Cloud storage WITHOUT syncing

I too have been searching. I work in the Cloud server industry and find the online archive market to be lacking sorely. The best option so far was Amazon S3, however with upload speeds of 43Kbps from the UK to the Ireland datacentre, uploading my 150GB of data is not viable. To be clear, I can upload to dropbox for other data at 2Mbps via our 1Gb service here at the office.

I did have a very satisfying experience with Amazon Cloud Drive, it was fast and well priced for my purposes. They recently however changed the model to a Synced one and that killed it for me and I cancelled my account.

So the search continues...

I have taken the plunge into Bitcasa. So far it is looking good. I transferred 60GB in two hours, which is impressive.

I like that it appears as a local drive which mean transfers using command prompt tools such as CP and RSYNC is very easy.

It's amazing that iCloud doesn't offer anything like this. Apple seems to be giving us no option due to their absurd switch to solid state and it seems like a no brainer to let us dump all of our stuff into the cloud on a service they provide. They clearly have the datacenter space....

But yes. Bitcasa I think is the best out there for non-synced cloud storage.

ShareFile by Citrix is potentially a viable option for what you are saying. When you look it up, look past the pitch that it is for sending large files, it is actually cloud storage that you can mount like a network drive... that also allows you to send and recieve unlimited file sizes.

And I immediately regret posting that because for Mac OSX, it only Syncs. With a Windows machine, you can map the drive. I do it at work that way, but realized you were probably wanting something that worked that way on OSX. Sorry. But it is still a great service anyways.

I have the same issue with syncing to laptop and not saving any space that way. I would like access to my data on all devices (ipad,iphone, 2 laptops, etc) and found this post. I have a few options I am mulling over:

Secure home server w/ harddrive connected for storage- either through old desktop or R-pi... but am

concerned with electric bill (desktop) and access/transfer speeds (R-pi)

Router with external usb connection for harddrive back up - this seems to appeal to me right now because I need

a new router (2wire) and ease of cloud access

I don't have experience with these option but believe they will work and am leaning towards the Router with harddrive connected option the most.

Yes, that's the main feature I need from a cloud service, I really don't like the Dropbox/Google Drive/Skydrive way of managing things. I want my data to be there, and just there 🙂

Wuala is 100% private and encrypted (nobody knows your password so be careful in case you lose it!). It can also sync to multiple location and even on removable drives!

Wuala is all that I need, the fact that it uses Java is a plus because it's multiplatform (I mainly use Linux at home).

Also servers are quite close from here (Italy) as they're located in Switzerland, Germany and France 🙂

hope that helped you, if you have questions just ask

regards

Hi

I have mounted my Skydrive and Box account as a network drive in Windows but I am sure it can be done on Mac as well - see link below for how to do it on windows.

Skydrive

http://www.faqforge.com/windows/map-skydrive-as-network-drive-in-windows-7/

Skydrive only offer 7GB for a new plan and only up to 200GB on a paid plan but with their new rebranding to Ondrive, I hear they will offer TB plans.

Box

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/02/27/how-to-use-your-box-account-as-a-network-dri ve/

I found that you need to use https://dav.box.com/dav/ instead for it to work. a new account start with 10GB free but if you sign in from their IOS app now, you get 50GB for free permanently. They have unlimited paid plans as well.

Copy

Copy is a new kid on the block and you get 15GB on joining. They have a referall program like dropbox, except that you could potentially get unlimited storage. They are also planning to allow you to map your account as a network drive, although we do not know when this will be.

If you want to join copy or say thank you, use my copy referral link below which would also give you 5GB bonus on joining. Thanks.

https://copy.com?r=uPMD9f

JungleDisk will do this. It mounts on your computer as an external HDD

https://www.jungledisk.com/

Make sure you choose Desktop Edition

EDIT:

Also, there is ExpanDrive software that supports variety of services such as Google Drive, DropBox, SFTP, FTP, Amazon S3, WebDav, Box and few others that can MOUNT the drive WITHOUT the need of downloading all the files to your local HDD.

Enjoy!

It seems to me that ONEDRIVE for Business accompishes what you desire.

It does not require syncing as the only means of storing a file on the cloud.

After a file is saved locally, one can upload it to ONEDRIVE and then delete the file locally.

Gents -- as of today (May 2014) I would be hesitant to recommend Bitcasa anymore. I have it for $99/year and love it absolutely, and I currently use about 4TB of my unlimited quota. The Mac client was very buggy for the first few months but it seems to have leveled out. I have not yet tried the Linux client as it's been in beta for a while, but I am glad that they at least have it. Bitcasa support is very responsive, and they continue to build out their API. I have read (although not tested) that I could theoretically use my virtual infinity drive with PLEX so I can stream my content from the cloud, rather than mirror to local storage for my PLEX entertainment.

However, all of that being said, in the last six months, Bitcasa has increased their annual unlimited cost from $99/year (amazing) to $999/year (holy s**t). I am fortunate since I have been grandfathered into the legacy pricing, but if I were now seeking out a cloud solution with unlimited storage, I may have to look elsewhere.

ExpanDrive is what I landed on - spent way to much time punching in different google searches to come up with the solution, but it's installed and working like a charm! Mounts my Dropbox and Google Drive accounts as an external hard drive right in finder. Only downside they are not searcheable by finder, but I can live with that. Looks like it is $39.95.

I have just started using ADrive.com. They have a free trial period. I LOVE IT. I tried a bunch of others, and they all stunk!. Drop box was the worst, somehow it lost a bunch of my files on my own harddrive! AVOID programs that want to sync you up all the time...you don't know what they are up to. I also tried Aamzon S3, but with my windows 7 pro computer I just got errors when I tied to upload more than one file, and the java folder uploader NEVER worked.

With Adrive I can upload folders easily, share them publicly with password protection, etc.

Been struggling with the exact same "quest" (at this point, it's a quest....).

2 winners are : Gladinet and ExpanDrive. Expandrive is more polished, but Gladinet did a better (and faster) job. Expandrive sometimes doesn't load folders, even though they exist.

Gladinet costs $7 a month, no commitment. Expandrive is $40 one time payment (still allows you to use it for 20mn periods after initial free period).

BUT right now, I'm thinking about going all in with the webapp version of Google Drive. 1To for $10 a month, and the webapp is pretty neat > drag and drop to upload folders, easy / fast navigation, and local syncing .... it actually does the job I'm looking for : cloud backup 200Gigs of pictures, no local copy, easy handling.

I'm using ExpanDrive with my DropBox. Works Great!

I've also setup selective syncing in Dropbox so I have a folder in my dropbox which does not sync with the dropbox app and is only available online through ExpanDrive or the DropBox website.