Kev, hope your house doesn't catch fire

Kev,

I have no idea whether or not this service is any good or not but having an off-site backup is a good idea. Multiple copies on local hard drives are not going to do you any good if you have a house fire and everything goes up in smoke.

Personally I use backblaze, $60 a year and it saved me back in 2018 when my house burnt to the ground.

Kev, I like to share data between computers at different locations. I like to access data on my iPhone and iPad. I like to feel safe from fire and floods (we live 5 metres below sea level). I like to have data and operating system and private hardware separated. I like to have my data after all my hardware has been stolen. I like to share data with principals, contractors, family and friends, but be in control of it. I like to have access to my data where ever I am.

Yes: I like cloud storage. You don't. It's a free world.

Tim, it's not free you pay a monthly fee, it's free here for you to try for a limited time

I also tried uploading a 131KB spreadsheet and it took 2 minutes to upload.

Nancy Hole, Same for me

Mike, I agree, this is a time-limited deal but doesn't say for how long and when it expires what happens to your stored files I think I will pass to

I had exactly the same problem. Upload can only accomodate ONE FILE AT A TIME!! Painfully slow, IT WOULD TAKE DAYS (at a minimum) to upload just the free 20GB. I too see another "Zoolz" fiasco in the making! No money from me until I see much, much better upload and download speeds.

Spontz, I see I am not the only person who suffered similar fate. Ridiculous that companies are allowed to do this.

Spontz, Thanks for the confirmation dear Spontz.
Zoolz, Adrive were also ones that I had tried too with these results.
I did not mention before and it's worth to be mentioned, that the only company who honored their free offer and kept it, is BOX.com with its 50gb free offer back from 2013. Still working...

Dragunov, JUST FOR YOUR TRANSULATION: "after creating an account, it is impossible to log in to it ..."

Hott Pro,
yes it is...
is polish
I give this service not more than a year, 20 Go is not so much, and looking how they all developt their altitude in face of customer, I not trust anymore, anyone...
I lost too much as apprentice in my proffesion...

Hott Pro, no prob using VPN

Derek, 20GB is not much, I have a Blue ray disks over 20GB each.

Derek, It's slow because it has to find other users willing to contribute some of their local stoarage and internet bandwidth to other users. Encryption of uploaded data in realtime is not a performance consideration, think about almost every web page and content used by the page is encrypted in real time every time your browser requests an https connected piece of content. It's slow because a thousand users could be trying to read/write to each users contributed storage and consumer broadband connections, even fibre to premesis are still very restricted compared to a server farm the likes that google drive or onedrive use. Not forgetting users stuck on dial-up or ADSL...

Prasad Madhushanka, Lifetime

Prasad Madhushanka, "time limited offer" means you can only get this 20 GB offer for a llimited time, but once you've got it, you'll have 20 GB for life. Well, as long as Internxt is around ... whichever is sooner.

Prasad Madhushanka, the time limit is the offer application is for the duration of the giveaway, they claim lifetime license on product... I'd interpret that to be the lifetime of the product not the users lifetime. Since if they cannot harvest any stats/data to resell and do not make an ongoing charge no one will pay for server and bandwidth so would not expect its lifetime to be that long compared to gdrive, 1drive or idrive which can ALL host 256bit AES encrypted 7zip archives whose keys only the creator knows and would be criminal for hosting companies to brute force or otherwise crack the keys to access the data.

TK, There are no servers involved - it's fractured data across hosted devices. You can 'donate' your own free storage space and get rewarded their digital tokens.
Uploading 7zip archives seems very limiting ....

Terry, or until the company goes under

terry, whaaat? They are using OTHER users hard drives for storage? That is insane and requires everyone to be online for you to get all of your data back!
It requires that no user upgrades their system or performs a clean install of windows. Security of ones data is not only preventing others from access to ones data but also ENSURING uninteruptable access by the authorised owner of the data which this distributed storage to not always on end user hosted servers simply cannot provide.
Uploading a 7zip encrypted archive to a single cloud storage provider that permits creating shared URL access means one can securely store, retrieve and transfer to others any time one is online. One can transfer encryption key to reciepinet of shared link via an end to end encrypted chat program. It is insane to entrust your data to other users when they might even stop subscribing to the product or stop using it because it's not all parts of stored data is always available for access!

TK, "That is insane and requires everyone to be online for you to get all of your data back!"
of course it doesn't. Its fractured data. Distributed across multiple devices. If you can't get it from location A, get a chunk from location B. It explains why its slower than getting it from one source, but its a lot more secure - your data isn't in one place, so you can't steal or view any data - you only have one shard. You really need to research it before that knee of yours jerks and knocks your hat off.

terry, that is still insane no matter how many redundant locations fragments are stored if none are available your data IS inaccessible it would have to include similar standard of data recreation when data chunks are simply not available like used in Audio CD's and *DSL interleving to enable recovering original data chunks even when multiple stored chunks are inaccessible. IF this offering actually does that then you should have said that rather than wrting about storing data chunks in multiple locations which is a completely obsolete missing data recovery solution. fracturing data into linear chunks is akin to 20th century RAID 1, add parity bits and locations one could emulate RAID 5 which is more efficient but there are demonstarable better mathematical solutions to completely recover data even when large chunks of the storage locations are unavailable or blocked by national internet bodies.

