Drive. bitcasa update#
In addition to the service change, Bitcasa was also providing a service update to make my “experience faster and more stable”. I then converted my “Infinite” plan to their “Premium” plan, giving me 1TB for the same amount I was paying for “unlimited”.
A year was reasonably enough time to finish my sorting and kept me from having to download and re-upload those files elsewhere. After some research and consideration, I decided to stick with Bitcasa … at least for another year. Bitcasa sent out an email to all its subscribers that they would be ending the Infinite plan in November 2014 and that I would have to either remove my files or change to one of their other plans. Wash, rinse, repeat.įast forward to October 2014 and I still had only touched about 10% of the files. Every few weeks I would remind myself I still needed to sort pictures, spend an hour or so looking through hundreds of them, then set it all aside for a few more weeks. In fact, being the lazy git that I am, I put it off. The thought of then having to sort through all that was not appealing. It took a few weeks, but once everything had been copied over, I had just over 500GB of digital photos and videos saved into Bitcasa. It was a long, tedious process that involved lots of DVDs, several USB drives, a few mobile phones, and a spare hard drive. Sometime in the Spring of 2014 I pulled the trigger and paid for a year of “Infinite” service, then started the actual upload process. At the time Bitcasa sounded like it would be perfect for that plan. My plan was to finally compile the thousands of digital photos and movies (from all four of us) into one location, then sort them, and finally find a more permanent home for them.
The old adage that “you get what you pay for” still held true, but at the time I wasn’t bothered because I was just looking for a place to dump files temporarily. Their early version was cheap, glitchy, and the network was slow while they tried to build a name and clientele. In Windows, my Bitcasa cloud drive basically mounted as another drive letter on my system and I could use Windows Explorer to drag-and-drop files back and forth between the cloud and my local computer.
Drive. bitcasa software#
Their software works much like Dropbox and Box you can store files in the cloud and view them either through their web interface or though your computer’s file manager. At the time, they offered an “infinite” cloud storage plan that was essentially unlimited (the mounted drive measured Petabytes of space).
If that’s not enough to send shivers down your spine … it will when I’m done.Īlmost two years ago, a friend of mine turned me on to Bitcasa.
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