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May 18, 2006
ElephantDrive: Free Unlimited Storage
Elephant Drive, in association with Amazon is creating a service similar to that of Xdrive. However, they offer unlimited offsite backup free of charge if you sign up as a beta tester!
If you want something that’s ALWAYS going to be around, and where you won’t depend on the good graces of ElephantDrive deciding to offer it for free, try Jungle Disk.
Jungle Disk is a free slick front-end for Amazon S3 that lets you use it as a webdav disk drive. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there’s GPL’d code that lets other people develop alternative compatible front-ends.
Yeah, you’ll have to pay the few cents per gigabyte that S3 charges, but you won’t be sending your data to anyone except Amazon - plus, your data will be encrypted with an open source encryption protocol and accessible via open source software!
Given this alternative I can’t imagine why you’d go with free (for now, and possibly poisoned) beer over paying the few cents to Amazon and being able to access your files via something with a GPL file format that does webdav…
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If you want something that’s ALWAYS going to be around, and where you won’t depend on the good graces of ElephantDrive deciding to offer it for free, try Jungle Disk.
Jungle Disk is a free slick front-end for Amazon S3 that lets you use it as a webdav disk drive. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there’s GPL’d code that lets other people develop alternative compatible front-ends.
Yeah, you’ll have to pay the few cents per gigabyte that S3 charges, but you won’t be sending your data to anyone except Amazon - plus, your data will be encrypted with an open source encryption protocol and accessible via open source software!
Given this alternative I can’t imagine why you’d go with free (for now, and possibly poisoned) beer over paying the few cents to Amazon and being able to access your files via something with a GPL file format that does webdav…
check out Jungle Disk
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