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ADrive: 50GB of free storage with a mediocre file transfer process
ADrive's "coming soon" section says that the company will be adding a desktop client for drag and drop uploading, personalized snapshots for retrieving older versions of your data, and premium accounts in case 50GB isn't enough for you.
But right now, all you get is a web based uploader. While you can upload multiple files at once, there is no way to upload entire directories and subdirectories, which means if you wanted to use ADrive as a complete backup solution you'd need to recreate your desktop file structure and upload the contents of each folder one by one.
Upload and download speeds are also not the greatest we've seen, ranging from 100KB/sec to 200KB/sec. At that rate, it will take a lot of time to upload or retrieve 50GB of data. There doesn't seem to be a file size limit. We started to upload a 2GB file with no problem, but we didn't wait around for the upload to finish because it was going to take an estimated 13 hours to complete.
You can also share files you've uploaded by clicking a "share" button to make them public.
While we're a bit underwhelmed at the moment, we're keeping an eye on this company, if for no other reason than the fact that we would love to find a free backup solution that gives us enough room to store more than a few important files.
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yoxzsony said 8:28AM on 2-12-2008
ya, this site is very good
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Edward said 12:39PM on 11-18-2007
Where does it talk about sharing?
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justin said 2:23PM on 11-18-2007
When I tried to upload a file (~2gb) it only uploaded less than half...not sure if the error is on my part (which i doubt) or theirs.
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Steve said 6:41PM on 11-18-2007
Doesn't Divshare offer unlimited file storage?
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TEILLU said 6:42PM on 11-18-2007
MediaFire offers unlimited free storage...
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ryaninc said 6:44PM on 11-18-2007
Yeah, I use MediaFire for stuff like this, but the possibility of a desktop client sounds most excellent. I signed up for an account. Here's hoping it doesn't take too long to get said client...
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krz said 7:06AM on 11-19-2007
humyo.com offers unlimited space also
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fred said 7:21PM on 2-10-2008
not unlimited or at least, not unlimited as of this post
James said 12:09PM on 11-19-2007
Would it be possible to script this using GreaseMonkey or maybe a command-line browser? I'm thinking that if all you do is authenticate, then POST a file, it shouldn't be that hard. Haven't actually tried the site yet, though...
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Alex said 9:43PM on 11-19-2007
www.uploadmart.com offers 200gb storage with 2gb per file. its much better than this corporate site, adrive. i upload 2gb files to uploadmart in just an hour, now thats fast. i only have comcast home line too.
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pjpw said 7:38AM on 12-22-2007
There is very little info around about this company. What do you know about it?
AmnlstcBhvr said 9:23AM on 11-20-2007
is this like x-drive?
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mahesh said 9:30AM on 12-01-2007
nice......
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Tim said 8:47AM on 12-06-2007
ADrive just released directory uploads. Much more useful.
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periyasamy said 8:41AM on 12-08-2007
i need drive
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xFilthyxJesusx said 4:13PM on 1-08-2008
Any others?
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prakashk87 said 8:48AM on 1-08-2008
very nice, usefull...etc...
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salik said 12:01PM on 1-22-2008
i wanna use this for my storage
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salik said 12:15PM on 1-22-2008
i wana use htis for uploading my data
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