Take Your Storage Online : Introduction
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: security, online, storage | Themes: Business, The Internet
1. Introduction
It’s important to backup your data. We’ve all had that basic lesson drilled into us for years. It’s also important to make sure that your backed up data is located somewhere other than where your primary data is - that way one disaster won’t take out both sets. With cheap storage and pervasive broadband, the promise of offsite storage is one that is easily fulfilled. There are many online services that consumers can now use for online storage. Perhaps, too many.
The basic promise of online storage is the security and peace of mind of having an offsite copy of your data. Offsite online storage can also make your data more accessible if you want to share it. But how do you choose which service to go with? It all depends on what you want out of your online storage service. In this review, we’ll take a look at six popular online storage services: Xdrive, MediaMax, IDrive-E, Omnidrive, Box.net, Carbonite and Mozy. Each of these services offers a free trial that does not require a credit card for signup - so after you read this article, you can go and try them out for yourself. We’ll evaluate what works and point out the stuff that doesn’t work as it should. In our features chart, we’ll lay bare the costs and capabilities of the evaluated services. Finally, at the end, we’ll identify the winners and losers.
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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)