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Ask HN: ADrive offers 50GB of free storage. Why had I never heard of it?
http://www.adrive.com/
Just wondering if anybody had heard anything about this company or used the product. Supposedly they offer 50GB free and operate sort of like DropBox. Today is the first I'd heard of it so I thought I'd ask HN if you had any experience with it.
- maze 16y agohttp://www.adrive.com http://www.adrive.com
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- jeza 16y agoThough it seems they will give you 50GB free, you have to pay for anything but the basics (such as if you want to access it as a drive on your computer). Otherwise you only get a 14 day trial for these 'advanced' features. Where as DropBox is free.
- shadowpwner 16y agoWhy? Well, first of all, the UI is confusing and complicated (a majority will call it ugly) compared to Dropbox.
- phlux 16y agoJust signed up to check it out -- but yes, it looks a little shady
- just_testing 16y agoWell, the lack of SSL doesn't help at all. I prefer to pay a bit more to SpiderOak and have encryption. Of course, I could make a script to compress all my files with passwords, but the selling point of those services is being easy.
- wladimir 16y agoSSL is just the wire protocol, it does not protect your data when it is stored. So it's advisable to do your own encryption anyway, before sending it to the backup server.
- bpd1069 16y agoGave it a whirl and tried to upload a smallish collection of reference ebooks. The java app failed after the first file (of 50+). Cancelled my account 15 seconds later... Reason: "It doesn't Work!"