– They told me that the price is 69$ for beta users forever – till they changed the prices – First it was a very good service – low price, no worry about storage space and very good transfer speeds Replyĭo not trust this cloud storage! I used it from beta start for 69$ till they upgraded to their new price plans. I lost files (some my own fault for not keeping backups) through their service.īetween the corrupted files (bad uploading procedures from Bitcasa’s client), poor client performance, and unreliable customer support, I cannot recommend enough to stay away. Mirroring large datasets should not be the problem since other programs are capable of mirroring larger numbers of files well (Google drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, all do better since I use them as well). Their instructions were to uninstall, reinstall, switch accounts to start over, and lastly mirror less data, but this doesn’t address my problem. I asked support for help and they tried to tell me I was mirroring too many pictures (5,000 picture files). The client just doesn’t reliably transmit files and sometimes will crash.įurther, the program uses over 8GB (yes, over 8,192 MB) of RAM after fully loading. After using for a year (and having gone through the forced migration from November 2014), I found many of my files were corrupted and couldn’t be downloaded. That tops Dropbox (, ), SkyDrive (, ) and Google Drive (, ) by a couple of gigabyte.Īgain it is only MEGA (, ) that offers more: there you’ll get 50 GB for free, however MEGA does not come with a software client, yet.īitcasa is not a reliable service and I would extremely recommend against using it. Also, free users will get a generous 10GB of storage space for their files as well. They will have to handle an impressive amount of files as people will make use of their infinite storage offering.īitcasa is yet the first provider to offer unlimited storage and file synchronization both in one service at a very low price of only. So they have some money to spend, especially when it comes to data infrastructure. Of course, Bitcasa is venture-backed with 7M$ series A funding from Horizons Ventures et al. That is an impressive number, only rivaled by MEGA (, ) which claim to have had 250,000 sign ups just in the first hour of launching the service. About Bitcasaīitcasa was launched back in September 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt, a leading conference for start-ups and entrepreneurs, and it gained a lot of traction with over one hundred thousands beta subscribers by day one. This should be kept in mind reading this Bitcasa review. Different operating systems and configurations might work in weird ways, causing all sorts of trouble. In our tests it worked well, without any major hiccups, this is, however, just one test. Use Bitcasa for fun, even for your important files, but DO NOT rely on it. Never go without a secondary backup – that’s what we preach all over, and we can’t stress the importance enough. They are making a huge leap forward into the right direction but we think it is still a bit too early to trust technology that much as to give all your data into one single company. It is Bitcasa’s mission to make your hard drive oblivious, but honestly, we’re not there yet. Just install the software client and it will appear as a secondary hard drive in your system and you could almost forget that it is actually not a physical one.
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