Comments on: ZumoDrive: Friendly Cloud Storage with Benefits

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:36:11 +0000

“Just wanted to point one thing out – Based on your write up people may think that you need to manually set what you need locally, but that is not really true. As you use stuff it automatically becomes local till you start running low on space. So you do have to be connected on first access but after that things stay local.”

SamW: that’s a valid point. If you’re web connected and open items on your ZumoDrive, you can lose/close your connection and still have access to the files you opened when you were connected. But as you said, it’s *only* for the files you used while you’re connected. Nice, but sort of limiting and I wouldn’t want folks to think that everything was automatically cached locally by default.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:08:29 +0000

I’ll have to try this out with OneNote’s internal synching capability. Other services that simply do synching between machines (like DropBox) bypass OneNote’s capabilities and it is possible for data on one computer to be overwritten by data on another.

OneNote’s synching requires a “shared” drive (like on a network) and ZumoDrive (based on the iTunes example)seems to be the closest to this… fingers crossed!

By: SamW

SamW — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:50:11 +0000

Kevin:

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. After your video tutorial I got an account and it is very cool.

Just wanted to point one thing out – Based on your write up people may think that you need to manually set what you need locally, but that is not really true. As you use stuff it automatically becomes local till you start running low on space. So you do have to be connected on first access but after that things stay local.

I use an option that they have that tells Zumo to keep all my documents local. This works well for me as I have less than 250M of docs. Now I always have all my docs on my netbook and I never have to think about when I may need what. I also discovered that they keep old versions on their website.

With my music I just kept the default settings and I have all the music I have listened to in the last few days locally the rest is in the cloud and will get streamed on demand and then stay local till I start running low on space.

By: CSMR

CSMR — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:12:12 +0000

Sorry, that should be “Jungle Disk”.

By: CSMR

CSMR — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:11:37 +0000

More options.
How does this compare with Jungle Drive, which uses the Amazon S3 service to give mountable network drives?

By: David Zhao

David Zhao — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:40:30 +0000

phatusa, All of your files are transmitted to the server via SSL and then encrypted with AES encryption before we store it in our backend. Only you and people you choose to share with could see your files.

By: phatsua

phatsua — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:11:42 +0000

if i use zumo to keep some of my business private worksheets and documents.. how secure will those documents be to third partys ?

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:49:35 +0000

SugarSync also lets you share photos and stream iTunes. Not super psyched about the product (yet), but I do have an annual subscription.

http://www.sugarsync.com/products/music_photos/sync_music.html

By: dadavildy

dadavildy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:21:12 +0000

Thank you for this!

I have been looking to share photos with my mom with something simple she can handle!

By: David Zhao

David Zhao — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:46:35 +0000

Kevin,
Thanks for the review. I want to point out that we are making it so ZumoDrive will appear as a network drive instead of a removable drive soon. Also, we have another feature in the pipeline that will silently watch any folders that you point to; it make those folders available in your ZumoDrive online and on the other devices. That should eliminate the need of periodic backups all together.