Bitcasa Alternatives

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13 responses to “Bitcasa Alternatives”

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   Mark R

   I’m curious what you think of Transporter (www.filetransporter.com). At this point, I am getting tired of shuffling my data from one cloud service to another and would rather take control of it once and for all. This seems like a pretty solid candidate.

   Thanks,
   Mark

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      Cloud Storage Buzz Team

      I like the idea of Transporter, but I have not tried one personally. It would not be much different than setting up your own OwnCloud. The problem I would have is it uses your home Internet connection, and in my case that is not a very fast upload, so access from another location would be slow.

      You would also still want a backup in another location in case of theft, fire, flood etc so having the Transporter backed up to another service would work or having it off site. A NAS with CrashPlan on it sounds better all the time.

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2. 

   Robert Rael

   Nobody seems to mention Zoolz. Has me worried that it’s not that good? I use it primarily for my irreplaceable photography files. I like to have a copy on my main harddrive and at least one other copy somewhere else. Zoolz is “cold storage” so if I ever need to restore my files, I need to give them 3-5 hours notice, but in my situation that is perfect! Plus, with zoolz I am able to preview the files stored via their Web site, including RAW images. I used to burn DVDs, but man that is a time consuming process and seems to have a decent failure rate. Bitcasa was so perfect, transfer speeds were great. I agree, that if I am going to pay someone $10 a month for 1TB of data it’s going to be Google Drive, a company I can trust. I felt something was coming with Bitcasa, but never ever expected they would give us so little time to move off of their service and charge 1000% more for it.

   With Google Drive I am finding that downloading a zip file of my files is an added step, but hopefully with those links someone mentioned, I can make it a drive letter on my system.

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      Cloud Storage Buzz Team

      I have used Zoolz. It is ok but the cold storage is no comparison to Bitcasa. Zoolz instant storage would be a comparison but it is expensive compared to Google Drive for example. For backup Zoolz would be ok, but I would use a private encryption key.

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3. 

   Dheeraj

   Using applications like ExpanDrive or NetDrive, Google Drive can be made to act like an online harddrive. Just like Bitcasa.

   Google Drive for Work gives unlimited storage at 50$/month for 5 users.

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4. 

   FanBoy

   Hello, i think that https://hubic.com is a good bitcasa alternative :) test it

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5. 

   Yurek1964

   Hi!

   I’m sorry for my poor English.

   I’m looking for a service, that will keep my data forever (forever, as long as I pay a subscription), even when I erase it from my hard drive (something like archive storage).

   I follow the news about online storage services and two things concerns me the most – changing the rules (few years ago Mozy stoped unlimited plan, now Bitcasa)
   and prices (again Bitcasa).

   I try few services and in my opinion worth a try are:
   https://www.opendrive.com/

   https://www.jottacloud.com/

   http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/

   and maybe

   https://www.hightail.com/

   I would like to know what the Cloud Storage Buzz Team thinks about this (if it is possible).

   P.S.

   I’m agree with Your opinion about Bitcasa.
   You used strong words, but in my opinion those words are still too soft…

   Yurek

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      Cloud Storage Buzz Team

      I am pretty busy this week. Bitcasa was unique in the sense you could upload your data and not keep local copies (part of the problem many are now facing) but I don’t think any of the services are an exact replacement, but I also think people should always keep a local copy of their files.

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      Dheeraj

      I think Google Drive for Work sounds good for your use scenario (look at my comment below).

      Since it’s Google, I reckon it would be pretty reliable.

      Jottacloud says “we would define storage consumption over 10 TB as excessive and beyond the scope of normal usage.”

      SOS Online Backup will not delete files when deleted from the hard drive, but so won’t services like Crashplan, Zoolz etc (Unlimited backup with infinite retention)… however, these services are backup services and not cloud storage services. Downloading files backup is more of ‘recovering’ than ‘downloading’.

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         Yurek1964

         Hallo, I didn’t know about Jottacloud limitation.
         I have tested several online file storages.
         As I mentined before, I’m looking for unlimited file storage.
         It is true that SOS Online Backup is backup service and not cloud storage service.
         Zoolz is OK, but is something wrong with them desktop client, download – upload speed is “blocked” always on the same level (slow). I live in Europe, maybe in America is better.
         Mentioned here Hubic is not bad at all, but is not unlimited.
         I have used OpenDrive free plan, but there is many limitations, perhaps Unlimited Plan works better.
         I wouldn’t recommend Pogoplug.
         Since thay started the service, the price is very low and it’s the time to rise the price… (that is my guess)
         Google Drive for Work is very good, but is not cheap.
         So, I don’t know, if exist good, not expensive, unlimited online long time file storage.
         Maybe You can give me some ideas, suggestions.
         I’ll be very grateful.
         Once again I’m sorry for my poor English.

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            Cloud Storage Buzz Team

            I hate to say it but realistically you will not find unlimited file storage and if you do it will cost a fortune like Bitcasa is trying to charge you. You can find some decent deals, like Google Drive, perhaps even OneDrive if you have a Office365 account but I know of NO ONE offering what Bitcasa was offering.

            Unlimited backup is easier to find because the instant access is not needed, but as soon as you need instant access unlimited storage is at a decent price with no limits is next, if not, impossible.

            If you find something come back and let us know I am sure we would all be interested in hearing about it.

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6. 

   Remus110

   Yes … i am one of loosers who paid bitcasa and help growing and now i see myself with a serious kick in my balls from bitcasa. Basicly i have 2 choises … pay 99 usd / month for 10 Tb and save my data or loosing my files. I do some math … at actual download speed and with my free time to take data back i will need 6 months to take back all that i have. Ok except the fact that first of all i will need the free space on my pc. I was send an e-mail to bitcasa. The answer was stunning for me. They claim that i am on 0.5 % bitcasa users who use over 1 Tb of space. In my opinion 1 Tb from infinite is less than 0% … so … I replyed to bitcasa with an e-mail recived from them when i first created my account when i asked clearly exactly about that … how much mean infinite. I was said clearly i will need between 1.5 and 2 Tb … answer was no problem is all ok with us. And now … Anyway i was wished bitcasa 0 customers, bankrupt, and another same kind wishes. It seems for me is there no viable alternative for bitcasa. So far i was found pogoplug and opendrive but they are not even closed … My problem is the speed. Neither bitcasa for me it was not the ideal for speed but al least i was uploaded with around 500 kb/sec and downloaded with around 400 – 600 Kb/sec. Other US services have 250 kb/sec and that is a bad joke in my opinion. Unfortunetly is there no eu server affordable for me. And to pay 10 usd for 1 tb at bitcasa is a bad deal for me … i better pay to google and at least they have speed !!!
   I think i will stay with pogoplug … at least is cheap.
   F**k bitcasa … you s**k

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      Cloud Storage Buzz Team

      It is unfortunate that Bitcasa has decided to do this. It is clear they are shifting to the b2b space and don’t care about customers. Perhaps if Bitcasa customers complained to the Bitcasa partners like Samsung about the bad business practices Bitcasa might take some notice. Course how do you get Samsung etc to hear?

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