Unhandled Perception
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Xdrive: Free Secure Online Storage

Xdrive provides a free 5GB online storage account. With this account you can store photos, files, videos, and whatever else large files you want online. This is actually a great way to share files with friends since emailing large files (greater than a few Meg) is kinda of rude.

Link:
http://www.xdrive.com/

posted by Veign at 4:48 PM

2 Comments:

  • Hey, I did try Xdrive. The first disadvantage is it is restricted to AOL users or those with an AOL screenname. Secondly, the whole signup process is tedious and slow. It took a long time for the Xdrive’s clunky web interface to finally appear.

    Backing up files using Xdrive was really sluggish. It was appalling to see the snail-like pace when I tried to upload a few gigabytes of data. If my Internet connection is slow, then the whole process becomes more tedious. Then from time to time I had to struggle with multiple windows and error messages when I tried to upload a couple of big files.

    All I can say is that working with Xdrive is not that user friendly. So after fiddling with Xdrive for some time I decided that I should stick with my IBackup for Windows application for secure, fast and reliable backups of all my important data. Operations you do with IBackup are very fast and as it does incremental and compressed backups the load on your network bandwidth is considerably reduced. Moreover, I like their options to map the online account to my PC, to share files and folders with others and to manage all my music ands video files with minimum of fuss.

    By Anonymous Sancho, at 7:17 AM EST  

  • I should remove you comment since its clearly spam. In fact when I searched for the software name and the name you used to post under I can find many posts pushing the product. However, I will keep it and give my review.

    iBackup has one of the worst interfaces I have seen. Its look like something designed for Win98. If they can't spend the time and money on the interface then how can you trust the underlying code.

    Also, they are NOT FREE and offer no free space. Their 5GB is $10 / month. You can get a full blown hosting account for that price.

    Trust me on this and avoid iBackup and find a more professional company.

    By Blogger Veign, at 10:11 AM EST  

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