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When my wife and I got married in 2010, our first dance was to "Roslin & Adama."

Thanks for such a nice piece for us geeks!

Hey I’ve ridden BART before. No need to be rude.

Adam here. I work on our team that handles USB restores.

It can take a while - it's highly dependent on the number of files, and total amount of data. And unfortunately USB is not the fastest interface. In the mean time you can do smaller restores via zip downloads if you need access to some key files while the drive is being prepared.

Sort of related - we underestimated the demand for 8 TB restores when we introduced them in January, so we ran a bit behind during that time period on all USB restores, but have since caught up.

With that said, most are shipped out within about ~3 business days of ordering for average sized restores. If you're regularly seeing 2+ weeks, please PM me here or shoot me an email (adam at backblaze dot com) and I'll take a look.

Adam from Backblaze here.

We thought of rentals of restore media as well since sometimes you just need to get the data, not keep the drive!

We've been offering our Restore Return Refund program for just over three years now and it's been a huge success. The way it works is you purchase a hard drive ($189) or flash drive ($99), and within 30 days of receiving it, return it to us. We'll refund the entire purchase price. The only out of pocket expense you'll occur is return shipping.

It's available to our personal backup, business backup, and B2 cloud storage customers, limited to 5 returns within a 12 month period.

With Pod v5.0 we started using 10GBase-T on the motherboard since the talk between pods increased with our switchover to 17+3 sharding of files for redundancy. Older pods get a 10GBase-T card installed when they go through a refurb cycle.