With the addition of Forward Error Correcting data to each discrete chunk of encrypted data block and that then interleved across MANY storage chunks with other FEC'd encrypted data blocks only recreatable bits would be lost once the accessible data is de-interleved and redistributed across hundreds of encrypted FEC'd data chunks
Entirely recreatable data with no need for discrete redundancy as long as never too many data fragments are stored in any one unreliable storage location.

Fractured data as a name says nothing about wasteful and ineffective redundant copy storage in a different also not always available location.
As YOU attempt to describe it, it's a badly engineered attempt at a solution for something that is not really a problem as you can easily encrypt content before putting it on to conventional cloud services and no one but you has access to the encrypted content EVER. And the service maintians multiple backups and redundant servers as part of the services service level offering.

Hopefully you overly dumbed it down and ended up with a factually inaccurate explanation, because the method described would have been obsolete in the year 2000 let alone 2021!

And being an adult I know better than to blindly believe vendors marketing claims but stopped short of reverse engineering their github source... As I said it's an incomplete solution to a problem that is easily solved using personal file encryption before storage on classic cloud servers. A true inovative solution would be to make the system completely independant of a gatekeeper company and server like this company runs and make it more like torrent DHT where no accounts are needed just give the system a magnet HASH and eventually you get back the corresponding torrent data if it's been placed on the DHT swarm. The fact the data would be strongly encrypted before being placed onto the FEC'd chunk and then interleved across multiple discrete packets... and given a unique SHA-256 and another strong hash to ensure no possible hash collisions and one just requests a hash pair encrypted file and the DHT based swarm returns the encrypted data... no need to restrict the encrypted data to any user account as the universe is not expected to last long enough to brute force crack the encrypted data.

I'd wager that it is possible that within the DHT and magent torrent link specifications it is possible to build an anonymous encrypted file storage system that flies under the radar and none of the torrent users even know they are participating in the storage and redistribution of... and as long as the DHT networks remain in use would continue to function transparently.
It could currently exist for all we know!

Is there any need for it today? Only for storing and comunicating very illegal data... Now if onedrive or google drive prohibited storing encrypted data on their servers it would become useful for the storage of non-illegal private files. But right now onedrive and google drive are just fine for storing encrypted private files without fear of them being taken down because the service owners and their NSA/five eyes overlords cannot access your encrypted data.

TK, "Hopefully you overly dumbed it down and ended up with a factually inaccurate explanation"
No, but I think your understanding is flawed.

McTerry Terry of Terryville, you'd have to be more specific where you feel my understanding is flawed because as you explain it the procedure is flawed and will result in an inability to retrieve a given file if any single storage unit is not accessible because all the redundant storage locations are unavailable due to other end users technical issues like being offline or upgrading to a new computer without being able to migrate donated storage cache to new hardware or simply uninstalling the product and no longer honour the donation of storage space or access to previously stored data storage units.

Allan F, I also have the same problem.

Allan F,

Same too. but waits about 10 minutes later, It becomes 20GB.

ArkSKnow, Thanks for your reply, but it still says 10GB.

ArkSKnow, i've waited for an hour, still 10GB

Allan F, you are lucky i'm using 0 gig out of 0 gig lmao

update I installed their windows app (found by clicking download in the drop down menu) the app once logged in states 900 kb out of 20 gb used ;) the web app is slow I guess.

Allan F, sO why does it only say 10 gb.... THE SAME THING happened to me... so were we duped into thinking 20gb and only got 10 gb or is there something you are going to fix?

Agree with what you say, but bear in mind there are no 'servers' involved here, and instead, they use spare hard-drive space from 'sponsors', or normal people's PCs.

terry, who maintains the repository of indexes to end users and end users willing to donate their connections and who's data fragments are stored where and authorise the inital logins... Surely there must be at least servers one logs into and provides some kind of index of other users on the swarm... those servers and sensible redundant backup/load sharing servers to administer the login and other admin data collating and disemination has to be paid for on an ongoing basis.

rabindra, I noticed this when I tried to register a second user. When I switched my VPN to a different country, I could proceed.

krypteller, that is a common error, just retry to solve it, no need to change IP. I've register 3 users from the same ip adress from NordVPN.

Deke, Are you using a VPN? What country are you based in?

So, [ krypteller ], you pay DropBox just over €100 a year for how much storage?

Thanks.

Peter Blaise, 2TB

krypteller, that seems unfair that multiple family members sharing a single public IP number are restricted to a single account that only one member of the family may use unless they contrive to cheat the restriction using VPN's or other methods to obtain multiple public IP numbers e.g. tethered 3G/4G/5G mobile data connections...