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Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by nvr219 »

B-Con wrote: post #25
rm999 wrote: post #16

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.

When I got my HP TouchPad during the fire sale I got the free 50GB Box account, and this is exactly why I didn't switch. I keep various ISOs and DMGs in dropbox. What is the reason for this file size limit?

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by gk_jam »

nvr219 wrote: post #41
B-Con wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Box.net has a 250MB file size limit for free accounts. Dropbox does not have any limits, AFAIK.

When I got my HP TouchPad during the fire sale I got the free 50GB Box account, and this is exactly why I didn't switch. I keep various ISOs and DMGs in dropbox. What is the reason for this file size limit?

To incent you to upgrade to the paid version?

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by clauretano »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #32
iamdann wrote: post #11

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…

Which Amazon cloud storage product do you have? Is it an Amazon retail product or an Amazon AWS one (e.g. S3, Glacier, etc)?

Amazon Cloud Drive (available for Mac, Windows, Android)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by webwanderings »

buro9 wrote: post #31
webwanderings wrote: post #24

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.

Can you expand on this? I'm assuming Box isn't a write-only file system as they'd have few customers if it was.

As someone else also mentioned it in the thread, my experience was that you could upload folders/files but when it comes to download back, I could not download the folders. I gave up the moment I saw that limitation.

Dropbox doesn't have such restrictions, nor do any other such service I have experienced in the free tier.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by webwanderings »

GotAnyMegadeth wrote: post #6
compilercreator wrote: post #2

Has anyone used Box for personal data? How is the reliability and sync speeds compared to the competition?

I signed up during a 25GB free deal they had a while a go. I use it along side Dropbox and Google Drive and as far as I can tell it's as good as either of those.

Have you tried downloading back your files? Is it as seamless as Dropbox?

The other day I signed up with SpiderOak (over the recent buzz about security and all) and luckily I had to share a folder with a friend in another country. He has the fastest bandwidth available but complained that his connection would drop during the downloads out of SpiderOak. I switched the content to Dropbox and he downloaded trouble free in one go.

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by yread »

iamdann wrote: post #11

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…

it has a limit of 40.000 files (and "works best" for 10.000)

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

#49

Post by yread »

dbarlett wrote: post #38

Two limits of free accounts: no sync agent, and you can't be logged in on two browser sessions simultaneously.

I just downloaded a windows sync agent and started syncing 20+GB from an external disk (symlinked a folder there with junction). Works like a charm

Re: Get 50GB of Box free for life

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Post by nvr219 »

gk_jam wrote: post #42
nvr219 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I got my HP TouchPad during the fire sale I got the free 50GB Box account, and this is exactly why I didn't switch. I keep various ISOs and DMGs in dropbox. What is the reason for this file size limit?

To incent you to upgrade to the paid version?

That can't be it because the business version has a 2GB limit as well. That's too small to store Windows, OS X, Debian, or FreeBSD DVD images.

The "enterprise" version has a 5GB per-file limit which would meet my needs - for now - but surely they're not expecting a single user to purchase an enterprise account.

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