 | | 20 gigs Actually they move you up to the 20 gig storage plan for "free" for a full year. After the year is done if you want to renew you have to pay the 20$ for another year or not be able to add new stuff to your drive until you trim out content lowering you to under 5 gigs.
The cheapest it can be had is 69 cents: »www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SK···sr=1-204
69 cents for 20 gigs of backup storage works for me which is what I did. | |
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1 edit | Re: 20 gigs They have a long long way to go to catchup to Dropbox. Amazon isn't even close.
Dropbox...
- clients for on most every major smartphone/tablet (BB/iPhone/Android) and OS (Windows/Mac/Linux)
- works via web for other that don't have clients
- can mix/match sharing between all platforms
- can restore previous versions of files or accidentally deleted files
- can publicly or privately share files
- supports truecrypt (open source encryption) since it does block level syncing
- Only 2GB free to start with but you get free 250MB extra for every referral
Unlike Amazon, you can also signup anonymously...
Download Dropbox | |
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| |  sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1 | Re: 20 gigs Amazon has S3 for that. Cloud Drive is aimed at people wanting to store media, not backup. | |
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join:2004-02-02
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kudos:3 | Dropbox also sells MP3s? | |
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|  KoilPremium
join:2002-09-10
Irmo, SC | No mention of the 20Gb upgrade (whatever you wanna call it) on the front page....Think I am gonna check this out.
Anyone know what the interface is like...if its all just through the web (point and click) it'll be kinda crappy to manipulate a lot of files.
I'd also be curious if there is any compression going on with video or pictures.
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| | | Done and done. 5gb is now 20gb for $.69 + tax. | |
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| KoilPremium
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1 edit | said by iwinrar:Actually they move you up to the 20 gig storage plan for "free" for a full year. After the year is done if you want to renew you have to pay the 20$ for another year or not be able to add new stuff to your drive until you trim out content lowering you to under 5 gigs.
The cheapest it can be had is 69 cents: »www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SK···sr=1-204
69 cents for 20 gigs of backup storage works for me which is what I did.
I bought the song, but down in the bottom left it still shows I'm using X of 5GB....was I supposed to do something else to get to the 20GB limit?
:EDIT: So the promo...could take a bit for it to reflect.
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| | KoilPremium
join:2002-09-10
Irmo, SC | Re: 20 gigs Still only show 5GB of space...many hours later. Wonder if they're just back logged. | |
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| | | | Re: 20 gigs If the free albums do work that means I wasted 69 cents, oh well :P
The reason I picked that song as it was the first cheapest song I clicked on. I have no interest in Glee nor have I have heard the song and still have not even though I bought it lol. | |
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join:2001-08-30
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kudos:1 | Re: 20 gigs I tried and while the free albums are considered orders, they don't count as album purchases. | |
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| KoilPremium
join:2002-09-10
Irmo, SC | Just so everyone is aware...despite the age of this post, thought I would let ppl know, that in order to qualify for the 20GB space, you have to buy an ALBUM...not just 1 mp3. You also have to buy it as an album, and not seperate tracks. Just an FYI...
Now I'm off to listen to my sweet Glee mp3...
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Sharon, WI | Additional streaming licenses? Why would they need additional streaming licenses? Its not like they're operating an internet radio station. Its just playing your already paid for music. | |
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|  birdfeedrPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI
kudos:5 | Re: Additional streaming licenses? said by Stewy85:Why would they need additional streaming licenses? Its not like they're operating an internet radio station. Its just playing your already paid for music.
Never let common sense interfere with an opportunity for more revenue. | |
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00000 | Streaming licenses? Bah It's difficult to believe that record labels can argue that companies like Amazon have to secure a different type of license for media that users purchase. The model that users must pay for every digital version (on each device) is and has always been ridiculous. I hope this drive moves us toward a realistic digital media model, not one driven only by record company greed. | |
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join:2004-01-26
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kudos:2 | Re: Streaming licenses? Bah This situation and argument are akin to the remote DVR that cable companies are fighting over. Recorded/Purchased content is stored remotely and available to the licensee (assuming content legitimately obtained) for use as normal. I don't see this being much of an issue since "cloud" storage available to only me is no different than the external hard drive sitting next to my computer available only to me. | |
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| | US Only Alas, it's only available in the USA:
"Please note that AmazonMP3.com is currently only available to US customers."
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|  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
USA
kudos:4 | Re: US Only & only Android devices said by hurleyp:Alas, it's only available in the USA:
"Please note that AmazonMP3.com is currently only available to US customers."
Also, other than mac's and pc's, to play back the stored music, other mobile devices must support flash player. So all the iPhone & iPad users are out of luck, for now anyway.
p.s.>> the uploading pgm provided by Amazon did however handle iTunes stored music in the MP4 format and I believe converted them to mp3 while uploading. So I was able to easily upload all my iTunes music library to Amazon. It was however very slow doing the conversion & upload.
