This service looks interesting; up to 25 GB free storage; I believe it has not been mentioned on DC so far:
http://humyo.com/
It won the comparison test of the german CHIP magazine:
http://www.chip.de/artikel/Vergleichstest-Online-Festplatten_32846847.html
Disadvantages are: no Linux client, data transfer encryption is only available in the paid version.-Lutz_ (October 13, 2008, 11:25 AM)
The winner in the Test (http://www.chip.de/artikel/Vergleichstest-Online-Festplatten-6_32847232.html) was humyo.com.
ADrive was only third.-Crush (November 03, 2008, 12:07 PM)
Features
* 25GB storage for media files
* 5GB storage for non media files
* Access via web browser or mobile phone
not sure how they define or differentiate between media/non-media files?-tomos (October 14, 2008, 04:04 PM)
| 10 Gigabytes 5GB for Photos/Music/Videos & 5GB for other files |
Interesting that I came across this just now. I just came from the Free Download A Day website and was thinking about downloading A Drive. Ever since my computer crashed and wreaked such havoc in my life, I live in fear of it happening again. I keep backups on an external WD drive and some of the most important files I also keep on a flash drive but I'm still not comfortable. I mean, what would I do if my house burned down or someone stole my precious Gremlin (yes, my 'puter has a name)??? And A Drive offers, not 2, not 5, not even 25 but 50 GB of free storage.-sazzen (November 06, 2008, 08:57 AM)
ADrive has a very slow upload acording to the test Crush links to above
160 mins (almost 3 hrs) for 300mb
75 mins to download same
and
a generally slow and/or problematic connection - still got third place though!
Just so's you know-tomos (November 06, 2008, 09:19 AM)
I'm now calculating essential MBs.-sazzen (November 08, 2008, 10:05 AM)
Currently trying spideroak as the feature set in the marketing speak is appealing - they alas dont offer a competitive enough deal on larger plan - I dont mind paying 10/month but 100Gb is just too little to back up all my photos and music files as well as my documents. So I need two.-iphigenie (November 08, 2008, 11:36 AM)
- things that are purely a "in case my house burns down or is burglared" things - things that are already backed up on an external drive at home but whose loss would be irretrievable-iphigenie (November 08, 2008, 11:36 AM)
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Http://www.mediafire.com ...-Stephen66515 (February 15, 2010, 04:41 PM)
www.mediafire.com ... they been around forever and they are ultra reliable, their free storage is more than sufficient for most people and they offer a paid service (cant remember the price) for those who want to do huge file uploads.so, they have unlimited upload/download & unlimited storage for the free service - what's the catch, how do they do that ??? :tellme:-Stephen66515 (February 15, 2010, 04:41 PM)
Mediafire free accounts are restricted to uploads of 200 MB per file and files are deleted if they are not accessed every 30 days
Mediafire free accounts are restricted to uploads of 200 MB per file and files are deleted if they are not accessed every 30 days
... the mother of all differences. :) I certainly wouldn't use their free service for backup purposes.-nosh (February 16, 2010, 05:29 AM)
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The thing I'm not sure about is how long will these new providers be around? I use Live Mesh, Skydrive and Dropbox and I know that they are big enough names that my data will be around.-MrCrispy (February 15, 2010, 04:30 PM)