the file storage sites like DropBox or Google Drive.
Chose Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Backblaze is definitely the cheapest and most cost effective out of the 6 other services I've used in the past.

For personal use, they are by and away the best service available. For business use, I believe they are a very strong contender to be the #3 guys behind AWS and Linode.
Cubby (Discontinued)
Chose Cubby (Discontinued)
I think Cubby is very comparable with all the others such as Drop Box, OneDrive, Box, and Google Drive. They all do similar things. But, I am not aware that the others will let you secure a document that is particularly sensitive in nature.
Chose Cubby (Discontinued)
Cubby is especially new in the market and is contemplating its business focus. They have adapted what their predecessors have created and implemented significant improvements in safety, performance and availability.
Features
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
7.8
Ratings
7% below category average
Cubby (Discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
Versioning7.80 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Video files8.40 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Audio files8.40 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Document collaboration7.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Access control7.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
File search5.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Device sync10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
7.9
Ratings
9% below category average
Cubby (Discontinued)
8.2
Ratings
5% below category average
User and role management7.80 Ratings8.00 Ratings
File organization6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Device management10.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
9.3
Ratings
7% above category average
Cubby (Discontinued)
9.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Performance8.70 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Reliability9.10 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Storage Reports10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
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Score 3.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageCubby (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Though it offers fewer features than competitors, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage provides an affordable solution for backup and archiving. Its low cost storage acts as a backbone to many small-scale enterprises. However, where low latency in data transfer and more granular permissions over the data are required, in my experience, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage doesn't fit well.
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For the business public, solutions like One Drive may seem somewhat complex and solutions such as Dropbox or Google Drive may be too basic. Cubby gives you that balance sought by small and medium enterprises.
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Pros
  • Tight integration with OEM backup application
  • Among the lowest price per TB cloud backup provider
  • AWS S3 service integration
  • Optional services for initial seeding of large backup data sets
  • Optional services for physical backup retrieval to speed up recovery
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  • Files sync
  • Files storage
  • Security and Availability
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Cons
  • My chief complaint about the former lack of S3 compatibility was resolved so I have no complaints now.
  • Please keep egress free!
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  • Since we are already a LogMeIn Rescue customer we are a fan of their products. We really do not see a lot that Cubby does not do for us that we need to do.
  • It would be nice to have a built-in password manager/keeper to share using the Cubby cloud storage. Users can share files in a secure manner, so why not be able to share passwords with them securely as well.
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Usability
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage offers affordable pricing compared to its competitors. It's a no brainer storage solution for small scale enterprises. It is widely used for storage media and large object files that can be accessed across the globe. With all these, there is still some room for improvement over the features and the latency
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Secure, simple, and easy to use and has all the features that we require.
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Support Rating
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The LogMeIn company has always been very helpful and quick to respond to all of our support requests and just "how to" question we may have.
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Alternatives Considered
Because they continuously had times they required updating the account and there were hiccups when that happened, over time, I became skeptical of their ability to keep my files secure. They were the first cloud backup storage company I had ever used and I stayed with them for almost two decades. Then it happened that we did have to do a recovery two different times because of hardware failures. It was anything but a smooth or complete recovery, and their price kept rising as their service declined. Hundreds of files were totally lost in the process. I guessed that among their strategies, it might well have been a re-focus on their part to build up their enterprise accounts and didn't seem to care about small business. I finally had enough and left them as a client.
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I think Cubby is very comparable with all the others such as Drop Box, OneDrive, Box, and Google Drive. They all do similar things. But, I am not aware that the others will let you secure a document that is particularly sensitive in nature
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Return on Investment
  • We haven't had any data loss situations yet, however I'm sure our ROI will be fairly high if we have to recover any data. Backblaze is in the insurance industry, not storage.
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  • Saves on-site storage resources by allowing for file sharing in the cloud.
  • Nice to be able to share files with someone that happens to be working off-site.
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ScreenShots

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

Screenshot of Files are stored in BucketsScreenshot of B2 Cloud Storage Dashboard