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I've liked SpiderOak's focus on privacy and security, but find the pricing to be expensive at every tier, and the space available not in tune for my needs (a ju
by newscracker 10y ago
I've liked SpiderOak's focus on privacy and security, but find the pricing to be expensive at every tier, and the space available not in tune for my needs (a jump from 100GB to 250GB, which is kinda ok, and then to a whopping 1TB).
- rarrrrrr 10y agoThanks for your feedback. Just as a data point for comparison, Dropbox charges $100/year for 1000 GB, but they don't do meaningful encryption, and therefore can de-duplicate your files vs. the files of all their other customers, which significantly reduces their storage costs (and allows for some entertaining information leakages!) SpiderOak charges $120/year for 1000 GB. Edit to add: SpiderOak deduplicates files within a single user's account (i.e. copies are free, and if you add another layer to a photoshop file and re-save, it won't take up the full space to archive both versions) but it is not possible [1] for us to deduplicate data across multiple users. [1] https://spideroak.com/articles/why-spideroak-doesnt-deduplicate-data-across-users-and-why-it-should-worry-you-if-we-did https://spideroak.com/articles/why-spideroak-doesnt-deduplic...
- WireWrap 10y agoHow do you "dedupe within a single user's account" without violating "zero knowledge"?
- rarrrrrr 10y agoGreat question. The database work is all done client side. Here's an explanation of the architecture I wrote in 2009: https://spideroak.com/articles/why--how-spideroak-architecture-is-different-than-other-online-storage-services https://spideroak.com/articles/why--how-spideroak-architectu...