This post is about one of our advertisers. I’ll try not to let it alter my opinion! But disclosure is always good!
Ewedrive is secure (SSL) online file storage, but unlike many services you do not pay a fee monthly for a set amount of storage. Instead, you pay a fee between 5-15p a week per GB or £1.90-£4.90 weekly for unlimited disk space. 1GB is offered to users free-of-charge. There are no data transfer or bandwidth costs.
The site’s upload mechanism is powered through Java, HTML and WebDAV (web folders). The end user may choose and switch between these at will, each having obvious benefits. Java allows drag-and-drop uploading but it only works if you have Java installed; HTML forms are time-consuming (to add each file to upload) and don’t support drag-and-drop and WebDAV provides good integration but isn’t useful if you only need to quickly upload/download a file on a computer which isn’t yours!
Pricing depends on the duration you are purchasing storage for: for 1-12 weeks it is 15p a GB or £4.90 unlimited, for 13-26 it’s 12p and £3.90, for 27-40 it’s 8p and £2.90 and for 41+ it’s 5p and £1.90 (respectively). This, I think, is pretty costly considering that you can get 1GB for 13p on a good value SATA-II hard disk. However, an advantage of a remote service is that your data will be safe.
You pay for storage by topping up your account with money from PayPal. Alternatively, you can earn 5p in credit for each person you refer. Credit can be transferred to other users.
The site is a good idea and pretty cheap (£2.60 for 1GB/year) and their unlimited packages are especially interesting. However, when most web hosting comes with an abundance of web space is this really necessary? RentMyComputer, still in early development, will allow people on shared hosting to ‘rent’ their disk space.
I don’t think I’ll be using this service, despite that it is tempting, because I have a free lifetime 5GB account at Box.net. However, one suggestion I have for Ewedrive is adding FTP and SCP upload methods.
Tags: file storage, storage, storage 2.0, web 2.0, web2, web 2, web2.0, box.net, ewedrive
I’d go for Mozy over this. I love my Mozy… =)
And, and the theme is better now. Good job by Dan.
Indeed it is, bit buggy, though.
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