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Online Storage 2.0: Six Sites Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-needs-hard-drives dept.

mikemuch writes "Services like box.net, openomy, and eSnips are more than just places to access your files from the web. Some include media organization tools, Windows shell integration, drag-and-drop uploading, tagging, and social content sharing. ExtremeTech has a review up of six online storage services with Web 2.0 twists."

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  1. Links people links... by rovingeyes · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now isn't this link much better?. Why is it so difficult to submit these links instead? Sigh...

    1. Re:Links people links... by LMacG · · Score: 4, Informative

      Since it's almost a certainty that the author of the piece submitted the article --cf. "mikemuch writes", "Six Free Online Storage Services - By Michael W. Muchmore" -- one might imagine the point was to gain page hits and ad impressions.

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  2. Or you could get a hosting account... by Paulrothrock · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've got 224 GB of storage space and 2.6 TB of monthly bandwidth, along with an image gallery, blog, SSH and FTP access, and email with spam filtering for $9.99/month + $10/year for the domain name.

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  3. Re:ssh rsync? by VE3MTM · · Score: 4, Informative

    How about http://www.rsync.net/?

    I have no affiliation with them, and I've never used their service, but it sounds like what you asked for.

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  4. Re:I surprised they didn't include XDrive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a developer at Xdrive, we develop the freaking service on MacBook Pro's, but we can't get an OS X client into the feature list. With Apple poised to make major gains against Microsoft re: Vista, I'm floored that we don't consider an OS X client a strategic feature.

    Please, please, bitch and moan about it. Louder. Your voices count for more than mine.

    Grrr... I was going to provide a link to the community forums website (from http://www.xdrive.com/support), but that's broken at the moment. Give it a day or so and then please try again. Lots of us want an OS X client. It will only happen if Xdrive/AOL management can be convinced of the need.

    (AC because attaching my name to this might be a CLM)