But–as Mozy Chief Marketing Officer Russ Stockdale pointed out to me–Carbonite ratchets down the speed of uploads if you use too much storage.

As of right now, it still charges $54.95 a year for unlimited backups for one computer–versus Mozy’s $65.89 for 50GB. Then there’s Mozy’s real arch-rival, Carbonite. In other words, if you own three computers and have a lot of data, Mozy might be your best choice if you have five computers but don’t need to store all that much, Norton might make more sense. That’s less than half of what Mozy charges for its three-PC plan–but Mozy offers five times as much space. Symantec’s Norton Online Backup charges $49.99 a year for 25GB of space for up to five computers. The more seriously Mozy subscribers have taken the “unlimited” plan, the less sustainable it’s become.ĭoing the math on how this compares to other options is tricky. Why the change? Mozy says that cheap high-end cameras, smartphones that capture HD video, and other advances have led to average users requiring more and more space and bandwidth, and that a small minority of customers use a lot. (Storing a terabyte of data–which some people did–will now cost almost $100 a month.) For anyone who wants to use Mozy with three PCs and can make do with a total of 125GB of space, however, the new pricing is a third cheaper than the old “unlimited” plan, since it would have required three separate $4.99 plans. For a minority of users who backed up immense amounts of data, it’ll be an increase so huge as to make the service unaffordable, which may be the idea. For new customers, the pricing takes effect immediately existing ones get keep the old prices until March 1st, and those who bought service in chunks of a year or more won’t see an increase until their current block of time runs out.įor most Mozy customers, the new pricing works out to a price hike of a buck a month, or twenty percent.

(In both cases, there are discounts if you sign up for a year or two years at a time.) You can add additional computers and/or extra 20GB blocks of storage for $2 a month apiece. Now there are two MozyHome plans: You can pay $5.99 a month for up to 50GB of backup space for one PC, or $9.99 a month for up to 125GB of space for three PCs. But depending on how you use the service, the revised options could cost you a little more or a lot more–or might save you money. On Monday, it announced plans to move to new pricing plans that involve both higher prices and fixed storage limits. Online backup kingpin Mozy built its business in part on an appealing, cheap-sounding offer: You could back up as much data to the cloud as you wanted for $4.99 a month.

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