Cloud Storage Startup Also Lets You Run Your Own Server

TeamDrive will release the new Teamdrive 3 version with support for Android and iOS in a few days.

I downloaded and installed TeamDrive and to my surprise I got the activating email from Finnish company Protacon, which a) I have never heard about, b) did not know, that they are somehow connected to Teamdrive and c) seem to represent teamdrive in Finland, but offering free space only 1 G and 5 G !?!

Uninstalled without trying any further.

Now, why was it not said in Teamdrive's page, that you get forwarded to some other company's customer base and that this other company's offer is 50% less than the company I thought I was dealing with?

Iv got a Android that i can't boot up HELP PLease

From: http://windowssecrets.com/top-story/re-examining-dropbox-and-its-alterna...

Depending on your level of security comfort (or paranoia), you have four possible choices if you want to synchronize data in the cloud:

You can use Dropbox, realizing that the staff of Dropbox has the capability to read your data and send it to duly constituted authorities in some jurisdiction or another. If you understand the situation and it doesn’t bother you, more power to ya!

You can encrypt your data before Dropbox gets it. The people at Dropbox recommend TrueCrypt, which runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. In general, all you have to do is put a TrueCrypt-encrypted file inside your Dropbox folder and change one setting on the TrueCrypt file. Dropbox has a forum thread that describes the approach and some of its problems. Suffice it to say that most people find it works easily. The major downside? It doesn’t work on mobile devices, and file uploads and downloads might take longer.

You can use one of the integrated Dropbox third-party routines that perform encryption and decryption. At this moment, SecretSync and BoxCryptor are the best-known representatives of the genre. Both work with the Dropbox API and allow you to encrypt and decrypt the data with your own keys. Dropbox still encrypts the files (a second time), but should the occasion ever arise where Dropbox or some nefarious person uses the Dropbox key, the resulting file will still be scrambled — and you’re the only one with the key. Users report varying degrees of success with BoxCryptor on Mac OS X and Linux. SecretSync support for Mac and Linux is “coming soon.” There’s no mobile support for this technology, either.

Or, you can drop Dropbox altogether. SpiderOak offers similar services, free, without the centrally maintained encryption keys: you encrypt the data with your key — and only you have the key. Bad guys can steal everything in SpiderOak, and they still can’t crack your files. With SpiderOak, you create your password on your own computer — not through a Web form received by SpiderOak servers. According to a SpiderOak FAQ, “When you create a SpiderOak account, the setup process happens on your computer (after you download the application), and there your password is used in combination with a strong key derivation function to create your outer layer encryption keys. Your password is never stored as part of the data sent to SpiderOak servers.” In fact, SpiderOak’s support staff has no ability to reset your password — you are completely responsible for its safekeeping. SpiderOak works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux but not on mobile devices.

SpiderOak even offers an open license, which allows your company or organization to set up its own SpiderOak operation. The administrator can see each account’s name and contact information as well as the amount of data stored — and that’s it. There are no keys floating around and no way for admins to look at the data. SpiderOak calls it “zero-knowledge privacy.”

So whether the Dropbox privacy news elicits a yawn or seems dire (or at least sobering), you now know its limitations and you have alternatives.

Try the Open Source version of Drop Box. Supply you own FTP storage space.

http://ftpbox.org/

It is still in Beta. Hopefully I can eventually replace Drop Box with this.

Notes on its Security:
Use the SFTP protocol or select to use explicit or implicit TLS/SSL encryption (FTPS) to secure your file transfers.

DrobBox upload only "deltas" not the entire file.

Today I learned something.

A-Drive gives you 50 gig free

form Teamdrive FAQ (General):

*You should not use TeamDrive to synchronise databases. A database is usually stored in a file, which means that TeamDrive would have to transfer the entire file each time a data record was changed, which would lead to increased traffic and memory consumption on the server.*

Because of the info above I still prefer DropBox.
DrobBox upload only "deltas" not the entire file. Good security can be achieved with TrueCrypt cooperation.

Have a good day.

With the exception of the server option, SpiderOak is very similar and has clients for all OS's and Phones. Works very well and great customer support.

This is how you get up to 10GB. 250 meg per freind.

How does it work?
Simply forward your unique referral link and for every friend that signs up to TeamDrive through your link, you'll both get additional 250 MB free space! You will find a function to publish the link on Twiter or Facebook.

Site says 10 & 2 GB free, I'm asking them which it is but it sounds interesting because of the encryption, no Android client (yet?) of course, hopefully it will be better than DropBox's garbage app.