Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Online File Storage

So with all those online storage solutions out there, which one should you chose? Well, after trying out a few, namely Xdrive, box.net, drivehq.com, stremload.com, and a few others, here are our reviews:

Top Picks

drivehq.com: probably your best bet for backing up your business data. Nice solid backup utility that ties in nicely with Microsoft Windows.

Streamload.com: mainly geared towards media (music, videos, etc) and nice email attachment features, streamload.com is a great service. They had the largest amount of allowed backup space (25gb free, or if you pay $5/month +, unlimited). Their automated backup features are non-existent though.

box.net: had the cleanest web interface, and nice reasonable prices. No automated backup software yet, but tech support told me it was coming next week.

Average

Xdrive.com: nice clean interface for the web site uploads. However, their automated backup software leaves something to be desired. Uploads failed, and after reviewing their forums it appears to be a common issue. Also it annoyed me that to cancel my account there is no link on the my account section, you actually have to call them. Oh wait now we know why, when you call in you find out they are owned by AOL ;)

1 Comments:

At 9:40 PM , Anonymous Flying222 said...

Agreed, while not famous, DriveHQ's WWWBackup is the best in this category. I signed up from Roxio Easy Media Creator 8.0, where DriveHQ has a co-branded banner, and they offer a special discount price of $99.99 for 10GB. I backed up more than 2000 photos without any glitches. Tried XDrive before, crashes too often. tried StreamLoad as well, offering 25GB storage space. But the catch is they have such poor client software that it is absolutely impossible to upload 25GB! also be aware you only get 100MB download each month. I am not giving my data to them. Never tried Box.net, the interface is for amateurs with little useful feature, not for a professional type of people like myself.

 

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