Bitcasa Drive

A new take on cloud storage with strong pricing, but it’s undermined by a poor spread of features

PRICE 5GB, free; 1TB, $10/mth or $99/yr; 10TB, $99/mth or $999/yr from bitcasa.com/personal Bitcasa Drive does things differently to other cloudstorage services; instead of syncing folders between PCs and online with a folder in the cloud, all files are broken down into chunks and encrypted before they’re uploaded and stored on a Bitcasa “hard drive” in the cloud. From there you can access them from any system via an app, a browser or a desktop client. When you need them, files are streamed from the online drive and cached, making it faster to get hold of them next time. This makes Bitcasa more effective for those moving between a conventional desktop or laptop and a tablet with limited storage. You can’t sync files as such, but you can mirror files from one linked…

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