techcrunch.com— Google Drive and Amazon S3 competitor Omnidrive is currently in private beta. Today Techcrunch posted some exclusive screenshots and details of the service.
Jul 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
I don't see this working out.....lets face it the majority of stuff that most people have on their harddrives is either A. Work RelatedB. ConfidentialC. PornD. Pirated Music and MoviesWhy in the hell would anyone use anything like this?Especially when I would have to redownload all of my stuff anyhoweven with Verizon FIOS this wouldn't be practical
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The concept of on-line storage is worth a look. Though as stated many times above privacy issues abound. Though everything you have ever sent over the Internet is stored, backed up or residing on some other computer somewhere. In the age of electronic information nothing is really that "private" if someone wants to get to it. I would suggest the ever popular portable drives they keep falling in price if privacy is your main concern and you just want to carry some data with you. The overall viability of such on-line storage is great in concept but do you really need access to such data anywhere in the world ? Or is burning a CD for family too hard now adays or how about a few emails sent for pictures ? I dunno just some thoughts
brandizzleJul 26, 2006
I'd say it's wrong, because it has "and". 1 and 2 ARE in beta. 2, 1's competitor, IS in beta.
timdiggJul 26, 2006
I don't see this working out.....lets face it the majority of stuff that most people have on their harddrives is either A. Work RelatedB. ConfidentialC. PornD. Pirated Music and MoviesWhy in the hell would anyone use anything like this?Especially when I would have to redownload all of my stuff anyhoweven with Verizon FIOS this wouldn't be practical
digeratiprimeJul 26, 2006
Excellent Point. Ive been wanting a "gDrive" to upload some containers I created with TrueCrypt and maybe also a encrypted KeePass database file.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2006
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DraconisNoctemJul 26, 2006
The concept of on-line storage is worth a look. Though as stated many times above privacy issues abound. Though everything you have ever sent over the Internet is stored, backed up or residing on some other computer somewhere. In the age of electronic information nothing is really that "private" if someone wants to get to it. I would suggest the ever popular portable drives they keep falling in price if privacy is your main concern and you just want to carry some data with you. The overall viability of such on-line storage is great in concept but do you really need access to such data anywhere in the world ? Or is burning a CD for family too hard now adays or how about a few emails sent for pictures ? I dunno just some thoughts
zoom1928Jul 26, 2006
Interesting but what protocols do they support? Their web page doesn't say. rsync? SMB? AFS? Coda? scp? NCP?