It’s getting near year end, so I had to start looking for a way to store data for our personal use, our media network and for the corporate clients we serve.
I had begun my search about two days ago and had been a little put off by some of the solutions out there.
Tonite I came home to find an email alerting me to the services provided by Data Deposit Box, so I thought I’d look into the matter a bit more deeply, while writing a sponsored post for them.
You probably feel that all online data storage solutions are about equal, as I did, so I wanted to find out why the solutions provided by Data Deposit Box are different.
What are the Top 10 reasons they should be your online data storage provider ?
1) They encrypt your data as it’s transferred AND when it’s stored. I read the terms of service for several other potential providers and they clearly did not do this. Personally, I want my data encrypted. I’ll feel safer. Safer makes my sleep sweeter.
They also use 448 bit encryption. I’d bet your bank only uses 128 bit, so how safe must this be ?
2) You don’t have to be an IT expert to use their service. They purposely made it so that everyday, common, simple folks can use their service and be successful in securing and retrieving their data.
3) You never have to wonder when you last backed up your data. You don’t have to set a reminder. You don’t need another calendar notation.
They have a continuous process that makes new backups as you change you files. How cool is that. No more drag-n-drop. No more wondering. No more worries.
No more data loss because you weren’t scheduled to do a backup for 2 more days when your hard drive crashes.
4) They keep multiple versions of each file. I wondered what would happen if a file got corrupted and during the continuous update process I corrupted my data, so I searched their FAQ’s and found that they keep multiple versions, so I can revert back to an earlier version if I want to. That’s the first time I’ve found a online data storage service that does that.
5) They only backup the changes to files, not the whole file every time there’s a change. Think about some of your larger files, say 500 MB to 1 GB. Do you want to wait for that puppy to backup every time theres a small change, or would you be happier to just have only the changes backed up ? Yeah, me too.
6) You’ll be okay if you lose your internet connection. Their software remembers where it was and restarts the next time you’re online, if you happen to lose your connection during a backup. How likely is that to be a factor ? For me and my connection, probably a dang good thing they do this.
7) Most errors are human errors. If you delete a file, it’ll be there waiting on you. They will never delete a file, just because it’s not on your PC anymore. Some online data storage solutions will do this to try and save space. Not Data Deposit Box. Never.
Instead, they have a Clean-Up Wizard that you can use to reconsile your files and find out what you can safely delete.
You don’t get charged extra for multiple PC’s or multiple users. With most services you get to backup a single PC or a a single user. At Data Deposit Box, you can do multiple PC’s, multiple users, multiple networks, whatever. It’s your space and you get to use it like you want to.
9) You can access your data from anywhere. Some online storage solutions only let you access your data from the unit that you used to upload it. That kind of defeats the purpose of a backup, doesn’t it ? So the good folks at Data Deposit Box made your data available to you from wherever you are, on whatever machine you’re on. You’d have thought this would have gone without saying, wouldn’t you ? Me too, but it doesn’t always work this way. Be careful who you trust your data to.
10) Last, but maybe the most important is price, value to the customer. Some online data storage providers make you buy more space than you need. If you think you’ll need 100 MB of space, you better buy 105 MB or 110 MB, so the backup won’t fail when you go over your limit.
At data Deposit Box, you pay for what you use and not one kb more. If you use one GB, you pay $2. If you use 1.1 GB, you pay only $2.20. Pay for what you use, not for what makes them the most money.
I’ve found the online data storage solution I need and I hope this review has helped open your eyes to the solution provided by Data Deposit Box. They sponsored this post and they hope to help you, just like they did me and my network. If you’d like to see all the reviews of their service, just click here.
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Mike, is this a ReviewMe or a PPP? I signed up for and did the ReviewMe and am “thrilled” with it.
Regards
buck
Review Me Played a role in the making of this post, but no animals were harmed and no shots were fired.
