"Looking for free, reliable cloud storage?Dropbox offers 2GB, while SugarSync gives you 5GB. "
I would rather pay a very measly $5 a month for 50GB for the reliability that the company I use has a stable business model and is likely to be around in 2 years time.
Are you referring to stable business model dropbox whovery recently had a retarded grade A fuck up where anyone can access your data. If you stick to the reassuringly expensive theme you better grab another Stella Artois.
Is there a good, encrypted cloud storage provider? I'm subscribed to SpiderOak but it's not very good. I'm not sure if that's because the problem is inherently hard, but it has a lot of trouble even syncing, it freezes a lot, etc.
I just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.
I've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though.
I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with a Phenom 945 and a SSD.
I'll give it another shot, I've also set old backups to happen daily rather than continuously, which helps. We shouldn't have to make these workarounds, though.
It irks me that dropbox is the only one that gets this right :-\",
Wuala seems much better than SpiderOak, but I have a suspicion that they encrypt each file separately. I can live with that, though, if it makes the client better, and Wuala is almost perfect, apart from the fact that it doesn't use inotify :/
I'll probably still switch to it, just not use it for everything.
This deal is useless. You get 50 GB but no desktop client for syncing (that costs extra $$$), so if you want to upload your 50 GB through clunky web-based interface, be my guest.
But if you get 50gb for life surely it could come in handy later. I mean Ubuntu recently made moves to turn your Android device into your Desktop PC [1] and who knows how far this sort of thing could go in the next few years. To me it sounds worth trying just on a speculative front.
Back when I had a look at box.net, they provided a WebDAV interface to the storage, so it should be easily to integrate with most devices and configurations.
"Now for the bad news: Box doesn't do file-syncing the way Dropbox and SugarSync do. There is a desktop component called Box Sync, but it's available only to Business and Enterprise account holders." #fail
I hope the price wars don't affect the reliability of those services. I'm a heavy user of dropbox and the most important files I have (family photos etc) are also stored there.
Microsoft is offering 25 GB on SkyDrive - and at least for now, they're not limiting you to the online interface. I use it with Android, and so far never needed more than a gigabyte, but you can always register multiple accounts if you want...
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I would rather pay a very measly $5 a month for 50GB for the reliability that the company I use has a stable business model and is likely to be around in 2 years time.
It irks me that dropbox is the only one that gets this right :-\",
http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox
I'll probably still switch to it, just not use it for everything.
But if you get 50gb for life surely it could come in handy later. I mean Ubuntu recently made moves to turn your Android device into your Desktop PC [1] and who knows how far this sort of thing could go in the next few years. To me it sounds worth trying just on a speculative front.
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android