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Dropbox alternatives: Cloud storage burst

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MyBroadband; By Alastair Otter 		Mail this story
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Still storing data on your local hard drive? It's time to get with the times. Cloud storage - files saved remotely on Internet-based servers - is the new big thing. Cloud storage also means that your data is safe if your hard disk dies and it is also with you when you're on the road.

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Sander_Marechal ·
Is it me, or does this really smell like old 1980's tech with the magic "cloud" pixie dust sprinkled over it? Syncing? Please, give me fast, distributed and secure online storage that mounts directly into my filesystem. Something like NFS or SSHFS on steroids.

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