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FYI their FAQ says the sync is "old" and the new tool which will be updated is drop to upload only.

Also, their file interface is far from modern. You can't drag and drop, right click to share, anything expected from all of their competitors.

It seems many people here commenting haven't tried it. It has no sync! The online interface is awful!

This is currently such a bad product that its not likely to be a threat to any existing solution.

Try signing up and seeing it for yourself. You will neither be able to sync or upload a lot of content, nor use it once uploaded given the poor online interface.

They are not selling file storage, they are selling enterprise content management.

For professional orchestras, a conductor is not a metronome, but an artistic director.

So yes, they can add quite a lot.

For those willing to watch 30 mins, great summary of Box's strategy: http://retailroadshow.com/sys/launch.asp?qv=016800407320261&...

Some of my favorites: http://imgur.com/a/d3brY

FYI one source for free HQ downloads: https://images.nga.gov/en/search/do_quick_search.html?q=mone...

FYI this has been a big challenge even for music that has no copyright on it. Musopen.org has collected a great deal of music, and even for recordings we bought the rights to, they automatically challenge it!

It works well to scare people from leveraging even public domain resources.

Suggestion, after i drop something then ask me who to email it to and auto generate a link. save me a step if i want to just copy/paste a link.

Compared to $45 a month for unlimited storage.

Terrible name...

Also it looks like Box and Google Drive are significantly cheaper.

Great purchase, could add a lot of value to their consumer offering.

I'm surprised they removed 2tb and everything between 1 and 10tb?

Was this to keep pricing cleaner?

Another idea. Box goes public, DropBox goes public some months later. Both do well and grow large. Box wins business in the enterprise, DropBox wins in consumer. Everyone wins and are happy ever after.

Until 7 years later when a startup kills both.

I had many issues with Backblaze over several years.

I found 1-2 times a year, when initiating a backup, the entire archive I had disappeared, as in, my computer would start to send all of my files all over again. This was very disconcerting.

I never liked seeing all files on an network drive disappear just because it was unplugged.

The final straw was when I attempted to restore a large archive, and saw the download speed was so slow, it would not finish before this restore was removed on Backblaze's servers.

Crashplan, has had zero issues over 2-3 years now. I've restored large files without issue, they store versions which I don't even need/want, and the desktop software works very well. Highly recommended.

FYI I left Backblaze for Crashplan for the same reasons.

I believe Blackblaze also removes the backup after some number of hours, so if you don't download the backup by then, you're in big trouble.

Crashplan also allows external and network drives to be backed up.

and cheaper

You should have made people Tweet or share a link to get access first!

This is just a proof-of-concept, correct?

Well designed, but, don't they know USB sticks are on their way out?

The annual price seems prohibitively expensive, especially compared to services like Instacart.

They don't seem to be offering a very good argument for why the service is worth the cost IMO.

Has anyone compared the reliability of this to Bittorrent's solution? I tried Aero a while ago and found it to be very buggy then. Are there any major differences between the two? http://www.bittorrent.com/sync

This is pretty amazing. If only Facebook were this instead.

The image on the homepage makes me think this family is running for their lives from a horde of zombies, but seem fairly happy about it. Gotta love stock photography.

Business focused service. This reduces spam + increases quality of new sign ups.

Note to Box, please make your file formats plain html or something exportable.

I think it will take a leap of faith for a company to start creating all their docs on Box, vs Google Docs which has been around longer. I would feel better if I saw them stored in such a way that I wasn't afraid I was stuck with you forever.

Maybe you can create the first modern, open docs file format for the web. Maybe that's just html.

IE not .gdoc (.bdoc)

That is all to say, I'm not sure you can win this war on features or usability (vs Apple and Google) but you might be able to win with security + openness.

This works both ways, opt out as much as you can, hold up the process and force the TSA to come up with something better.

How on earth can anyone say something like that when people have died and actual news is occurring? Shame on you.

I love how that as smart and scientific as we are as a civilization, we're still just primates deep down.

"We found 1 billion year old water! ... I want to drink it so bad."

Don't say "using email is bad" then in the next paragraph "as easy as email"