B2: Understanding fees to (temporarily) store and dl many TB
Hey everybody,
Just a homelabber trying to understand the fee calculation--particular for egress--to temporarily store a large number of terabytes in B2.
The storage fees are simple to understand. If for example I stored 30 TB for ten days: (30 TB) * (~$0.231666 per TB per day) * (10 days) = ~$69.50
For egress, I know we are allotted 3x our average monthly stored data as free egress. If I understand correctly, this average stored data is calculated on a byte/hour basis across the entire billing period. So--in theory--if I were to store the example 30 TB in B2 for a third of the month (10 days), this would raise my average monthly stored data by approx. 10 TB; allowing for approx. 30 TB of free egress. How would this work if the example 10 day period were to cross to the next billing period? Is it calculated off of a rolling 30-day window?
I understand the maximum egress fee I would incur for 30 TB would be $300, so even cutting that in half would be a much easier pill to swallow. 😅
Thanks for any insight!!
Situation:
- longtime customer of B2 which I use for offsite backups of critical data, very very little egress. enough that I've never really considered the price.
- homelab user reformatting entire 100 TB array, need to temporarily relocate stored capacity (~80 TB).
- I have offline storage to offload roughly half of the total stored capacity myself.
- looking to offload remaining capacity to B2 temporarily to save my sanity (and my wallet).