probably a reaction to MEGA
It seems to be a promotion with Dell. Dell often has little perks like this for employees.
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#22probably a reaction to MEGA
Doubtful. Box has been running 50 GB promotions for quite a while.
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#23"For life". More like for 18 months until the company goes bust, taking all your data with them.
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#24I 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.
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#25My 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.
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#26Only seems worthwhile using and relying on online storage, if you use two or three completely separate services, all sync'ed. So if one goes down or disappears without notice, you have backups, and can add another completely independent service.
Though with bandwidth limits and limited online storage capacity (I've over 200GB of business files, plus 450,000 photos, over 1TB), still appears more cost effective and efficient to backup to a portable hard drive every few months anything new and store at a secondary secure location, with online storage only being used for short periods until that backup is made and a local drive copy of that backup used on a daily basis.
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#27I'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 does have size upload limits of 250MB.
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#28Signed up, the desktop client seems a lot clunkier than Dropbox (I use Windows 7 for those wondering) I don't really use any online backup service all that much -- all my docs are in Google Docs which I guess is Google Drive now and I'm a single dude so I don't have hoards of kids videos & photos. After seeing this and signing up I was planning on installing this on my mom's computer (currently she's using Dropbox --…
Pity that blue manilla folder is the same folder as every other folder on mac
You can't see the little dropbox icon in the folder? ;) I wish it were a different color as well; I wind up differentiating by the red 𐄂 and green ✓.
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#29Why do I have to provide my phone number to sign up?
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#30Signed up, the desktop client seems a lot clunkier than Dropbox (I use Windows 7 for those wondering) I don't really use any online backup service all that much -- all my docs are in Google Docs which I guess is Google Drive now and I'm a single dude so I don't have hoards of kids videos & photos. After seeing this and signing up I was planning on installing this on my mom's computer (currently she's using Dropbox --…
Pity that blue manilla folder is the same folder as every other folder on mac
Hah, I'd never considered that.
Company idea: Dropbox but with a default folder that is green rather than blue or manilla.