Comments on: Free Unlimited Storage from Elephant Drive http://www.yugatech.com/blog/freewares/free-unlimited-storage-from-elephant-drive/ Philippines, Technology News & Reviews Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: dust http://www.yugatech.com/blog/freewares/free-unlimited-storage-from-elephant-drive/#comment-21896 dust Thu, 18 May 2006 23:51:11 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=850#comment-21896 There's also Box.Net ... not unlimited though, but at least you can also use it as a file sharing network There’s also Box.Net … not unlimited though, but at least you can also use it as a file sharing network

]]> By: Daniel Drucker http://www.yugatech.com/blog/freewares/free-unlimited-storage-from-elephant-drive/#comment-21482 Daniel Drucker Thu, 18 May 2006 15:50:28 +0000 http://www.yugatech.com/blog/?p=850#comment-21482 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... http://digg.com/software/Jungle_Disk:_mount_Amazon_S3_as_a_drive_for_cheap_reliable_infinite_storage 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…

http://digg.com/software/Jungle_Disk:_mount_Amazon_S3_as_a_drive_for_cheap_reliable_infinite_storage

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