Al, we truly apologize for that. Currently, Zoolz is only supported on Windows and MAC machines. Hopefully, it will be supported on Linux OS in the future updates.

Sorin, please note that you have signed up for the trial account. Please use the following link to sign up for the 100 GB account

http://cloud2.zoolz.com/giveaway

Hello Mothman, please note that we don't have access to your files. The files are protected by a 256-AES (military level encryption).

If you wish, you may also contact our Sales department via sales@zoolz.com and they will be able to provide you with better assistance regarding the prices.

Regards,

Mothman,

Actually you need a few of those hard drives so data could be stored redundantly, need to monitor them, run them in a temp & humidity controlled environ that's also physically secured with redundant power. If you use 1TB drives, the cheapest I've ever seen them new is ~$40 [smaller drives aren't much cheaper], so roughly $120 just to get started, vs. free with the GOTD Zoolz offer.

A better DIY approach would be burn that data to DVDs stored off-site, in case of break in, flood, fire etc.

Mothman, Yes, but when you are on your phone, and not in your house that 6Tb drive gets very heavy! :-)

Mothman, while external drive storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, the drives will be just as useless as when they were expensive if your place burns down or the drives are stolen.

You do keep them in a fireproof safe or off site, right?

Mothman, That link shows 2TB of storage space expandable to 6TB...

DD, ................... yes, I do......... save to nas and then off-site hd

with cheap extHd, using cloud just not .............uhhh....... uhhh..... just don't do it

Martin Lerner, please contact our support team via support@zoolz.com so we may help you

Hello JAN NIEUWOUDT, could you please contact our Support team via support@zoolz.com so we may help you?

MikeR; Oops. Meant to add: an offer is currently available of a lifetime license of 1.5Tb Fridge (hot) + 1.5 Tb Freezer (cold) for a one-off payment of $75, a saving of several $1000s on a recurring license. Anyone interested should go here (the offer has 4 more days to run):

https://deals.wccftech.com/checkout

MikeR,
Hi, excellent Review, as always, and clarification which Cloud Storage is on Offer today - using plain language everyone can understand! No wonder User Mr Obvious in one of his earlier Comments suggested Google Photos for Storage of images (alone).. After reading Your Comment it's obvious why!:) Freezer will not allow easy shipment and access to one's photos there, and I wouldn't be wrong to point out that for every-day user that's normally nr 1 priority and permanent headache these days..Images produced in unbelievable numbers, taking up most space on 'hard' storage of all kinds. Thanks again.

MikeR, Great explanation and review as always..gonna pass on this as I want a fridge account, not freezer (get enough cold air here in the winter).
I think I will just stick with my stove storage for now (external harddrive)

MikeR,

>"Today's provider at least has a fairly well-established reputation and a longevity that indicates it won't evaporate any time soon"

I don't have any worries that Zoolz will close down either, but that is also what I thought when I bought into SkyHub online storage. Everything looked fine on the surface, then poof!

When we first heard that online sales would soon surpass store sales, did we think that meant large chains such as Sears or Montgomery Wards would be so drastically affected? Who could have predicted Compaq would be bought? And we certainly did not expect computer enterprises such as CompUSA would be taken over by TigerDirect, only then to also essentially close down shop. After a considerable time of no online presence, TigerDirect services enterprise level businesses only now.

Remote storage has become very competitive. Free e-mail accounts initially had minimal storage until Google came along and offered 10 times as much. Cloud storage is the next big gamble we take as we get more and more comfortable with it.

Competition changes things. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Jay, the data is never deleted in the cloud, once you sent it, belongs there forever. Think twice before you send your documents, pictures, spreadsheets and all of the personal info, because all of the so called security agencies from around the globe can access and decrypt any data in any cloud configuration.
When they say the data will be deleted, they mean to say, we will stop the access to your data, nothing else.

Hello Ivanovich, please note that our policy states that if you don't use your free account for more than 60 days, it will be marked for deletion. When we delete your account, we remove all of your files from our servers. By that, we will no longer possess your files on any of our servers.

Regards,

Thomas Parker, Surely if you put something into cold storage, and even more into frozen storage, you do not intend to use it for some time. Nor are you likely to use this facility frequently. But if you do not use the account for 60 days everything you put in is lost and you are permanently shut out. You do not need to wait for the company to evaporate before all your storage is lost, it seems.
So even those who trust a cloud are in most cases wasting their time, worse, wasting all the trouble in producing that which they are storing! They do not even return your files to put in elsewhere!

Thomas Parker, do you really think I'm going to park my files in the clouds? I do not even think about it!

Hello Mark Davies, thank you for reaching out. Please check the following link to get the 1 TB offer :

https://home.zoolz.co.uk/3tb-lifetime-ho/

Hi Thomas Parker,

I thought it was $19 for 1TB?

