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Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users
- shadowmint 15y agoIf you're willing to let them have access to your contact list. Where have I heard this story before?
- Jagat 15y agoIt's almost like you've to wait till US wakes up before posting something on HN, if you want your post to be visible. [zalew has provided a HN url that shows this news was posted 2 days back and got 0 comments/upvotes]
- PhilRae 15y ago"Looking for free, reliable cloud storage?Dropbox offers 2GB, while SugarSync gives you 5GB. " I would rather pay a very measly $5 a month for 50GB for the reliability that the company I use has a stable business model and is likely to be around in 2 years time.
- davej 15y agoThey're not some kind of overnight start-up, they've been around since long before Dropbox.
- StavrosK 15y agoWhy? Is it too much hassle to take two minutes to install another program if they go under?
- entsofttosspots 15y agoAre you referring to stable business model dropbox whovery recently had a retarded grade A fuck up where anyone can access your data. If you stick to the reassuringly expensive theme you better grab another Stella Artois.
- dchest 15y agoBox has been around since 2005.
- StavrosK 15y agoIs there a good, encrypted cloud storage provider? I'm subscribed to SpiderOak but it's not very good. I'm not sure if that's because the problem is inherently hard, but it has a lot of trouble even syncing, it freezes a lot, etc.
- codesuela 15y agohttp://www.wuala.com/ http://www.wuala.com/
- StavrosK 15y agoOh god, I love you so much right now. Does it work as well as dropbox? I'm installing it now.
- codesuela 15y agoI've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.
- StavrosK 15y agoI just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.
- codesuela 15y agoI've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though. I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with a Phenom 945 and a SSD.
- lubos 15y agoThis deal is useless. You get 50 GB but no desktop client for syncing (that costs extra $$$), so if you want to upload your 50 GB through clunky web-based interface, be my guest.
- ed209 15y agoThis deal is useless now But if you get 50gb for life surely it could come in handy later. I mean Ubuntu recently made moves to turn your Android device into your Desktop PC [1] and who knows how far this sort of thing could go in the next few years. To me it sounds worth trying just on a speculative front. [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
- mhurron 15y agoIt's almost like they're giving you incentives to buy the syncing software.
- ch0wn 15y agoBack when I had a look at box.net, they provided a WebDAV interface to the storage, so it should be easily to integrate with most devices and configurations.
- ch0wn 15y agoThere even is a FUSE adapter for it: http://code.google.com/p/boxfs/ http://code.google.com/p/boxfs/
- znq 15y ago"Now for the bad news: Box doesn't do file-syncing the way Dropbox and SugarSync do. There is a desktop component called Box Sync, but it's available only to Business and Enterprise account holders." #fail
- zalew 15y agohttp://hackerne.ws/item?id=3628324 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3628324 2 days ago
- TheHunter 15y agoYou can mount your account with WebDav for free and bypass the web interface on the desktop. https://www.box.net/dav https://www.box.net/dav
- eduardordm 15y agoI hope the price wars don't affect the reliability of those services. I'm a heavy user of dropbox and the most important files I have (family photos etc) are also stored there.
- jakeonthemove 15y agoMicrosoft is offering 25 GB on SkyDrive - and at least for now, they're not limiting you to the online interface. I use it with Android, and so far never needed more than a gigabyte, but you can always register multiple accounts if you want...