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Box offers 50GB of free cloud storage to Android users

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27 pointsglennwiz26 comments

This deal is useless. You get 50 GB but no desktop client for syncing (that costs extra $$$), so if you want to upload your 50 GB through clunky web-based interface, be my guest.

This deal is useless now

But if you get 50gb for life surely it could come in handy later. I mean Ubuntu recently made moves to turn your Android device into your Desktop PC [1] and who knows how far this sort of thing could go in the next few years. To me it sounds worth trying just on a speculative front.

[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

It's almost like they're giving you incentives to buy the syncing software.

Back when I had a look at box.net, they provided a WebDAV interface to the storage, so it should be easily to integrate with most devices and configurations.

There even is a FUSE adapter for it: http://code.google.com/p/boxfs/

"Looking for free, reliable cloud storage?Dropbox offers 2GB, while SugarSync gives you 5GB. "

I would rather pay a very measly $5 a month for 50GB for the reliability that the company I use has a stable business model and is likely to be around in 2 years time.

They're not some kind of overnight start-up, they've been around since long before Dropbox.

Why? Is it too much hassle to take two minutes to install another program if they go under?

Are you referring to stable business model dropbox whovery recently had a retarded grade A fuck up where anyone can access your data. If you stick to the reassuringly expensive theme you better grab another Stella Artois.

Box has been around since 2005.

"Now for the bad news: Box doesn't do file-syncing the way Dropbox and SugarSync do. There is a desktop component called Box Sync, but it's available only to Business and Enterprise account holders." #fail

You can mount your account with WebDav for free and bypass the web interface on the desktop. https://www.box.net/dav

Is there a good, encrypted cloud storage provider? I'm subscribed to SpiderOak but it's not very good. I'm not sure if that's because the problem is inherently hard, but it has a lot of trouble even syncing, it freezes a lot, etc.

http://www.wuala.com/

Oh god, I love you so much right now. Does it work as well as dropbox? I'm installing it now.

I've used it on both Windows and Linux and sync works pretty much flawless.

I just looked at the forums and it doesn't use inotify, it just polls every minutes :/ That's pretty sucky, I have code and repos I need to sync and they have thousands of files. Polling that every minute would be hell.

I've solved that problem by stashing everything older away in rar archives. Sorry you've ran into problems though. I have 400MB/50k files in my sync folders I haven't had any problems yet. Now that you've mentioned it I noticed that that Wuala spikes to 10% CPU load every few seconds. But I don't notice any performance impact (does not impact avg. load either). This is with all files in an encrypted home folder with a Phenom 945 and a SSD.

I'll give it another shot, I've also set old backups to happen daily rather than continuously, which helps. We shouldn't have to make these workarounds, though.

It irks me that dropbox is the only one that gets this right :-\

The problem is hard. For linux, for example, there's just wuala and spideroak.

http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox

Wuala seems much better than SpiderOak, but I have a suspicion that they encrypt each file separately. I can live with that, though, if it makes the client better, and Wuala is almost perfect, apart from the fact that it doesn't use inotify :/

I'll probably still switch to it, just not use it for everything.

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3628324 2 days ago

Microsoft is offering 25 GB on SkyDrive - and at least for now, they're not limiting you to the online interface. I use it with Android, and so far never needed more than a gigabyte, but you can always register multiple accounts if you want...

If you're willing to let them have access to your contact list.

Where have I heard this story before?

It's almost like you've to wait till US wakes up before posting something on HN, if you want your post to be visible.

[zalew has provided a HN url that shows this news was posted 2 days back and got 0 comments/upvotes]

I hope the price wars don't affect the reliability of those services. I'm a heavy user of dropbox and the most important files I have (family photos etc) are also stored there.

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