Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

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Post by gls2ro » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 9:36 AM UTC

I'm interested about online storage (maybe cloud) solutions were you keep your pictures, videos, ebooks or any other documents.

One example would be Dropbox for sure. But I would like to see more options.

Thank you

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#2

Post by collegeappz » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 9:40 AM UTC

box for iphone and Asus web storage also for iphone

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#3

Post by gls2ro » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 9:50 AM UTC

collegeappz wrote: post #2

box for iphone and Asus web storage also for iphone

What type of account are you using on Box? I'm seeing that 50GB personal is 17E and ~1TB for 1 user professional is 13 E.

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#4

Post by mappu » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 10:01 AM UTC

Two lowendboxes (each with 20G storage for 15USD/year). A shell script remotely mounts encfs and runs rdiff-backup.

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#5

Post by zapdrive » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 10:27 AM UTC

ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.

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Post by zapdrive » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

zapdrive wrote: post #5

ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.

Disclaimer: I work for ZapDrive, and we just launched yesterday!

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#7

Post by duiker101 » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

My own VPS for projects and some docs, for random things dropbox. But i do not have any photos music videos & c.

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

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Post by countessa » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 11:10 AM UTC

zapdrive wrote: post #5

ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.

haven't had a good look through your site yet, I've been looking at backblaze, but zapdrive lookis interesting....is the drive connected over SSL or do you have a different encryption thing going on?

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

#9

Post by insertnickname » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 11:13 AM UTC

I've got a few files stored on https://tarbackup.com/. It's free (for now). It doesn't have a lot of features, but I like the simplicity.

Re: Ask HN: What online storage are you using for your own private files?

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Post by gls2ro » Thu, Oct 11, 2012, 11:15 AM UTC

zapdrive wrote: post #5

ZapDrive.com! You get 100 GB for just $19.99/year. Upgrade upto 10 TB at the same rate. (200 GB for 39.99/year and so on...). And, unlike Dropbox, you don't have to save everything on your computer, cuz ZapDrive behaves like a network drive.

I'm interested in two things: 1. Is the connection to Zap Drive encrypted? 2. How are the Public Folders working? (cannot find any details more in the docs)