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I would never trust Box. A long time ago (probably when they were starting up) the service made me realize that you can upload whatever you want for free but when it comes to download, you'll be SOL.
I'm assuming Box isn't a write-only file system as they'd have few customers if it was.
I've already got a 50GB Box account through a free promo a while ago...but the account has file size limitations unless you pay for an upgrade. I'd assume this deal has the same restrictions. I forget the upload size limit, but it was enough to keep me from actually using them for my personal needs. I pay $25/year for 25GB of Amazon cloud storage, which includes unlimited music storage and no upload limits. I'm happy…
Account type: Personal Storage (used/total): 0B / 50.0GB 0% used Bandwidth used: 0B of 10.0GB Max file size: 250 MB — Upload files up to 5GB
My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
Box.net has a 250MB file size limit for free accounts. Dropbox does not have any limits, AFAIK.
My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy. My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
This has been the case for me for the last couple of years. I used to see promotions like this constantly (even going back to when 8 free GB was on offer instead of 50), and as a result I have a small collection of different file storage services that add up to an okay amount of storage, mostly due to the couple of 50 GB promotions. The one thing to be careful about with Box is the limitations they put on access; The…
Thats a lot of GB. Several times more than my free Dropbox + Google Drive. So where is the catch ? There has to be one .
Max file size is 250 megabyte.
ref: http://bensbargains.net/deal/25gb-cloud-storage-account-free...
Thats a lot of GB. Several times more than my free Dropbox + Google Drive. So where is the catch ? There has to be one .
The user interface is not as intuitive as Dropbox's. Box, at least on the Mac, doesn't integrate es nicely as Dropbox. The web interface is very unintuitive and overstuffed with features as well. At least that's my first impression of Box, when compared to Dropbox.
It turned out that their client was enumerating folders and files looking for changed data rather than hooking into the OS X file system notifications. We really liked it for the corporate account since it's possible to selectively grant outside parties access to files/folders.
Bad advertising, in my opinion; this may or may not mean "free for the life of the service," which is the best possible case, since they have absolutely no way to guarantee this thing is available for the life of a user.