Is anyone using Bitcasa beta?

it's a really good service - it does need a few tweaks but I am sure they will adress these in future releases. I do have a few questions in the mean time though and their support seems to be lacking.
 
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its a similar concept but with important differences. It checks to see what is already in the "cloud" and if the data you are uploading eg: songs already exists and if it does then you dont have to upload your version you simply have access to whats already there, saving on bandwidth.

Also the cloud becomes your hard drive which is infinate so you dont keep them locally any more at all, once you have "cloudified" a folder instead of saving it locally you save it to the cloud. They also have a web portal that allows you to access this from anywhere with an internet connection.

handy for logging in at your families house and showing photos/videos. etc

You are also able to "cloudify" external drives and once disconnected you can still access your data -esentially you could get rid of all externals this way.
 
Shades said:
its a similar concept but with important differences. It checks to see what is already in the "cloud" and if the data you are uploading eg: songs already exists and if it does then you dont have to upload your version you simply have access to whats already there, saving on bandwidth.

Also the cloud becomes your hard drive which is infinate so you dont keep them locally any more at all, once you have "cloudified" a folder instead of saving it locally you save it to the cloud. They also have a web portal that allows you to access this from anywhere with an internet connection.

handy for logging in at your families house and showing photos/videos. etc

You are also able to "cloudify" external drives and once disconnected you can still access your data -esentially you could get rid of all externals this way.
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So it's like Apple's old iDisk then?

I have everything backed up in the cloud but I'm not quite ready to wholly store things there yet. Companies go bust, servers lose data, and most importantly, I lose my internet connection once or twice a month when my router plays up or the ISP screws up.
 
All Data is encrypted client side and therefore cannot be accessed their side at all.

It does take a certain amount of trust in the company and initially I wont store anythiing critical on there - however I presume that the measures that they have in place to prevent data loss on their servers is more reliable than my HD at home. (fingers crossed)
 
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