metavalent

Member since: Aug 3rd, 2006

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AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free (Download Squad)

Aug 3rd 2006 8:06PM "You can backup practically any file you want. Xdrive's maximum size for an individual file is 2.5 GB. You are also limited by the total space available in your account. If you need more space, you can easily add space to your Xdrive at any time by going to Manage Space in your account. There is no other limit on how much you can backup."

See http://www.xdrive.com/support/faqs/backup_faq.jsp

The real limiting factor to all this online storage business -- as I've ranted since before the internet was born -- is lack of UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH and failure of networks to correctly architect and provision symmetric bandwidth.

Of course, if you misbehave with their bandwidth, in their sole discretion and on-the-fly definition of the term, you shall be summarily executed.

See http://xdrive.com/terms.jsp

AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free (Download Squad)

Aug 3rd 2006 7:49PM So I tried to post a question about this on the Xdrive Forums, but I forgot that they are TIGHTLY MODERATED over there at Xdrive ... they have censored and stamped out my posts before. If Xdrive continues this policy of not letting customers talk to one another, describe problems, seek and find solutions, then Xdrive could well go down with AOL. So this X-AOL deal could be down right prophetic in name.

Letting customers rant, rave, complain, and HELP one another is an absolute must feature of Web2.0, every bit as much as AJAX/DHTML/Drag-N-Drop page content.

http://INBOX.com/ is already offering very competitive bundled mail and storage service that starts at 2GB free with some active INBOX users reporting recent bump to 5GB, recently. INBOX has a huge head start on this and odds are it will take years for Xdrive and AOL to even come close to such an integrated service.

X-AOL: "You've Got FAIL?"

We'll see.

AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free (Download Squad)

Aug 3rd 2006 5:24PM From the post on AOL site, it looks like the 5GB service is a loss leader to get people to upgrade to the 50GB service. My question is, I've been paying for the 5GB service for years, now. As an existing, loyal Xdrive Customer, what's in it for us? Our 5GB better turn free at the same time, or we should get the 50GB at a huge discount for all our years of paying the freight so that this deal could even happen at all.