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Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by jmspring »

s3r3nity wrote: post #14
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #2

Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-... I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.

Box is HIPA compliant -- Dropbox is not. Generally Box is well known for its security, whereas Dropbox accomplishes a solution to its problem but I wouldn't trust confidential files on it.

HIPPA

And do you have a link to what usage is HIPPA compliant? A free account probably isn't one of them. Though I could be wrong.

Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by Spooky23 »

sillysaurus2 wrote: post #2

Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-... I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.

Box basically does what 80% of people use sharepoint for. You store docs, build team rooms, integrate with crm, and have some approval workflow.

Dropbox is a great sync client with good sharing features that aspires to be like an iCloud without the apple baggage.

Box can be used with things like hippa data, so it's likely more tightly managed and secure.

Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by jlgaddis »

catinsocks wrote: post #10
sillysaurus2 wrote: post #2

Interesting... It took a few clicks to find out what Box is: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/201207836-What-is-... I wonder, what's the incentive to use Box instead of Dropbox? The space is nice, but trust isn't so easily earned. I'm wondering why to trust Box with personal files.

I think they only offer such a large amount free because they don't allow you to store large files and that is what they want you to pay for. Edit: you can see here maximum file size is 250mb without paying https://www.box.com/pricing/

Yep, I got 50 GB free a while back (I don't remember with/from what) so I planned to use it for backing stuff up. After I discovered that the file size limit was 250 MB I had to reconfigure things in order to split files at ~200 MB in size.

(See also the limits on monthly transfer.)

Now I just use Amazon Glacier and my "Box" is empty.

Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by sheetjs »

jmspring wrote: post #21
s3r3nity wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Box is HIPA compliant -- Dropbox is not. Generally Box is well known for its security, whereas Dropbox accomplishes a solution to its problem but I wouldn't trust confidential files on it.

HIPPA And do you have a link to what usage is HIPPA compliant? A free account probably isn't one of them. Though I could be wrong.

It's actually HIPAA, not HIPPA.

If the paid and free accounts use the same resources (e.g. same hosting configuration, same data centers), the free accounts would also be compliant.

Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by joosters »

chaostheory wrote: post #20

50GB for free is near useless when you have a 100 MB or 250 MB monthly transfer limit. Dropbox's desktop client is also better. I'll stick with Dropbox.

The limit for free users appears to be 10GB/month, you're wrong by a couple of orders of magnitude!

Still, the data transfer limit is annoying, and they don't publicise it (I only knew of it through reading your comment!)

Re: Box for iPhone and iPad 50GB offer

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Post by akumen »

jemeshsu wrote: post #24

Weiyun http://www.weiyun.com/index.html from Tencent is offering 10TB free cloud storage. It has a Mac app that will attach a sync folder on Finder sidebar similar to Dropbox. English version of apps coming soon.

36TB from these guys http://yunpan.360.cn/reg if all you really wanted was space.
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