Comments on: Windows Live Skydrive & 3 Alternative Online Storage Services

By: Misha

Misha — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:03:08 +0000

Well, AAU, who needs and wants IE on a Mac anyway? Firefox is out there, somewhere..

By: milan

milan — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:21:50 +0000

Much better if there was an Operating System that is online. Imagine this service with the mobile client, would have windows on your mobile as a remote access.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:56:34 +0000

It's worth mentioning that SkyDrive Explorer offers easy Explorer-integrated access to Skydrive accounts.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:04:11 +0000

I totally agree. SkyDrive is useless to me because of this. USELESS. Wish ADrive had a way to be mapped as a drive on my PC.

By: Pax

Pax — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:22:18 +0000

I followed your Azure link. Seems that right now it’s free but they’ll start billing soon:

* Compute = $0.12 / hour
* Storage = $0.15 / GB stored / month
* Storage Transactions = $0.01 / 10K
* Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/

It’s more a platform for web applications aimed at enterprise users and the web 2.0 crowd.

By: Encryption software

Encryption software — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:04:00 +0000

First off, I had no idea about A-Drive, but it sounds fantastic and I will definitely be checking it out.

My main reason for commenting is to question why these sites, like MS and even Google, give you all this space and then limit you to such puny file sizes. You touched on it in the article but I would have loved to see it elaborated on. I mean, how dare they tout this service as being for video storage and then give us only 50mb per file? The least they could do is keep that limit to themselves, while accepting our larger files and cutting them up into smaller segments behind the scenes. This kind of small file size limitation is ideal for photos, but for video storage? Unless they expect us to crush every video we have into FLVs, it just seems impractical. Thanks for the post, I enjoyed it.

By: Tim Acheson

Tim Acheson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:39:41 +0000

I reccomend SkYDrive. It’s free, all you need is a Hotmail or Windows Live account and that’s free too.

I even use it to host and “stream” video on my blog:-

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/oct/hosting_video_and_web_apps_on_skydrive

SkyDrive serves video extremely fast, and any other file type too!

The next level up from SkyDrive is Azure, starting with Azure Storage. There is no official storage limit on Azure, but anecdotal evidence indicates hundreds of terabytes.

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/sep/azure_preview

By: cyber

cyber — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:29:23 +0000

That is a great point. So, what online file storage solution does? What do you use? Thank you.

By: Angry Apple User

Angry Apple User — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:27:42 +0000

oops, maybe you are a real person and not Microsoft… if so, I’m sorry Karthik…

By: Angry Apple User

Angry Apple User — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:25:17 +0000

Yes, we remember Microsoft. They dropped support for HOW MANY products for Macs?? — uh, like Microsoft Explorer!!! Fuck Microsoft. (this comment directed towards Karthik, uh microsoft).

BUT, great article, I am checking out the 3 alternatives. Thank you.