So, time for a Hacker News invite code then? :)
Yes please, I didn't get in on the TC invite soon enough :(
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)
#42So, time for a Hacker News invite code then? :)
Yes please, I didn't get in on the TC invite soon enough :(
There's a code for all news.yc readers (good for 200)
newsyc or http://www.zumodrive.com/invite/newsyc
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#43Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#44One problem: Java. The installer didn't find Java on one of my Windows machines, because I have the latest JDK installed in an unusual directory (and might not have run the official Sun installer, either). Maybe inspect JAVA_HOME before downloading and installing a whole new JRE, or better yet, let me specify where to find it? Two: If you guys want to install MacFUSE, at least warn me. :) Three: Java UI. I know, I kn…
Thanks, I've filed a bug for the java check. There isn't much we can do about the Java UI though :)
You could do what dropbox did and make a real native UI for each platform. Honestly, I gave up on Zumodrive in part because I couldn't get your menu icon to not look selected. It always was highlighted, even before I clicked on it the first time. Also, the menu behaved in a weird, nonstandard way.
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 :)
So put in some kind of limits. I am EXTREMELY wary of using anything that doesn't define limits. As I can have the rug pulled out from under me.
Yeah - I think there is going to be a natural wariness as people get used to using cloud services. This kind of clause is only going to make people nervous.
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#46Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#47Where do Zumodrive and Dropbox have their storage cloud? S3 or own boxes in colo?
Dropbox uses S3.
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#48No support for Linux? :(
Dropbox is Linux friendly ;)
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#49Can 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.
I'm a Jungle Drive user, and while I don't pretend to be an "average" user, it was very easy to install. I'm not sure if setting up an Amazon S3 account and then putting the key into Jungle Drive would be too technical for the average user, maybe it would. Overall I've been very happy with Jungle Drive so far, and the $20 one time charge is pretty nice, particularly since I can use that on as many machines as I want with one Amazon account.
How does that compare with ZumoDrive?
--Disclosure - not currently a user of ZumoDrive
Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)
#50Wow it's kind of expensive!