![]() Of course you could also run both □ If you want to get started with an extra GB (so, 3GiB), here is my referral link, but note that I’m not really getting any benefit from it since I’ve already reached the maximum of 10 referrals long before even starting writing this post… It would be more useful to me if you signed up for Dropbox, but after reading this I hope it’s not in your immediate plans ^^Īs usual, don’t hesitate to drop a comment in case you spot any inaccuracy or missing stuff, etc. That leaves you with just Wuala and SpiderOak, and at this point I see no reason not to choose the latter, except if you want more space without either referring a couple of friends or participating in their next contest/game. So, which one should you pick? If you value your privacy or have sensitive data (or both), Dropbox is definitely a no-go, unless you’re willing to first encrypt locally before sending to Dropbox (like, say, putting a TrueCrypt volume in your Dropbox folder? ^^). That leaves us with SpiderOak having the only “normal” clean installer. Last but not least, I just re-ran Dropbox’s installer: it doesn’t have a single option! (like, choosing where to install the program) As far as I remember, Wuala isn’t a lot better in that area, unavoidably dropping file in the system’s partition. Still, that doesn’t matter too much in my opinion, because when you’re on a computer where you can’t install the client, you shouldn’t be typing your password at all in the first place. It is to be noted, however, that if you have at some point the need to use the web client, Wuala wins then, because they load some heavy Java client, allowing you to still perform the decryption on your side, while it’s unclear what SpiderOak does (but they probably perform the decryption on their side when you’re on their web client). The formers have no access to your files, the latter does, period. Privacy-wise, obviously SpiderOak and Wuala are both winners, while Dropbox is simply rubbish. Still, I’m globally not too satisfied with the desktop clients of all those 3: SpiderOak and Wuala are somewhat complicated (which is probably due to their richness in features), Dropbox on the opposite is totally simplistic and lacking features. Actually, the feature to pick a file to back up can be seen as the equivalent to drag’n back up, only I believe drag’n back up to be more usable. SpiderOak, not in Java, comes very close though. Maybe the easiness to add more features was the reason behind their terrible choice of Java. And the difference can be fairly quickly (over-)compensated via promo upgrades.įeature-wise, I’d be tempted to say Wuala is the richest. ![]() Although this is true, this is still capped not too far from SpiderOak, is slower (500MiB instead of 1GiB per referral) and probably also much harder (do you know many people who haven’t already heard of Dropbox?). You could argue that Dropbox lets you accumulate more storage upgrade via referring. I’d say get it while it last, because I’m not sure such good offers will still be sustainable when they have 10x more customers. Space-wise, SpiderOak and Dropbox both provide nice ways to earn some free additional storage, but only at SpiderOak are the promo upgrades valid lifetime. the “space race” with prices valid for 2 yearsĮmployees can technically read your files YES, regular lifetime GiB giveways & contests Without further ado, now that I’ve used Wuala for 1 or 2 years and SpiderOak for more than half a year, maybe it’s time for, say, a comparison table □ I also included Dropbox, which I’ve used intermittently for an even longer time, so that maybe their fans will see the error of their way ^^ Comparison tableĥ00 MiB lifetime per referral, max 16 GiB And I don’t regret it, so, in a way, thank you Oracle for releasing Java 7 which broke Wuala (and thank you Wuala for taking massive time to fix it – is it even fixed yet, actually?). ![]() Well, it’s been a while now since I switched from Wuala to SpiderOak.
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