Reply to: 'Internet' network drive

[daviejones]

Not a good backup solution if your house burns down.

The other issue for file sharing is that most of us are on much slower uplinks than down. A NAS on your home ADSL is going to limit the speed to ~256Kish, which is pretty poor.

If your house burns down, then data is likely to be the least of your worries...

[VectraMan]

Why not just buy a NAS box and allow access to it from anywhere???

Not a good backup solution if your house burns down.

The other issue for file sharing is that most of us are on much slower uplinks than down. A NAS on your home ADSL is going to limit the speed to ~256Kish, which is pretty poor.

[daviejones]

You have to be careful with dynamic IPs but this works well.

Apart from the dynamic IP issue, this would seem the best option to me.....

I would go for the Apple TimeCapsule, as this is also a wifi base station and will be silent, fast and for £399 for 1TB...hard to rule out!!!

[Moscow Mule]

Why not just buy a NAS box and allow access to it from anywhere???

You have to be careful with dynamic IPs but this works well.

[VectraMan]

Nildram ceased their online storage service some time ago, which is probably why the link no longer works.

It's still advertised on their front page.

[daviejones]

Why not just buy a NAS box and allow access to it from anywhere???

[madhippy]

just started using jungledisk.com

seems ok - bit diff. to tell how much it costs tho due to way they charge ...

[ladymuck]

Nildram ceased their online storage service some time ago, which is probably why the link no longer works.

If you prefer to host the files yourself, you can get hold of Easy File Share, which runs as a service on your PC or server. Really easy to use and set up. You can either buy the software for just under $50 or get a time limited freebie if you know you only need it for a short time. It also has a SSL option if you're worried about security.

http://www.sharing-file.com/

[VectraMan]

Bump.

I've been looking at these. XDrive required a US phone number, which wasn't a good sign, and it's AOL. I tried to sign up to the Nildram service (which isn't free), but their website wouldn't work. Not a good sign either.

http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/ sounded very promising, but the "live protect" feature the reviews praised (backs up as soon as files change) has been removed from the latest version of the software.

So I've settled on http://www.carbonite.com/. $50 p.a. for unlimited backup. The downside is that it's meant for one PC only (I think it's clever enough to work out network drives), and it's a backup solution rather than somewhere to copy files to, but it does integrate with Windows Explorer and seems to be working well in a fit and forget way.

[ladymuck]

Nildram (part of Pipex) also do free online storage, accessable via mobile as well as the internetwebthing

http://broadband.nildram.net/online-storage/

Dunno what it's like but I've been an ADSL customer of theirs for years and that side of things has always been reliable.

[NoddY]

Further advice from me it not to trust remote storage, who knows who has access. Companies change ownership, privacy policies and jurisdictions. However, file level encryption is a nice technical solution to this problem.

[TheFaQQer]

Correct link: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/online-storage-drive/

Not a bad find, cheers.

Doh - missed the hyphen! The login page is http://drive.123-reg.co.uk

[xoggoth]

On access I only found out recently that any website can be shown and used as disc storage in ordinary Windows (not internet) Explorer. Just type in the ftp address.

[Clippy]

123reg are doing a freebie one too - http://drive.123reg.co.uk

no idea if it's any good or not - I've just signed up for it though!

Correct link: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/online-storage-drive/

Not a bad find, cheers.

[TheFaQQer]

123reg are doing a freebie one too - http://drive.123reg.co.uk

no idea if it's any good or not - I've just signed up for it though!