Amazon S3, the online storage service from the mega-retailer, has been on my radar for a couple of months, but unless I'm mistaken, JungleDisk is the first desktop-based (rather than web-based) app that takes advantage of the service. Basically, JungleDisk integrates S3 storage with Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux allowing you to manage files stored on the service as though they were ordinary files on a regular hard drive. JungleDisk's intended use is for backing up important files and transferring files between computers, and the web site has a handy calculator for figuring out the cost depending on your use. Want 20GB of storage and 2GB transfer? $3.40/mo. Want 500MB of storage and 2GB transfer? $0.48/mo. Apart from Amazon's fees, JungleDisk itself is free.JungleDisk: Online storage with Amazon S3
Amazon S3, the online storage service from the mega-retailer, has been on my radar for a couple of months, but unless I'm mistaken, JungleDisk is the first desktop-based (rather than web-based) app that takes advantage of the service. Basically, JungleDisk integrates S3 storage with Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux allowing you to manage files stored on the service as though they were ordinary files on a regular hard drive. JungleDisk's intended use is for backing up important files and transferring files between computers, and the web site has a handy calculator for figuring out the cost depending on your use. Want 20GB of storage and 2GB transfer? $3.40/mo. Want 500MB of storage and 2GB transfer? $0.48/mo. Apart from Amazon's fees, JungleDisk itself is free.
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5-24-2006 @ 6:17PM
mark said...
this service and this rather cheap software are all crap!!
they must have a file size limit but they just wont admit it or something.
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5-24-2006 @ 6:48PM
Jeremy said...
I gotta disagree here. I use Jungledisk on 4 different computers , all of them pointing to the same store, and it rocks. I use it in combination with Novell's Netdrive that is free and let's you map a WebDAV based share to a drive letter. Because of the caching that happens, usage is surprisingly quick for being tied to a remote share. It even works on Windows Vista, though Netdrive does not. You don't appear to need it since Vista let's you map a drive to a WebDAV server natively. Can't beat the price here either
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5-30-2006 @ 8:15AM
Sam said...
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