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- Al3x, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75Ya, 1GB a month is a joke. You can put 25GB on there, and it'll take you over 2 years to get it back off.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36Will try this service out right away. Thanks for the link. I'm going to sign up before it get overloaded. :)
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Downside: Bandwidth of 1GB/month... that's pretty pathetic. - rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Still waiting for Gdrive.
- lsdeath, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Knew I needed to check the comments before signing up.
- titchard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20What made me laugh was the Spec Needed for the uploader software!
Minimum CPU 233Mhz (Recommended: AMD Dual Core X2+ 4200+ and above!)
WTF?! Dual Core! for UPLOADING!!!?
Rich - zeeeej, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Technically, it says 1GB per month of "downloads", not "bandwidth".
Of course, if you're actually using this for backup, you'll need to upgrade to their pay service to get your data back. - Dolemack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16It is just Streamload rebranded. Signed up but never use it.
- Pie_Man, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Just open 25 accounts...upload the full 25 gig to all of them. If you have a catastrophic failure where you need the data back you can get it.
- yellowhill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Read their blog's comments around problems with the recent "upgrade" and you'll never want to touch this...
http://blog.streamload.com/?p=65#comments - itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11spam then
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12http://www.rarhost.com is fairly good too, 300mb size limit PER file - unlimited files allowed, no download bandwidth limit, free member account for management.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Faster processors make the valves work faster, hence you get your internets quicker.
- lenny4422, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10People like online storage because they can use it to do offsite backups. So in the event that their computer/media is destroyed by fire/flood/other or stolen. They will still have backups of their systems. Plus they can easily access the data from any other computer connected to the tubes.
- Flinty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Never been keen on giving people access to my files...
- ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8They give you 25GB of space but only allow you 1GB of bandwidth per month.
That doesn't make any sense at all. - achoo5000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8have you seen Gmail Space firefox extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1593/ - scooterbaga, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Come it's not that bad. It'll only take you a little over two years to use all the space.
- olegk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7why would I pay even $50/year, when I can buy a HDD for that much?
- MikeCerm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I already have a G: Drive. It's a 400GB Seagate.
Since broadband connections are so asymetrical (I get 750KB down, and only 25 KB up), I can't really be bothered to move huge amounts of data off-site. Having an external drive is just a lot easier, and if I want to share, I can just hand DVDs to my friends and family.
I do use FolderShare though. Unlimited storage and bandwidth, it's only limited by my connection.
@ jbsnyder
FolderShare is PC/Mac, and let's you create sync'ed folders on different computers. - Denster23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yea I have a Streamload account right now and it still states that my limit is 3GB...I can go to upgrade my account...choose the free 25GB, and it still says limit of 3GB.
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Don't mod yellowhill down, he has a valid point. There are a large number of comments on that blog page describing numerous technical issues. I'd imagine the service is still new, possibly being overwhelmed right now, but if you're trusting them to back up your data, you might want to have multiple backups..
- attractivetb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@SobyOne
This seems like a ludicrous amount of effort. - Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7It's 1GB download band, not upload - you can upload as much as you like.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9http://mihd.net allows you to upload up to 1111 MB files
and no download limits
abd best of all there is a classic inteface for linux users so they can upload! - mrpickle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5come on guys - just visit the renamed service with out AMD branding... http://www.mediamax.com
- AM088, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I really want to fill up those 25 GB of space just for fun...
- robdavy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@ diggitydank
"I can throw together a linux box or a networked hard drive and keep it at another location, e.g., my parents basement, and regularly send my important files there via rsync or something similar "
Ah yes, a solution for the common man... - yalskey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No, just downloading. Some of the people here are implying that it would take 2 years to upload your data... that's not true. But it would take 2 years to download it.
- diggitydank, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5How many "commom men" do you know that even bother to back up their data? How many "common men" know that online storage servies even exist?
- phlll, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Scam.