The link you sent offers 1TB for $39

Thanks
Mark

Liviu, although you can add a vault (aka 'live file access') for approx. 15 GBP a year for 50 GB (which increases your storage to 150 GB)

Liviu, restoring data from Cold Storage needs some time. However, Cold Storage has other advantages that you can learn more about by referring to this article: http://wiki.zoolz.com/what-is-cold-storage/

Honoriu Crisan, See earlier comments. Simply use the link https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Giveaway

Honoriu, please contact the support at the email address support@zoolz.com.

It should show you the whole 100 GB, there is a possibility you are logged on to a different account. Please provide the support with your account email address.

Ryan Brown, you said: "there is a possibility you are logged on to a different account", how is that possible, unless your log in system is compromised by a virus or a hacker that diverts the log in to some other server or unsecured server. Furthermore, is someone can log on in a different account with the the same user and password, the confidence is gone to use that cloud storage, because a reverse log in can happen by someone else with same user ID or password.

Mr Obvious, Why is the link not secure?
I enter my name, email address and password not securely. (It's not https!)

Should we trust this?!

Lorgen Shadouness, It is secure, but you have to go to the link directly - paste the link in your browser. If you just click the link, then yes, you'll get the GOTD wrapper around it...

New Account Being Reported As 14-Day Trial 50, (great name, by the way)
Did you sign up via this link (https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Giveaway) or via the program?
Try signing up via the link, but prefix your email with +1, so instead of fred@hotmail.com, use fred+1@hotmail.com.

Based on another suggestion, I went though the GOTD page link to https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Giveaway and re-created the account there - it's now 100GB and lifetime - That's the link that needs to be followed, not the regular download procedure. Oy.

I initially signed up via the normal GOTD download process, then went back and followed the other link after reading another suggestion - the link you pointed to works, the normal GOTD download doesn't.

New Account Being Reported As 14-Day Trial 50, please contact the support team (support@zoolz.com) providing the email address you used to sign up. They will gladly assist you.

Bruce Baxter, how do I get the additional 1TB lifetime storage for $19 - do you have a link?

Mark Davies, it was a special I took up a while ago

Andy, No, 100 GB of cold, cold, cold storage. No 'vault' storage is provided, but can be added for 15 GBP for 50 GB. You can move files from that 50 GB to your 100 GB cold storage, so you'll have 150 GB in total.

Andy, Are you sure that you used the link in the "readme.txt" file you received from Giveaway of the Day to sign up?

Please open that link again, and sign up using an email address you have never used for any Zoolz account before. This should work and give you the 100 GB Free account.

Mr Obvious, kindly note that even if you add Vault to your Zoolz account, you cannot move data from Cold Storage to the Vault and vice versa.

Aqeel, So when you log into your Zoolz account (https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Dashboard) how much space is shown in the 'Cold Storage' in the top right box?

Aqeel, it seems that you've signed-up from a different link or you account was not synced properly, please contact the support at the email address support@zoolz.com

Mr Obvious, Cold Storage 50GB, which expires on 9/20/2018

Jamies, "And - This is a Giveaway OF THE DAY - so if you need to get a new system, then to get at the data in the cloud will require you to pay for the product."

That's not how this works at all. The giveaway today is reduced pricing. Your account won't blow up just because you've a new PC. Your account on Zoolz is safe. You can download the client software from Zoolz at any time.

Also, you're mistaken on the "50 'live' and 50 'Cold' " - its just 100 GB (just?!) of 'cold' storage. You don't have direct access to the files, but need the Zoolz client software.
For 15 GBP a year, you can add 50 GB of 'live' storage, which allows direct access to your files. You can move files to / from the 100 GB 'cold' storage from your 50 GB 'live' storage, giving you 150 GB in total.

Its not as bad as you make out in your unfair 'review'.

Jamies, also, Mega.nz gives 50GB for free per email address. You do need to log in periodically, but that's fine with me.

Jamies,

Kindly note that this offer will give you 100 GB of Cold Storage (http://wiki.zoolz.com/what-is-cold-storage/). No Instant Storage in this offer at all.

Zoolz does not limit the upload speed at all. So, the backup speed depends on the upload speed of your Internet connection.

Zoolz is a backup solution, so it is very important to keep everything saved for you. That is why nothing will be automatically deleted from your Zoolz backup, even if you delete the original data from your drives locally. This is the main purpose of having a backup.

Kindly note that you will be able to use Zoolz when you get a new system to get at the data in the Cloud, without buying anything new. (http://wiki.zoolz.com/how-can-i-restore-all-my-files-from-zoolz-on-a-new-machine/)

If you have any further concerns, please feel free to contact Zoolz support team at support@zoolz.com

Robin Scott, "No Instant Storage in this offer at all."

Technically correct, but you can cheaply add instant storage - 15 GBP for 50 GB seems 'reasonable'...

