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Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Retric » Mon, Oct 27, 2014, 8:43 PM UTC

jorgeleo wrote: post #35

Retric wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This dramaticly increases costs as most cloud storage pricing is based around the assumption that most people upload lot's of duplicate files. Even if it's just you and your grandparents having copy's of the same holiday photos.

I understand... Should I trade my privacy to save pretty pennies in somebody else's wallet?

Ehh, just pointing out why it's not hoping to become a standard feature for entry level cloud storage. You can do it yourself, or pay ~3x as much for an integrated solution.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Veratyr » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 2:19 AM UTC

hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

On your Linux support, you list it as 'coming mid-2014' on the site. I think mid-2014 has passed. Might be worth updating the copy :)

That said, I just bought a copy with lifetime upgrades for use with OneDrive now that Bitcasa has screwed me over.

P.S. a post in the Bitcasa forums with a discount code or something might give you some good advertising.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Chevalier » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 9:19 AM UTC

I'm currently paying $10/month for GDrive, mostly because of the auto-awesome photo suite that automatically incorporates my full-size GDrive photos and lets me share easily on G+. While I love that perk, it just doesn't compare to backing up my entire family's data for $20/year each... and that's before including the free Office suite for each of us!

If anyone at Google is reading this, you can win me back by incorporating photo deduplication. I have well over a terabyte of duplicate photos that I don't dare delete, but could easily be deduplicated down to maybe 100-200GB. I'm sure deduplication already happens server-side, but the consumer is still stuck with endless copies in disorganized folders.

Sadly, this is almost certainly checkmate for Dropbox. I imagine they'll be acquired by Amazon, which has yet to offer a decent consumer-facing cloud brand and needs the economies of scale to compete with Microsoft and Google. Even then, I'm not sure how anyone can compete with the price of OneDrive alone... much less when coupled with the best-of-class Office suite.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by jorgeleo » Tue, Oct 28, 2014, 12:42 PM UTC

Retric wrote: post #41

jorgeleo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand... Should I trade my privacy to save pretty pennies in somebody else's wallet?

Ehh, just pointing out why it's not hoping to become a standard feature for entry level cloud storage. You can do it yourself, or pay ~3x as much for an integrated solution.

I understand that if economics is the driving concern, then yes, and I started my little project too.

But in a post Snowden era, encryption should be a basic requirement