Yeah, it’s really optimized for long term storage. Glacier storage has a 3 month minimum. Even if you delete your upload after a day, you still pay for the full three months at full price. Which makes the Polar Backup lifetime offer all the more baffling, or suspect. If I do a 5TB back up and they load it to Glacier, that’s $60 minimum because they have to pay for a full three months at $0.004 per GB/mo, not including the upload charge. Plus there are separate upload and retrieval fees. Even if they were to terminate my account immediately after upload, they’d still lose money since they don’t gel the full $70 after Stack Social’s cut.
One thing to note in the Anandtech thread on Polar Backup is that people said they found it impossible to actually back up all of their files to Polar Backup.
After 4 days of continuous running, managed to backup just 100GB(!).
It seems possible that that buggy experience could be more by design than by accident.
