how does dropbox get away with absurd pricing? people should not buy that and force them to come with some reasonable prices.
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Is Dropbox still the best for cloud storage?
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In the aftermath of the Edward Snowden / NSA scandal, I am using wuala.com. Fully encrypted, servers in Switzerland, Germany and France. these countries have very stringent data protection laws.
Anyhow, wuala is a really clever solution.
As an alternative you can use boxcryptor on top of your dropbox, google drive or skydrive. It's made by a German software house. Very reliable and keeps data away from the prying eyes of governments and other criminals.
Anyhow, wuala is a really clever solution.
As an alternative you can use boxcryptor on top of your dropbox, google drive or skydrive. It's made by a German software house. Very reliable and keeps data away from the prying eyes of governments and other criminals.
besides the privacy aspect how does wuala compare to dropbox in features, ease of use, mac and ios intregration and all that?
I won't be renewing with them. I have 23GB of free storage with them so that's more than enough to do what I need to use it for (app syncing/backup, camera uploads as a temp storage place until I can get them moved elsewhere, documents I need for work, e-books and pdf books, and MS Office files).
I see no need to buy them for 100GB's when I can pay the same amount anywhere else and get 2-2.5x the space. If I were to choose one going forward, it would be Copy.
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I'm sure they have the backdoor keys to it.
I just started using Cubby for my main doc syncing. Why because you can point to whichever folder you want to sync. You don't have to put whatever you want synced into their one folder like dropbox and all the others. Sugarsync does this too but they just started charging so I moved to cubby.
I still use dropbox for other syncing across devices like notes and things. I have 50G free with Box but don't use it. Shame because they have the nicest app. Copy is nice too and you can get tons of free storage. 5G for every invite you give yourself.
I still use dropbox for other syncing across devices like notes and things. I have 50G free with Box but don't use it. Shame because they have the nicest app. Copy is nice too and you can get tons of free storage. 5G for every invite you give yourself.
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Are you saying you want Dropbox to charge you more ? Aren't you happy if the low price drop box charges you ?
Regardless, I still use DropBox (free) as its all i need... that was last year...
Another solution is private cloud storage... attach your external drive to this and stream like crazy:
http://www.filetransporter.com/
This could be good, since you just hold a hard drive to it, so storage is as much, (or as little) as you like.... Optically, spend a bit more up-front, and it has hard drives built in. I'm looking into one of these since i prefer to keep iOS for my apps alone..
as if i carry enough gadgets round with me
Or for people who don't trust cloud storage.
Are you saying you want Dropbox to charge you more ? Aren't you happy if the low price drop box charges you ?
Regardless, I still use DropBox (free) as its all i need... that was last year...
Another solution is private cloud storage... attach your external drive to this and stream like crazy:
http://www.filetransporter.com/
This could be good, since you just hold a hard drive to it, so storage is as much, (or as little) as you like.... Optically, spend a bit more up-front, and it has hard drives built in. I'm looking into one of these since i prefer to keep iOS for my apps alone..
as if i carry enough gadgets round with me
Or for people who don't trust cloud storage.
Whoa. I may need to look into this.
edit: Nevermind. This is a pointless product.
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I wouldn't expect them to adjust the amount of storage they offer for the price anytime soon. They're still starting people out with 2GB free, when everyone else is offering much more (Sky Drive = 7GB; Google/Copy = 15GB; Box = 10GB).
It doesn't seem to bother them that everyone else also gives 2x the space for the price.
I guess they are doing what works for them.
Bit Torrent Sync. I'm not a fan of keeping private files on companies' servers, when they have possibly been sharing information with the government. Plus, I have a 500GB partition on a Linux server at three different locations dedicated to it, so it works out well. Not great iOS app integration though, since it's relatively new.
Interesting. Horrible name though. Sounds like a virus. Aside from the lack of storage limits how does this differ from other cloud companies? Their video seem to mainly promote sharing large files.
No less pointless than a home file server or a NAS. Technically, it is a NAS, just a much smaller one.
You forgot hubiC and its 25GB, no file size restriction. Of course they don't have to be the best since they made many editors sign contract with them to integrate it.
They have PROBABLY been sharing information with the government. Unless proven otherwise, you'll be treated as guilty.
The technical difference is fundamental. Instead of going from your device number 1, to the company's central servers, then to device number 2, it goes straight from device 1 to device 2. At least one device needs to stay online for your to access your data. This isn't required with traditional cloud settings as company's servers are usually online 24/7.
However I highly doubt the government doesn't already have the keys to any supposedly "private" file transfer. As of
How is it much different from a WD MyBook Live, for example? That one is really a small NAS, without frills.
In practice, I don't think the WD Live and the Transporter are any different (I own neither). NAS is just shorthand for Network Attached Storage (i.e.: any storage mechanism connected to through your network as opposed to direct-attached storage). That includes things like the Drobo & Synology, as well as the smaller ones like the WD Live and Transporter.
From a specs/features/price standpoint, I'd agree that the WD Cloud wins. (Which, by the way, thanks for pointing that one out. It's a really good price for what you get.)
However, I still don't think the transporter is "pointless".
Well the transporter is more than 2x more expensive than the WD MyCloud, I guess it must have many additional features?
No. Look at my previous post, where I conceded that the WD cloud was probably a much better value on capacity alone, not to mention on a few additional features. Transporter is owned by Drobo, which is usually more expensive.
However, there is also the intangible aspect, which makes it difficult to compare Apples to Apples. Some people might like the aesthetics of the Transporter more than the MyCloud (myself included). Others may have sworn off Western Digital drives due to bad experiences in the past.
There's enough room in the market for multiple offerings to compete. Heck, we're talking about this in a thread on Dropbox, which is also higher priced with fewer features. Yet Dropbox can still be competitive.
I've never seen any good reason to switch from DropBox. It syncs files between my Macs, PCs, iPad, and iPhone seamlessly, has never had any downtime I noticed, and offers 10+ GB of space for free. I've used Box and SkyDrive (and I use iCloud, of course, but that's totally different) but and they were okay (Box better than SkyDrive, but that was a while ago, they've probably improved). I don't see any reason to switch though because DropBox is awesome and free.
Sure the WD MyCloud design is rather ordinary. At least it will blend in any setting.
Dropbox only offers 2GB, and a bit more when other applications are linked, but still a far cry from also free hubiC's offers, also free.
And I think a point easily missed is that 2GB is actually enough for plenty of users so extra space with no effective cost difference (but less integration and the effort of moving) means plenty of users will just stay with Dropbox as a perfectly sensible buying decision....
I'm up to 5GB free with DB, I'm using 2GB but have no need to move so won't....
Indeed 2GB may be enough. I currently have 5.8GB due to linking with various applications, but moved almost everything to hubiC (as simple as a drag'n'drop BTW, so moving is a non-issue. Integration can be, as Dropbox has the advantage to have been the first on the market - plus it's american, so more people are aware of it). I do use this cloud storage to sync courses notes, as well as multi-hundreds movies I'm required to watch, and am still concerned about US warrantless snooping on innocent user's data.