MediaMax
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: security, online, storage | Themes: Business, The Internet
4. MediaMax
MediaMax is a lot like Xdrive, except for the fact that MediaMax provides 25 GB of free online storage with no strings attached or credit card info required. The 25 GB of free storage is by far the most offered for free of any service tested for this review.
Like Xdrive, MediaMax has value added features for media content, so if you’ve got audio files, you get an audio player. With video you’re supposed to get the ability to play the video, though in limited testing, that feature failed repeatedly. In one case, a QuickTime video file (.MOV) was loaded onto the site. Instead of getting a video player, we got an error message: "There are no files to download."
The whole process of actually loading a media file was also somewhat circumspect. Instead of just simply loading a file and then having it be available and ready for use, uploaded files are only available after "processing". MediaMax provides no indication of how long "processing" will take, and in limited testing there was a range of time. In one case, a 2 MB JPEG file took just over 10 minutes to process. With a 26 MB QuickTime file, the processing time was just over 15 minutes.
MediaMax also has a desktop client which is currently labeled as being a beta version. In limited testing on a fully patched Windows XP SP2 machine, the client frequently failed to load. The MediaMax website itself offers little or no insight in terms of support for the desktop client. But hey, 25 GB of free storage...
Hi, i tried more than one of this sites, below my comments:
Mozy
http://www.mozy.com
Voto: 8/10
If you delete a file you cancel the back up as well. The back up is quite slow.
If you change the PC it can be a trouble.
Box.net
http://www.box.net
Voto: 6/10
The back up is not automatic and you don?t konw how to cancel your subscription.
Memopal
http://www.memopal.com
Voto: 9/10
Just in beta version but it seems well done.
250GB of space, automatic back up, your own ftp, access from everywhere.
Unfortunately It doesn?t have an affiliate program, but just per invitation for now.
I just tried memopal and it was good
Jungle Disk: Great, just what EVERYONE needs.
FREE to try first month.
First it guides you to set up an account with Amazon.
To continue, a lousy $20 one-off for lifetime, all upgrades, all your machines now and anywhere. It uses Amazon's spare space. The front-end is so easy: set up a schedule of what and when e.g my changed /datafiles at /midnight daily. Even keeps changed files.
Await the monthly bill from Amazon, big bikkies? Heck no -- 15 cents per GIGabyte per month.
Secure? Sure is... your OWN secret strong encryption key, unknown to Amazon or Jungle disk.
Data is as available as a network icon on your desktop, to view, download, rename, delete etc...
www.jungledisk.com
He has a deluxe option for an extra $1 a month to restrict uploading data to changed files. Go mad, spend up big.
Check out an interview where security guru finds it A1;
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-123.htm
(skip the first half of chat)
P.S yes I use it.(No commercial relationship)