It was Backblaze’s native app that made it my online backup of choice so many years ago and the company continues to get that. Recently Backblaze released version 8 of their Mac client increasing threads from 30 to 100 and changing the way the app interacts with your file system to reduce the load on your hard drive. So this new version is faster and better. Just a few days ago Jason Snell wrote about the importance of backing up. Backblaze is a key component of my backup system. It’s like my data safe deposit box and the $50/year cost is a no-brainer.