Dominik Juszczyk Technical blog

16Mar/080

Online storage – how do you use it?

I have used online storage services for some time already. Mostly two of them:

  • box.net - to have access to files for longer period of time (used with iGoogle gadget)
  • yousendit - to send files once and just forget about them

Both services in free version have limitations on storage size and I used them only to copy files to the servers where FTP protocol was blocked on firewall. Recently, I have found new service called ADrive. It gives 50GB(!) online storage. It is size that one can use :) I started thinking about possibilities and I couldn't find anything that would be 100% satisfying me:

  • for backup (for example photos?) - it is too small (yes - I have more than 50GB of photos, and this is good topic for another post - how one manages that amount of photos in the best way ;) )
  • file sharing - box.net and yousendit is more than enough for me

Other thing is accessibility of files stored in online "drive". At my home I have installed ADSL (4MBit/s download, 512kbit/s upload). From its definition it is asynchronous network connection with different speeds of download and upload (thank you Robert for pointing this). Can you imagine how long would take uploading 50GB of files with max 512kbit/s (in optimistic scenario)?
To summarize it is great that someone gives us something like ADrive for free, but for now I cannot find any way to use it in a smart way. Maybe you have an idea?