Case Study: Fin Film Company preserves 60TB+ of irreplaceable paddleboard footage and gains instant access with Backblaze

Fin Films searches for content and finds a secure, remotely accessible cloud archive

Fin Film Company — led by producer/director Chris Aguilar — faced a growing archive problem: years of award-winning paddleboard race footage spread across aging external drives (an estimated 20 TB that turned out to be much larger) left him vulnerable to drive failure and made fulfilling media requests a days‑ or weekends‑long task. To secure and access his irreplaceable content, he chose Backblaze B2 cloud storage and Backblaze’s Fireball rapid ingest service to get his library off physical drives and into the cloud.

Backblaze sent a 70 TB Fireball appliance (70 TB capacity, $550 rental for 30 days) that allowed Chris to consolidate roughly 60 TB of footage into Backblaze B2; iconik then ingested proxies and metadata for fast browsing. The result: content retrieval went from “several weekends” of manual searching to minutes via keyword search and quick sharing, enabled remote collaboration, and delivered the peace of mind of an off‑site archive — all at Backblaze’s low B2 pricing (about $5/ TB/month) and with scalable, instant access.

Fin Film Company

Chris Aguilar

Producer/Director