Livedrive - comments?

[abhiroopb]

I just came across something called "Livedrive" http://www.livedrive.com/features.aspx.

It offers unlimited backup for 40 GBP a year. They also have some really useful features, one of which is FTP access.

I am an avid user of Dropbox, and I have 5gb of storage. However, I have 70gb of music that I would like to upload *somewhere* online so that I can stream it to my phone (my phone obviously does not have 70gb of space).

Unfortunately I haven't heard of this service before and would not want to pay so much money if its just a scam. So has anyone had any experience with it?

[gn2]

There's a few of these services springing up, Adrive (http://www.adrive.com/) is another, 50gb and free.

Wouldn't dream of using it as a sole backup though, but could be useful for anywhere access.

I have my own courtesy of my NSLU2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2) so won't be using a paid for web service.

[Johnsie]

I have a VPN. Works great for remote storage and you can do alot more. You can mount the drive, run cron jobs on it etc, even have a vpn intranet.

VPN's are dead easy to set up, but security needs to be good.

[abhiroopb]

I'm just looking for some ftp server somewhere which I can upload 70gb of files to! It doesn't need to be secure as its only music

[Johnsie]

Have you tried spotify?

http://spotify.com

It's like having a hard disk with a million songs on it :-)

[abhiroopb]

Have you tried spotify?

http://spotify.com

It's like having a hard disk with a million songs on it :-)

Of course! I've had it for a very long time, but doesn't work on mobile devices (yet!)

[Johnsie]

Give them time... Porting to mobile devices is one of their plans for this year. The problem is whether or not the phone companies will block it. I used to use ORB until my phone company started blocking that.