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| | | | Re: US Only & only Android devices When I first used their service some time mid day yesterday it was fairly fast uploading and such, it got much slower by night fall.
Went from ~ 30 minutes or less for the set of files i had to about 3 hours + for the same size of selected files and 1 failed but I think my modem was reseting at the time. | |
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| | | | It's not likely that Apple will ever let amazon release the app for idevices and probably would have liked to block them from releasing it for mac computers. Amazons mp3 store is the largest and most direct competitor to their itunes ecosystem. i-device users if they had the amazon cloud stream feature would no longer need to use the worst part of the i-device ecosystem and that's the forced tie in with apples music player. All their songs would be lifted out of itunes and listenable on any device they buy (android etc..) and it would become more convenient to buy from amazon's mp3 store at that point. Strangely enough I wouldn't be surprised if amazon releases something via cydia since we know they were willing to push out the amazon appstore through android side-load.
Make no mistake this shot, while crossing googles bow, is poised to do much more damage to apple. | |
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| said by Romney2012:Also, other than mac's and pc's, to play back the stored music, other mobile devices must support flash player.
Not necessarily. My Android phone uses an ARMv6, so it doesn't have a copy of Flash made for it (yet). However, I'm able to install & run the Amazon MP3 app just fine from the Marketplace.
Flash is only a prerequisite for the mobile web streaming player. | |
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|  spewakR.I.P DadkinsPremium
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| Re: US Only said by hurleyp:Alas, it's only available in the USA:
"Please note that AmazonMP3.com is currently only available to US customers."
Move to where the food is hurleyp! 
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|  David_La vida es bella
join:2001-01-28
chile | Working excellent in Chile , just use a free vpn service and you´re all set.
With a vpn service I stream hulu, pandora, and now amazon cloud drive without any stupid geo lock crap  | |
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|  KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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| Make sure you read their TOS though.. Before you stick any personal files up there, make sure you're okay with this...:
5.2 Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law”
»www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/no···rive/882 | |
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| | | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. Don't use it for illegal stuff or encrypt it and you're golden pony boy.
69 cents to back up your pictures and whatever memories you do not care to lose for a full year seems like a fairly good deal to me. | |
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New Orleans, LA | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. said by iwinrar:Don't use it for illegal stuff or encrypt it and you're golden pony boy.
69 cents to back up your pictures and whatever memories you do not care to lose for a full year seems like a fairly good deal to me.
Yet that is not the question he is asking
If someone uses drugs in their home and the cops illegally raid it, you would say "Well, don't use drugs and you are golden". Yet, the case would get thrown out b/c the ACTUAL issue is whether the cops had a RIGHT to go in to start with (which in this situation is no)
Amazon being given the right to comb through my files freely has little to no interest for me and I d/l stuff legally. Yet, I am still offended by it. I don't trust any major company with all of my files just yet. No reason has been given to do so. | |
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| | | | | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. Hate to break it to you bud, he did not ask a question.
Yea I can see the huge deal of them seeing pictures of the kids. | |
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join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. said by iwinrar:Hate to break it to you bud, he did not ask a question.
Did not ask a question? Did my point really fly that far over your head? | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. I guess because no where in state's post was there a question. | |
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New Orleans, LA | Re: Make sure you read their TOS though.. said by iwinrar:I guess because no where in state's post was there a question.
Whooosh. Right over | |
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|  cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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kudos:5 | And that differs from any similar online file locker or backup solution how? | |
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| ThalerPremium
join:2004-02-02
Los Angeles, CA
kudos:3 | And you somehow don't think that other cloud service providers wouldn't cave in to a DoJ request/warrant?
Plus, do you really think the courts are going to give a crap if you listen to Bieber? | |
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You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files.
We may also restrict your access to the Service if we determine that your use of the Service violates this Agreement or substantially exceeds normal use by other users | |
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| | | Re: Privacy said by Pointer :The Terms of Service are ominous:
You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files.
We may also restrict your access to the Service if we determine that your use of the Service violates this Agreement or substantially exceeds normal use by other users
What about encryption do you folks not understand?
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permission to decrypt with right to access.
And of you think they can't you are naive too. | |
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| | who's paying for it? where did all these mega corporations get all this $$$$ to build these mega SANS?? are they in league with the banks that got all the bailout $$$? if so then, these storage clouds are taxpayer owned and shouldn't have prying eyes looking at those files you wish to store.... | |
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| | | Re: who's paying for it? Okay I must say this is a bit silly, amazon had a net income last year of over a billion dollars. Amazon makes money on its other cloud service. Amazon makes money for the worlds best selling ereader, amazon makes money for every sale, amazon makes money for most prime accounts, everytime someone wishes to put their ebook on amazon they are charged a fee for doing so. Every time someone buys a book amazon is making a bit of money.
Hard drive space is fairly cheap. 2TB hard drives can be had for about 100$.
So lets say they designate ~ 2 of these drives one for use and one for backup. That means for 200$ amazon can host 46 people.