Hi, also take a peek at IBackup. IBackup’s applications allow you to safely and securely backup and store all your important files and folders online. With IBackup’s flagship application, IBackup for Windows, you can easily backup files and folders and restore them whenever you want. You can access the data backed up from anywhere with an Internet connection. The application’s interface has the similar look and feel to that of Windows explorer. You can backup all kinds of files, including open files, and also perform brick-level backups of individual mailboxes to your IBackup account.
Your files and folders are secure as all data transfer with IBackup has 128-bit SSL encryption on transmission. Besides immediate backups of selected files and folders, you can schedule backups and restores based on your needs. IBackup for Windows takes less bandwidth as it transfers only modified portions of your files to ensure a quick backup.
Also download and install IDrive that maps your online IBackup account as a local drive on your computer. You can then drag-and-drop, open, edit and save files stored in your online account, as if they are on your local computer. If you want to safely store your music and video collection and play them whenever you want, you don’t have to go elsewhere. Try IBackup Professional. The data files backed up using IBackup Professional are encrypted on transmission using 128-bit SSL and the backed up files are stored by default with AES 256-bit encryption. Encryption based on a user-defined key so that the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than you. To try all these features, you can sign up for a free trial.
Thanks for that info Levin.
It’s true. Not a whole lot of people spend enough time to backup and protect their data from potential disaster. I would also check out a data protection service called Tilana Reserve. Basically, all of your valuable and important information is protected – documents, spreadsheets, presentations, project plans, contact lists, music, videos, photos, etc. Any kind of file that you create or collect can be protected at all times.
Files are also automatically sync down into any computer configured to use the remote storage account. Now, your most recently edited file can be found on all of your computers.
Because Tilana Reserve™ is a CDP (Continuous Data Protection) solution, multiple versions of protected files are automatically written to your remote storage, not just the latest saved.
Check it out at http://www.tilana.com.
Thanks for the info Jimmy.
We appreciate you adding to our conversation.
You bet Mike.
Here are a few points left out of my last posting.
You can use the free desktop software on as many of your computers as you want and automatically protect files on them using the same storage space. And there’s a new browser interface that’s almost out of testing, which allows you to securely access your files from anywhere on the Internet.
The file sync functionality is optional, but you’ll use it more and more once you feel its power. You can configure any folder on one computer (or even the whole ‘My Documents\’ part your user tree) to sync its contents with any folder on another computer.
Even files deleted from the synced space on one machine will be automatically deleted on the other machine, while staying in the remote space to be archived for as long as you want.
Finally Tilana Reserve is among a rare few true CDP services, meaning that it’s truly continuous protection for your files. This is new – far and away superior to old fashioned “backup,” which may only copy the latest saved versions of your files as they’re found on a “scheduled backup interval” of maybe hours or daily… Even solutions that brag of tight “backup” intervals as short as minutes can’t stand up.
Because with Tilana Reserve file changes are transmitted immediately as they occur, you save a change to a file and Boom! That change alone is what’s transferred off and added to the version history of the file in remote storage, quickly and automatically.
Now, if you think about that in combination with the sync feature the lights will really start to come on about what’s possible for you between machines with this service.
Start work on something at the office and just leave it there. It’ll be where you left off with it when you get home, automatically transferred through your remote storage space to that home computer, where you can pick up where you left off. And it keeps working that way back and forth, so that when you get back to work the next day, the work done at home will just be there waiting for you to show off at work.
Best part? It’s FREE while still in beta. But press releases state that it’s nearly ready for retail launch so it won’t be free for long. I’m sure that it’s bound to stay cheap, though, considering the pricing that we can see for similar stuff that’s currently available out there.
You really should try it out. Works on XP (x32 SP2), and on Vista. Nice upgrade path to Vista BTW and files can still sync back and forth between different computers running either OS, which is handy if you think about how long it might take for software OEMs to catch up with Vista compatibility for their offerings…
http://www.tilana.com