Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month

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Post by tluthra » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:09 PM UTC

Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month
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Post by msoad » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:22 PM UTC

Cloud storage is not about size for me. It's about the experience. I'm pretty happy paying $2 a month to Google and getting tons of different services for my cloud

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:23 PM UTC

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Post by samstave » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:25 PM UTC

Sounds like Plex? And plex has apps for my smart TV as well...

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Post by WalterSear » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:34 PM UTC

Having been sorely disappointed by crashplan's rate-limited servers and dodgy software, I'm wary of anything 'unlimited'.

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Post by Paul12345534 » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:39 PM UTC

WalterSear wrote: post #5

Having been sorely disappointed by crashplan's rate-limited servers and dodgy software, I'm wary of anything 'unlimited'.

I've had the opposite experience with Crashplan. Their software does take a lot of RAM though. I'm happily storing 3TB on their servers for $5 a month (yearly). I don't think that's such a bad deal.

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Post by osipovas » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:45 PM UTC

samstave wrote: post #4

Sounds like Plex? And plex has apps for my smart TV as well...

With respect to Plex, I think Streem could act as a 'Cloud Sync' option.

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Post by mrmondo » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:48 PM UTC

How can it de-dupe properly if it is truly encrypted? Also, it's not unlimited storage for $20/month, it's only 200GB for $20/month.

Not nearly cheap enough for use with movies / music IMO

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Post by ecesena » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:51 PM UTC

I have some concerns on the 2 sentences (from their website):

- "We've developed proprietary de-duplication and compression technology to be able to give you unlimited storage"

- "Your files are encrypted with AES-256 bit encryption"

I'd prefer to know that my data is not encrypted, rather than reading marketing sentences that have none or obscure meaning when read together.

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Post by trevorstarick » Wed, Apr 16, 2014, 11:52 PM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #8

How can it de-dupe properly if it is truly encrypted? Also, it's not unlimited storage for $20/month, it's only 200GB for $20/month. Not nearly cheap enough for use with movies / music IMO

It looked like they were just doing a comparison to other services like Dropbox which give you 200GB a month for $20. They have a section stating it is truly unlimited due to compression algorithms and stuff similar to what Mega.co.nz tried to do.