MEGA cloud storage now has a linux sync client

[Paulgirardin]

MEGA offer 50Gb free.The new sync client looks nice too.

https://mega.co.nz/#sync

[sffvba[e0rt]

Nice. Patiently awaiting there much hyped e-mail and chat clients but I suspect that will still take a lot of time (especially to reach linux).

[Bucky Ball]

I like it and I like their ethos. Never used a cloud before, now could be the time.

Just curious, though. What are DL/UL speeds?

[Jonor]

Free account, UK location here, averaging two tests, a 4mb mp3, UL around 80kb/s - about 100 seconds, DL was faster, about 30 seconds.

[Bucky Ball]

I created an account and tried it myself, actually, Downloads were definitely faster than uploads. Bareable. I don't think I'd use it often, though, and will probably stick to the external drive for most backups. eSATA with a 7200rpm HDD as fast as an internal drive. Maybe I'm too used to that.

[bapoumba]

No joy with lubuntu 14.10 here..

[sffvba[e0rt]

Working like a charm in Ubuntu Gnome 14.10...

[ibjsb4]

No joy with lubuntu 14.10 here..

Same here on a lxde/gnome mix (14o4), but gdebi did.

sudo gdebi megasync-xUbuntu_14.04_amd64.deb

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

id use this but i have owncloud setup already on my rPi, i don't have 50gb available on my 16gb sd card, but i am not using that much

[Tar_Ni]

Mega is a great cloud service. Probably the most privacy-oriented cloud out there. And geez 50GB of storage for free, that makes the Dropbox(2GB) and even Google Drive (15GB) look bad.