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Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

3 points by gls2ro ↗ HN
I'm interested about online storage (maybe cloud) solutions were you keep your pictures, videos, ebooks or any other documents.

One example would be Dropbox for sure. But I would like to see more options.

Thank you

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mappu
Two lowendboxes (each with 20G storage for 15USD/year). A shell script remotely mounts encfs and runs rdiff-backup.
zapdrive
ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.
zapdrive
Disclaimer: I work for ZapDrive, and we just launched yesterday!
gls2ro
There is an error on Signup on Safari (OS X 10.7): - first time entered a password less then 8 chars - pressed signup - errors appeared - now the signup button has a layout like being pressed and it is disabled
zapdrive
Could not reproduce the bug on Safari OS X 10.6.8, the button becomes enabled as soon as the error message is displayed. Will test on OS X 10.7.
countessa
haven't had a good look through your site yet, I've been looking at backblaze, but zapdrive lookis interesting....is the drive connected over SSL or do you have a different encryption thing going on?
zapdrive
We use SSL. As you might have noticed, we don't have any software that needs to be installed to use our service. We use the operating systems inbuilt 'Drive Mapping' feature, and all the communication is done over SSL.

Also, we are different from BackBlaze in the sense, ZapDrive appears as a different drive on your computer, so you don't need to save the same data on your hard drive. The downside is, you have to be connected to the Internet to access your files in ZapDrive.

gls2ro
I'm interested in two things: 1. Is the connection to Zap Drive encrypted? 2. How are the Public Folders working? (cannot find any details more in the docs)
zapdrive
Yes, the connection is encrypted through SSL. You can make any folder public, by right clicking on it and selecting "Get Public Link". You will get a link that you can share with anyone.
duiker101
My own VPS for projects and some docs, for random things dropbox. But i do not have any photos music videos & c.
jamesjguthrie
Dropbox looks like the best option to me. I've got it on my laptop, desktop, Android phone and BlackBerry PlayBook.
gls2ro
Finally I chosen Box because it supports most of the Dropbox features at a lower costs, around 15USD per month for 1TB
mitchellwfox
Google Drive - I hate to be too "mainstream", but we've been using Google Drive to share docs between our small team and it works great. Collaboration on Google Docs is native and simple, plus we're able to keep our Office docs alongside without trouble.