Comments on: Microsoft SkyDrive Jumps to 25GB Free Online Storage

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:22:39 +0000

Skydrive webpage activated my webcam and took a lot of time to load the page (waiting for the webcam to be activated). When I switched my webcam off then it made Internet Explorer crash.

By: heckabird

heckabird — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:28:15 +0000

Is Skydrive RAID 0 protected? Am I silly to ask?

By: aravind

aravind — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:39:34 +0000

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:56:43 +0000

netster007x wrote:

Hey, how about ADrive.com? Free 50GB quota, free Java uploader works in any browser (Chrome :) ) w/ no installs necessary, lets you upload entire file directories up to 2GB per upload, even has free backup program to auto-upload to ADrive.

I've heard someone say that if you legitimately reach the 25GB limit on SkyDrive that they will actually give you more storage for free. They'll just be checking to make sure you're not hosting any illegal content or abusing the system. So it's quite possible that you could get over 50GB with SkyDrive.

Michael Dobrofsky wrote:

SkyDrive isn’t anywhere near convinient as using services like Dropbox (which is bound to get better with the final release).

Right now, yes, Dropbox is better. But give it a few months and I'm sure Microsoft will be bringing over some of their synchronization or Live Mesh tools that will take care of the same kind of thing.

Navjot Singh wrote:

Does Skydrive offer resume support for download manager?

I'm not actually sure, but if I had to guess I'd say that they do support download managers.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:11:50 +0000

Extremely cool!

By: Navjot Singh

Navjot Singh — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:21:31 +0000

Does Skydrive offer resume support for download manager?

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:19:22 +0000

Hey, how about ADrive.com? Free 50GB quota, free Java uploader works in any browser (Chrome ) w/ no installs necessary, lets you upload entire file directories up to 2GB per upload, even has free backup program to auto-upload to ADrive.

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:53:45 +0000

SkyDrive isn’t anywhere near convinient as using services like Dropbox (which is bound to get better with the final release).

P.S. IF you are worried about security/privacy, just encrypt your important docs before you upload them, or use a TrueCrypt virtual drive to store stuff on

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:42:26 +0000

Change wrote:

They’re definitely doing better, but not there yet. They need to make all their online storage, sync & share tools work better together: SkyDrive, Mesh & Sync (FolderShare). If they can incorporate versioning such as Dropbox (or AS3 w/ JungleDisk), then they’d have me. Until then, it’s a combo of Dropbox and Sync (FolderShare) for me..

Combining Live Mesh and Skydrive would definitely be the perfect solution in my opinion.

Joe wrote:

There is one type of file that you can bulk-upload using free software: you can upload images using Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Nice catch! I didn't know that you could use Windows Live Photo Gallery with Skydrive.

Anonymous wrote:

Is it even close to reasonable/smart to trust your data, privacy, etc., to Micro$oft or anyone else online in the land of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, RIAA, MPAA, etc.?

That depends... I never put data on third-party machines that I truly care about getting shared at one point or another.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:03:50 +0000

Is it even close to reasonable/smart to trust your data, privacy, etc., to Micro$oft or anyone else online in the land of Homeland Security, the Patriot Act, RIAA, MPAA, etc.?