Very interesting. I didn't even realize this. Thanks for sharing Jason.
With that Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh thread some hours ago, I'm strongly considering doing the Mini + Dropbox combo for my second machine.
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#23Dropbox is great when you need realtime access to your files. I have a free account and use it for syncning some music and important files between home and work. If you're only using it for backup purposes, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives. I've been using Mozy (home vesion) for a year and it has unlimited space for $5/month. I don't get realtime access, but for backup it's great. As a bonus, their sync progra…
[Mozy's] sync program lets you specify your own encryption key so they can't even view your file data
... assuming you trust their security, that is. Given that they proudly advertise using blowfish -- an algorithm which even the inventor has expressed surprise that anyone is still using -- and they don't make their client source code available for audit, it's hard to place much trust there.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand why you felt the need to take a shot at this. What if one of the dropbox guys dropped in and told us how they were able to pull off the backend work? Great discussions here on HN can stem from any kind of article, so I would hesitate to discourage discussion.
I say it because I want there to be some users who really think about what's relevant and what's not. Of course, I'm a single user: my opinion is just an opinion here. It's just how I felt. There was a conversation on IRC a few days ago where people were complaining that "favored" HN companies would get stories up to the top page when the stories were fairly bland. I saw this and thought of that. I'm a proud Dropbox…
I did not know there was an IRC channel for HN. Is it a very active channel & do you happen to have a link?
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#25I'm not certain if this is "news" per se. It's interesting, and I'm glad that Dropbox is staying kickass, but there's not much discussion to be held, nor is this a particularly newsworthy subject.
I wouldn't even mind it if it were a blog post or something. This just takes me to a log in page. Then I log in, and it takes me to an order page.
Exactly. A login page that doesn't tell me anything - since I'm not a Dropbox customer, what does the link do to help convince me to sign up?
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#26I might have something to say if the page would ever load.
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#27For those not wanting to create an account or sign in to find out, it's $20/mo or $200/yr.
more accurately $19/mo or $199/yr
hehe
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#28At first glance, it seems a touch expensive, as you can get Github and GMail accounts that offer far more storage for less expense. But on the other hand, Dropbox don't have the advantage of being able to assume that most of their customers won't use the full 100GB, as is the case with emails or source control. Also, looking at Amazon's S3 pricing, it isn't much cheaper to use something like Jungledisk with S3 direct…
Dropbox also retains revisions and deleted files, which on free accounts at least does not count against your quota. If this is true for paid accounts, their users can end up using more than what they think they are paying for.
i think i read on the forums that neither free not paid users have deleted files counted to their quota :D
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#29Dropbox is great when you need realtime access to your files. I have a free account and use it for syncning some music and important files between home and work. If you're only using it for backup purposes, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives. I've been using Mozy (home vesion) for a year and it has unlimited space for $5/month. I don't get realtime access, but for backup it's great. As a bonus, their sync progra…
[Mozy's] sync program lets you specify your own encryption key so they can't even view your file data ... assuming you trust their security, that is. Given that they proudly advertise using blowfish -- an algorithm which even the inventor has expressed surprise that anyone is still using -- and they don't make their client source code available for audit, it's hard to place much trust there.
thats a good point.
at some time you're gonna have to trust any cloud provider, irrespective of the encryption(/lack) or the implementation - you send ur data off over your dsl and it's up for grabs. simple as that!
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#30What's the technical advantage of dropbox over, say, jungledisk?
Differentiators:
- Jungledisk uses S3 which I, in principle like.
- Jungledisk adjusts what they charge me with what I use versus charging me a flat rate when I want > 2GB frame
Non-differentiation
- Both use a snazzy multi-OS drag-and-drop widget - Storage is storage
It seems like strapping me into a one-size fits all "pro" account is a rather dated modality of charging. Anyone clear on that?
I'm evaluating this critically because I need to have a 'follows me' net-disk solution, but have not, as yet, found one that just bowled me over. This link was timely.