Dropbox Platform Aims to Eliminate the Hard Drive

[exfileme]

Dropbox is not just for file syncing anymore.

Dropbox Platform Aims to Eliminate the Hard Drive : Read more

 

[razzb3d]

No.

I will never store my personal crap online. Ever. I'd rather store them on floppy disks.

 

[csf60]

Well screw dropbox then.

 

[fimbulvinter]

Reminder this is one of the companies that just hands over your info without a fight to the 5 eyes of the world security state.

 

[Sunius]

Yea good luck booting from the cloud...

 

[Vorador2]

Great, because i'd love to let the NSA all over my stuff.

 

[drwho1]

Hell NO!
I rather have 100 Hard Drives than 1 "cloud".

 

[Elevory]

Have fun with that, Dropbox.

 

[frish]

What's with all of the sarcy comments. Don't want it? Don't use it. It's that simple. Isn't the choice of using it a good thing overall rather than just complaining about something that didn't suit you anyway. If there's stuff you really don't want to be seen, then don't upload it to the cloud. It's just simple security measures really.

 

[fimbulvinter]

It's called the free exchange of opinions and ideas. Don't like it? Don't read it.

 

[farensabri]

cloud storage eating up all the data bandwidth quota... no thanks. rather have portable hard drive.

 

[PedanticNo1]

Heh, silly Dropbox. I only use you to store nonessential things- like unfinished Skyrim mod projects! People who put important things in the Cloud . . . all I have to say it, Megaupload. Not the same situation, obviously, but who'
s to say the government wont go after Dropbox eventually? Perhaps some people store illegal materials on there, which would be a nice excuse for a warrant.

 

[Michael Rino]

I prefer copy.com. Quite new, but perhaps the new dropbox.

If you register with the link below you get 20 GB instead of 15 GB.

Furthermore you earn 5 GB ! of extra free storage for yourself each time you introduce someone new to Copy. This is a limited time opportunity during the promotion phase.

https://copy.com?r=ZwE0u7

 

[Spooderman]

I use skydrive for school stuff but nothing personal, I don't want people reading my personal info like addresses and names.

 

[Priox]

As long as tech companies are giving governments direct access to their servers, this isn't going to happen.

 

[syrious1]

drop box sync is really system intensive for older XP based systems constantly requiring a 1GB RAM resource on computers, when you only have at the most 3.5 available.

Skydrive IMO does a much better job of syncing/sharing/categorizing your files and is nominally less resource intensive, not to mention to multitude of added benefits in conjunction with the new MS Office.

 

[fimbulvinter]

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data

 

[d_kuhn]

Yea I can see this working.

8:00am (click)... go get coffee... (click)... read mail... (click) oops time to head home for the day.

 

[Guest]

They are just storing your data on a hard drive not eliminating it.

 

[Guest]

This NSA BS is gonna put a damper most cloud services and their future growth plans.