People will be paying for this service, for everyone on a 2TB drive that is $920 to be had, 920/200, so with every 46 people they can now get the hard drive space to host 4 and a half more people.
A lot of people will be fine with the 5 gigs which as long as some people use their service they will end up coming ahead.
Of course this does not include the piece of servers and such but in the end people will use their service and either way they come out ahead. The hardware being used can always be designated elsewhere if the service flops which I doubt as people now have an easy way to listen to their music and likely even read their ebooks on future ereaders with out filling up their space.
So even if it does flop I am sure they have use for the servers so they are not out of money to begin with. | |
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| | sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Re: who's paying for it? And they're probably getting their drive space even cheaper than that anyway. I think that Cloud Drive is probably sharing space with S3. They probably saw they had unsold S3 capacity and decided to portion it off and market it as a different product to a different demographic, to gain new customers that might have never purchased S3.
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| | | | | Re: who's paying for it? Very likely they are getting them at cost as they do sell hard drives to begin with. I decided not to include that price as I do not know it.
And it is very likely that it is all hosted, shared in the same amazon data center. If they need more space they just get more server racks and bigger hard drives when they are needed.
Even if the service fails they will still be in the green with the success of everything else they offer including the continued success of the kindle. | |
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Irmo, SC | From the Amazon home page... | |
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Irmo, SC | Re: From the Amazon home page... I don't plan on putting anything up there that would be of value for them to use or ivestigate, so this sounds pretty sweet to me. Finally have a place to put my photo's. I was thinking of going with Smugmug...and still might, but I will check this out, too.
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| | Cheaper than S3 Interesting pricing strategy. It's cheaper than Amazon's own S3 (Simple Storage) pricing if you stay under 500TB. | |
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| | mp3.com wannabe isn't it the same?
MP3.com got sued becuase of this model. Maybe it was the duplication of files... but Amazon really wont do this? I mean how many times is Rihanna going to be on their storage servers? | |
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| | Grr MAFIAA please just go away already. Really. For the good of humanity. | |
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DesdinovaPremium
join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | Hmmm... How is this different from a seedbox? For $35 a month, www.seedunlimited.com gives me 750 gigs encrypted storage space with a 100 mbs connection (on their end) and I can stream content on any computer via their interface. What's different between this and Amazon's service (which seems a lot more expensive). | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Re: Hmmm... said by Desdinova:How is this different from a seedbox? For $35 a month, www.seedunlimited.com gives me 750 gigs encrypted storage space with a 100 mbs connection (on their end) and I can stream content on any computer via their interface. What's different between this and Amazon's service (which seems a lot more expensive).
that isn't DEDICATED!
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join:2003-01-26
Gaithersburg, MD | Re: Hmmm... Thanks for stepping in to answer the question for me. Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know what you mean by dedicated. I understand its use in terms of "dedicated data line" for an RJ45 connection or such, but I'm terribly ignorant in many areas of data transfer tech. More info would be awesome! | |
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join:2001-11-25
Phoenix, AZ |  Broken Can't Upload
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| | | Re: Broken Can't Upload Most likely a crap load of people using it right now with the promo and the free space. Give it a couple of days and everyone who is done playing with their "new toy" will get board. | |
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JJVPremium
join:2001-04-25
Seattle, WA | I tried it I just tried it. The price is right. The interface sucks.
I cant seem to upload a directory. Just one file at a time. | |
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|  DownTheShoreTag, you're itPremium
join:2003-12-02
Beautiful NJ
kudos:11 | Re: I tried it I tried it and everything uploaded smoothly. Bought a $5 album and put it into the cloud and had it auto download to my computer. Ditto no problem.
Read the TOS and the only thing I plan to keep in it are my Amazon MP3 purchases. When the 20GB expires, I'll pare everything down to the 5GB level.  | |
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| sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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Arlington, TX
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·RoadRunner Cable
| You can upload multiple files by shift-clicking.
You can mass-upload music (and only music) more easily with their Adobe AIR-powered upload tool. Just point it at the folder where you keep your mp3s.
However...
Music uploaded to CloudDrive gets automatically sorted into new folders based on ID3 tags. I find this extremely annoying as I don't sort my music that way and much of my collection has been stripped of tags anyway. CloudPlayer also organizes things this way with no regard for what folder they may be in on CloudDrive. Totally, utterly braindead IMO.
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kudos:4 | Proprietary player software THANKS BUT NO THANKS!
I wonder what they're slipping in with that!
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| sivranBack to Opera againPremium
join:2003-09-15
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| Re: Proprietary player software No, it's not a proprietary player.
There is an upload tool you can download to make it easier to mass-upload files, but it is optional.
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| | | | Re: Proprietary player software Yet another thing for AT&T and other cap-wanting ISP's to try to stop. The entire "cloud" thing...
What is going to happen when Google and Microsoft and all of these other companies succeed in getting everything to do with computing on a "cloud" and then the ISP's want to limit bandwidth even more instead of upgrading? Oops. | |
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