Mr Obvious,
Thanks for the update & correction to my understanding of the offered facility.
I did, think that the Giveaway of the day - was a free offer rather than a reduced price option, and that storage would be associated with a PC in the same mode of many of the giveawayoftheday offers, rather than with a reduced cost "account".
And I do accept that I did not realise that paying for the account does get the user a lifetime use of 50GB of 'live' storage, while the giveawayoftheday was for 100GB of 'Cold' storage.

Not sure that the commentary I posted was unfair, but, from the corrections in your reply it seems that Zool have addressed some of the problems I have seen with free cloud storage products.

OK - the paid-for account option means the facility does not suffer from the tied to the PC problem as much of the free downloads do.

And OK - I'll accept that I was wrong in stating that the free giveawayoftheday provided 50GB of 'live' storage, from your response, it seems that it does not provide that 50GB as 'live' storage.

Please note the summary line at the end of my comment - is that really unfair ?

" So - a nice offer, thanks, but just not something useful for me!"

Miss Pita,
Thanks for the advisory - 50GB per email is nice.
Having to 'login periodically is OK - providing the period is not too short, and you get a warning of impending loss of the data or facility.
Currently I have - 5 active id's - for various facilities - personal-private, personal- widely used, general , business etc. so that would give me 250GB -
But I have a large amount of 'live' cloud store via other facilities I use. so, while others may find the Mega.nz facility useful, I don't need it.

Robin Scott,
(Assuming you are represent Zool.)
Thanks for the links and clarification, mostly reinforcing my posted considerations.
with the added (different to some of my experiences with other cloud storage suppliers) that -
Zool allows access to the stored data from another PC without having to pay.

nomadss1, Don't know what else to do it simply will not let me register at all.

nomadss1, Sign up with your email address, but append +1 to your name, so if your email is nomadss1@hotmail.com, use nomadss1+1@hotmail.com - it should still send the registration to your 'real' email address.

Change the password field to a memorable password.

Alternatively, click the 'forgot my password' link, and it should email you a new link.

nomadss1, If you are still facing any issues signing-up, please contact the support at the email address support@zoolz.com

Andy, when you store files on Zool's cold storage it takes a few hours to download a file back to your PC
Vault storage is an instant download a file back to your PC

Andy, you can view this and 1000001 other handy articles on their website.

http://wiki.zoolz.com/what-is-the-difference-between-instant-storage-and-cold-storage/

Andy, You can read more about the Cold Storage in this article:

http://wiki.zoolz.com/what-is-cold-storage/

You can also read more about the Instant Vault in this article:

http://wiki.zoolz.com/instant-vault/

However, this offer here comes with only Cold Storage. No Instant Vault.

Hellbeck, it comes with 100 GB. If you go to their website and sign up for a trial, you get 50 GB. Todays giveaway is for 100 GB.

Mr Obvious, I did install it from the download on giveaway of the day, not from the zoolz site and I still got 50GB and a 14 day trial.

Hellbeck, So when you log into your Zoolz account (https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Dashboard) how much space is shown in the 'Cold Storage' in the top right box?

Mr Obvious, 0 bytes
Used out of 50GB
14 Days Left
Trial expires on 9/20/2018
What did I do. 1. Downloaded the app thing from giveaway. Installed it. Made the account while installing. Said 50 so I
Logged into the account I made on the website. It has 14 day trial and 50Gb.
So I did somethig wrong????

Joe, Did you sign up via the link (https://cloud2.zoolz.com/Giveaway) or via the program?
Try via the above link, but prefix your email with +1, so instead of jim@hotmail.com, use jim+1@hotmail.com.

Joe, I redid this without using the downloaded app. Just went to website from the link on giveaway site and made an account. Its 100Gb and not trial.

Joe, Yay! Excellent. \o/

Mr Obvious, After logging in it is showing 0 bytes used out of 50GB and the account status is showing 14 days left.

Hellbeck, please contact the support team (support@zoolz.com), providing the email address you used to sign up. They will gladly assist you.

Hellbeck, Resign up as Joe did above.

Thomas Street, "Please note, you need to create the new account to take advantage of the offer!"

Did you create an account?

Thomas Street, please contact the support team (support@zoolz.com), providing the email address you used to sign up. They will gladly assist you.

MO, I would suggest using Google Photos for photo backup - not only is storage free, but their search is fantastic, plus, you can access photos from a mobile (assuming you have an Android phone ... but you can still get Google Photos on an Apple device...)

Mr Obvious,

"I would suggest using Google Photos for photo backup..."

Folks might also want to check out what Microsoft, Amazon, & Dropbox have to offer, free and paid. The 3 are extremely competitive in the cloud, with Amazon being 1st in terms of sales, & thus number of customers & size, Microsoft 2nd, and Google 3rd.