Comments on: AMD LIVE! Media Vault Gives You 25GB Of Free Storage

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:05:56 +0000

Yes, I’m sure all of the big companies are planning something and I can’t wait to see what Google and Microsoft brings. I think Google’s will be pretty cool but, as hard as it is to say, I think Microsoft’s might be even better. They’ll know exactly how to integrate it into the Windows Operating System so that it works seamlessly and it will feel like it isn’t even an addon. Hopefully Google surprises me with the quality of software that they release.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 05:05:16 +0000

Isn’t Google planning something like that.

Even MS are planning the Live Drive or something. Let’s see how things work out when the big players jump in.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:21:48 +0000

There are many of these systems now offering online storage – my fond hope is that eventually competition and marketing will force the bandwidth limits to go up and for better software to be the key. Maybe Google will even put in an offering.

By: Radu Capan

Radu Capan — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:50:39 +0000

A back-up solution with FTP (that real work, for me at least) is storage.vmn.net, but it's "only" 1Giga (for free; more for money). You cannot have online access to the files (with browser), but it's a great storage, which works with your ordinary FTP client. Any other free storage with FTP accounts that you know?

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:16:37 +0000

Xdrive’s desktop software is a lot better. Have decided to backup my photos out there to Xdrive.

Am using Mozy for my files, because I like their encrpytion.

Now, I need to figure out what exactly to dump in AMD Live.

I think a single upgrade to 9.95 for a month or so will be useful to retreive all 25Gb of your data as you suggested Ryan.

Afterall all your stuff is definitely more than $10!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:55:05 +0000

Yeah, I started using the desktop software but it isn’t that great. FTP support would be awesome but these companies want to give you a reason to come to the site. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to show you advertisements…unless they came out with their own FTP client.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:14:50 +0000

One of the many I looked at had FTP support, but I couldn’t get it to work with FireFTP. I gave up earlier (which is what happened before) with trying to upload My Music since I kept getting errors. Haven’t gone back in yet to see if the files I did successfully upload are in my file manager yet.

ETA: Well, the first batch of files (about half dozen) are now in the file manager, but still think there are some more that were successfully uploaded that aren’t there yet.

By: Radu Capan

Radu Capan — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:52:53 +0000

It seems that all the huge-space-providers aren’t able to provide a good software. I hate to use the navigator to upload files of 10MB or 20MB… It should be an-ftp-client-like tool for that. A tool that real work! (But after all, they all want you on the web, for the ads… No? Maybe the desktop softwares will work better after will become full with ads.)

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:53:50 +0000

Their desktop software doesn’t work very well (or at all), but the web interface is good. Just don’t expect to get access to your files right-away after you upload them, seems to take some time for the ‘file manager’ to update.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:17:43 +0000

They are also known as a MediaMax which I signed up for earlier this week when I was getting frustrated with XDrive. I’ll have to take a another look at this again and see why I didn’t care for it. May be it was the 1 GB bandwidth limit but this would be more to backup my MP3 collection as well as pictures.