Online storage has became a commodity. It’s very much like an online backup, where we, as the end users are always prone to a lot of catastrophes such as theft, disaster or plain data loss. There is a newly launched startup called Dropbox that offer a no-nonsense service in this field which provides online storage, synchronize, and sharing to the end-users without any charge.
Dropbox offer an easy and inexpensive way that make sure your data is always safe. It is also allows for unlimited number of computers and the other great feature is that it make your online backup of your data very simple, in an instant manner since Dropbox synchronize your data from your PC with your Web account even without you lifting a finger.
After you signing up to Dropbox, you’re entitled to a free account with a maximum storage space of 2GB and 10 invites that can be sent to your buddies. I encouraged potential users to sign up for a free account through Dropbox Web site and later take a bold move to install a desktop version of the Dropbox package, approx. 14MB to their PCs (currently they supported Windows, Mac, and Linux). After you’ve installed the software package, you can link your PC to your own Dropbox account that stored your data in Amazon Web Services. By the time, you’ll notice that you will have two accounts, one to be appeared on your default download location, in my case, i.e. My Documents and another one is on the Web.
What’s good is that Dropbox offered a simple Web interface. You’ll notice there are “Files,” and “Photos” buttons on your left-hand sidebar, which you’ll find all the relevant files, or photos on your Dropbox Web account. Besides, there is an “Upload” button, it is served as a tool to alleviate the challenges when you can’t install the Dropbox client, in some situations where your employer not allowed you to install software; You can upload your data one by one to your Dropbox Web account. In addition, Dropbox also offered an easy-to-use Dashboard, you can find all your latest activities are being recorded under the heading of “Recent Events.”
Online storage has definitely become more appealing for end-users if they are allowed to create folders, share files or folders with buddies, and Dropbox understand all these specific needs. Alongside these features, Dropbox also allowed one to view the revisions of her file, download file, copy, move, rename or delete the file under her own wish. At the same time, whatever you’ve make changes to your Dropbox Web account, it will be affected to your own Dropbox client. It is an automated synchronization, the software works quietly in the background. For the security, all the users’ data are encrypted and compressed using 256-bit AES encryption for data backups and industry standard 128-bit SSL technology for data transmission.
The Dropbox service is inexpensive, you’ll always be able to buy a 50GB Dropbox for $9.99/month, or $99.99/year if you feel the initial 2GB is not enough.
To know more about Dropbox, it was founded by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007 and received seed funding from Y Combinator and $1.2M in a Series A funding from Sequoia Capital.
