ZumoDrive announces pricing (and it's cheaper than it seemed)

http://blog.zumodrive.com/being-transparent/

by pg • 18 years ago

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jwilliams3• 18 years ago

Does anyone know - Do you sign up for an account of size "X", or do you just get an account and they bill based upon how much you use?

hbien• 18 years ago

When you sign up, they ask you what size you want. I haven't gotten an account yet, I just saw an image of it from:

http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/zumodrive_is_goi...

jwilliams3• 18 years ago

Ah ok - think a usage based account with a cap would be a good option too.

cubicle67• 18 years ago

Looks good, but I can't stand the cheesy fake-bubbly voiceover on the video. I keep expecting her to tell me it's only 3 easy payments of $19.95 and if I order in the next 10 minutes I'll get a free [something... ]

Anyway, good work, but please rethink the video.

arockwell• 18 years ago

The video is cheesy, but I thought that it was entertaining.

shergill• 18 years ago

$2.99/month for 10gig is not too shabby!

owkaye2• 18 years ago

How about $2.25 a month for 250gig instead?

sadiq• 18 years ago

Where?

fauigerzigerk• 18 years ago

So that's roughly the same as storing everything on S3 and downloading almost all of it once per month. Of course it has functionality as well, so the pricing appears reasonable to me if used for data that is actually used and not just archived.

jwilliams3• 18 years ago

Interesting - I wonder if they can/do detect identical files and store them once?

One of the storage solutions I worked on did this - EMC Centera - mostly to handle email archive (in corporates you can end up with the same attachment duplicated many times over - it's a bit of a pain).

modoc• 18 years ago

I built a file storage web system several years ago (very popular when free, but when the free beta ended not many people wanted to pay). We computed the hash of each uploaded file, and only stored one copy of the file based on the hash. The database based filesystem simply recorded the hash of the file as basically a pointer to the actual file. This allowed multiple people to have the same file, with different file names (stored in the db), but only actually store the file once. Very simple.

ZumoDrive announces pricing (and it's cheaper than it seemed)

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