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Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #10

I'm not sure why I'm so eager to post something sarcastic, possibly including words like "sshfs" and "already" mixed up with nasty stuff like "many years ago". Am I a bad person or what? P.S. And seeing another person asking for "linux support" doesn't help me to fight my sarcasm.

Clearly the root of the problem is that you're old. You also forgot to say "get off my lawn".

Reddit is that way -->

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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I'm not sure why I'm so eager to post something sarcastic, possibly including words like "sshfs" and "already" mixed up with nasty stuff like "many years ago". Am I a bad person or what? P.S. And seeing another person asking for "linux support" doesn't help me to fight my sarcasm.

The technology is rarely the big problem. The big problem is getting the client to stop calling you multiple times per week. "How did you set up that sshfs thing again? I lost the FAQ you sent me." "I was following your FAQ, but I did something wrong and now I can't find my files." "I love that sshfs thing you set up for me; can you set it up for my ten friends? I'll pay you five bucks!" I haven't used this new thing…

Yeah, for us, sshfs, or even rsync is great for our uses. But what about the regular people who wanted online backup and sync across multiple devices?

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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I'm not sure what's with the people in here. Here comes a few guys, and invites you to try on a really smooth service for free (just tried it on my Mac, browsing the pictures with Cover-Flow; really slick) and all I hear is people complaining.

Come on, what more can you ask for?

Really great job guys, I think I'll be using Zumo a lot.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #11
post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

If you want to be able to pull accounts that are doing illegal things, why don't you just say "we can pull your account if you're doing illegal things"? You would even get the ISO pirates who keep their bandwidth usage in line with the herd that way. Is this some kind of common-carrier thing?

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

exactly: and BTW whats the difference between dropbox and zumo?

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #18

Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable. And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to…

I think that JungleDisk would be much harder for an average user to install. I haven't used it, but I did just install Zumodrive. I think that linking up with an s3 account is something that an average end user would rather not have to worry about.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #18

Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable. And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to…

Other than the usability differences, the underlying technology is significantly different. ZumoDrive uses its own file system layer instead of WebDAV(what most drive services use). What this means for the user is that the drive is a lot faster to access, and it supports things like streaming & random access of files.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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post #18

Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable. And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to…

also what the difference between zumodrive and dropbox (other yc co.)????
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