Has Google changed their privacy policy recently? A few years ago they
changed it to give themselves rights to any material stored on any of
their systems. As much as practical, I quit using them at that point.
--J.B.
Tim Selander selander@tkf.att.ne.jp [Avid-L2] wrote:
> Appreciate all the tips I got.
>
> We've done some testing, found what works for us. Reporting here
> for the next folk that have this problem. (Have it in the near
> future, anyway... no doubt the landscape will keep changing.)
>
> Cut to the chase: We settled on Google Drive.
>
> Winner -- Google Drive
> Annual cost about $120 for a 1TB Google Drive; big enough for us.
> Speed: over 18GB an hour. (Downloading/synching on my end with
> 2gbps fiber. Australia client has 40mbps link; did not report
> their upload/synch time to me. But was happy with Google Drive, too.)
> Benefits: Speed, ease of use and very reasonable cost. If I leave
> my machine on all the time (which I tend to do anyway) as the
> client uploads files, they automatically start downloading. No
> links to click, so downloads happen when I'm not even there.)
>
> First Runner Up -- http://gigafile.nu
> This is a Japanese language only service very similar to
> YouSendIt, etc. But no account needed, and can send files up to
> 50GB, and it is absolutely free.
> Annual cost: Free
> Speed: Close second at about 15GB an hour
> Benefits: Cost, speed. Loses a bit on ease of use as the page is
> confusing and Japanese only and you need to get the download
> links from email.
>
> Second Runner Up -- Amazon's S3 storage on an AWS account; free
> trial period.
> Annual cost: Frankly, I found it hard to figure out. It's a much
> more complicated product and I wasn't sure what services I would
> be using. But it looked like it would be at least $720 a year for
> the storage and bandwidth I'd need. That's very reasonable.
> Speed: over 18GB an hour
> Benefits: Speed.
> Cons: I found their whole system very hard to grok. Very
> different than anything I've used yet.
>
> Also rans:
>
> In-house FTP server.
> Tried to set up my own server. Worked great on the internal
> network, could not get at it from outside. After messing with
> router port forwarding and free DNS servers for a few hours, I
> gave up.
>
> FTP on my web host
> Easy, but slow. A bit over 3GB an hour only.
>
> Digital Pigeon -- Trial period
> Easy, but slow. Same as FTP at a bit over 3GB an hour.
> Pricey compared to FTP.
> Have to click email links, so does not run unattended.
>
> I looked at some of the UDP services, but the prices... yikes. I
> looked at some open source implementations, but they were beyond
> my understanding.
>
> Hope this info is of some use to someone, sometime!
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
>
>
> On 1/14/16, 13:49, Tim Selander selander@tkf.att.ne.jp [Avid-L2]
> wrote:
>> I've just taken on my first client who wants to send finished files --
>> about 22 programs a month at 30+GB each -- back and forth between
>> Australia and Japan.
>>
>> I know this comes up from time to time, but what are the good (fast and
>> cheap?) services to accomplish this? Any advice appreciated!
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>>
>>
>
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> Posted by: Tim Selander <selander@tkf.att.ne.jp>
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