- Alex.w, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Making it secure (enough) would be easy. Just encrypt everything before you upload it. When I have to store files some where I don't trust a make a crypto loopback device, mount hat and dump all the files on there.
- Himself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Do I have to be an AOL subscriber to get 5GB of free online space?
Simply use your AOL screenname. If you don't have one, you can create one for free."
Even then if you 'use it too much' they might terminate your account if you don't pay the upgrade extortion. fun! So they suck almost as much as Netflix.
"YOUR CONSUMPTION OF XDRIVE SERVICES MAY BE DEEMED EXCESSIVE IF, WITHIN ANY MONTH, YOUR USAGE GREATLY EXCEEDS THE AVERAGE LEVEL OF MONTHLY USAGE OF CUSTOMERS OF XDRIVEÂ’S FREE SERVICE GENERALLY. IN THE EVENT YOU ARE DEEMED TO HAVE VIOLATED THIS POLICY, XDRIVE MAY ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY YOU OF THE VIOLATION VIA EMAIL AND OFFER TO UPGRADE YOU TO A PAID SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. IF YOU ELECT NOT TO UPGRADE, XDRIVE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT." - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://rapidshare.de/files/33297475/create_Dummy_file.exe
;) - hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"How many "commom men" do you know that even bother to back up their data? How many "common men" know that online storage servies even exist?"
Exactly. Time Machine. - Himself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what happens if you buy a car and stop making your payments?
- sphinxzhu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3is there any service that supports rsync???
- bball2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Kinda disappointing -_-
25 gigs storage, 1 gig download limit, 25 mb send limit ?? - festriaqua, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3same here... and the 1gb dl limit blows
- dark_ryan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does this service run on OS X 10.4.6? I have no ability to upgrade to OS X 10.4.8, but I can dual boot, so is it only Windows. It would be appriciated if someone told me :-)!
- alchemista, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6What's the use of 25GB when you can only do 1GB/month? So it's going to take me over 2 years to ever upload my capacity, and then I'd have to wait another 2 years to ever download everything I uploaded?
I still haven't figured out these services yet, I'd rather put a 4GB flash drive in my pocket. - razicop, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1we will get 25 GB free storage, wow this is really great news, thank you very much for this!
- Th3BlkGh05T, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was offered a free 50 GB Xdrive account from AOL... I've got no complaints about it (until I get a network storage drive as of which I'll drop that Xdrive like a brick), and frankly 1 GB of transfer per month is pathetic. I'll stick with Xdrive...
- trinculo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Read the EULA for this. Not liking that fact they can use the information to monitor my usage and create a profile based on it to sell to their partners. This allows them to send me "Promotional Offers" based on that profile. Though lower lower lower down there is an option to Opt Out of this. Though I doubt anyone would actually be able to see that.
- xasx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3For all the people complaining about the 1gb d/l. If you need a real backup solution online, then you have to pay for it, bandwidth and servers are not free.
This is great since you can upload, for example, all your digital pictures. If your computer ever blew up, you can pay the money to upgrade and actually get them back. If you have a 400gb Seagate, it won't matter when a flood or tornado rips it apart. Some things need to be backed up online, and unless you have hosting that you pay for, this seems like a great solution. - culbeda, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What "spyware" are they including? Their site was dugg to death while I was browsing it and I never had a chance to sign up and test it.
- xasx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Anyone know any good software to upload files by ftp to your own host (pref free) automatically as backup.
- Linh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@alex,
the problem is then you'd have to upload full changes. i'd like something rsync like.. block level changes. but all encrypted by me. heh... the only way i see that working is dropping my own box somewhere. or pay gobs of money for it to a reliable company. but my data isn't quite THAT important. - HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2meh :( "Hso" is used already.. who keeps beating me to that username!! >:(
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Server not responding when trying to create the account...
- DeejayLupo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Despite bandwidth limit, I do like the fact that I would at least have an offsite spot as a backup in case something happened.
And you can't knock free.
Let's see if this actually can handle the bandwidth and storage demands.. -
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