Does it really work? Does it slow down your computer? Can it scale? The company is positive it’s ready, but we need to see it to believe it.īitcasa currently has 20 patents for its technology and plans to add more in the future. This service sounds almost too good to be true, leaving us with questions that need still need to be answered. Bitcasa also explained that a freemium model is on its way with less-than-unlimited storage for free. Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable. Each person only tends to have around 25 GB of unique, personal data, he says. If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example. The fact is, 60% of your data is duplicate. Explains Bitcasa CEO Tony Gauda, $10/month still gives the company large margins. They click the link to have the file delivered directly to their desktop.Īnd the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap? Sharing files via Bitcasa is simple too: just copy and paste a file’s or folder’s link (a URL, available on right-click) and send to someone via email, IM or some other service. And in order to deal with the “offline” problem, the files you use the most are intelligently cached on your computer, allowing you to work when the cloud goes down, which is rare, as well as when you don’t have an Internet connection, which is more common. If you’re still having a hard time wrapping your head around this idea, think of it like this: instead of relying on the fallible and limited hard drive in your computer (or soon, your phone), your data is stored on an array of thousands of hard drives and streamed to you on demand. Even if the RIAA and MPAA came knocking on Bitcasa’s doors, subpoenas in hand, all Bitcasa would have is a collection of encrypted bits with no means to decrypt them. So if you want to cloud-enable your 80 GB collection of MP3’s or a terabyte of movies (acquired mainly through torrenting, naughty you!), go ahead. And because the data is encrypted on the client side, Bitcasa doesn’t even know what it’s storing. It doesn’t see the file’s title or know its contents. It doesn’t know anything about the file itself, really. When you save a file, Bitcasa writes those 1’s and 0’s to its server-side infrastructure in the cloud. It deals in bits and bytes, the 1’s and 0’s of digital data. Other services, like Megaupload or YouSendIt revolve around sharing files through the cloud.īut Bitcasa is not like any of those services.
Plus, companies like Mozy, Carbonite and Backblaze use the cloud to back up your files. Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Docs, Amazon and countless others have been offering online storage for some time. The idea of using the cloud to store files or sync files between devices is not new. The cloud is your hard drive, and your actual hard drive is just the cache. Instead, you write to the cloud when you save a file on your computer. You don’t see it, it’s not an icon on your desktop, you don’t drag-and-drop files or folders into it. In fact, beyond the pricing and limitless storage, the most disruptive thing about the service is its complete integration with your device. The company is launching a new cloud storage, syncing and sharing service that blows away its competitors, including hard drive manufacturers and online services like DropBox and SkyDrive, with ease. This is the incredible promise of the new TechCrunch Disrupt finalist Bitcasa. And not just a few dozen Gigabytes, Terabytes or even Petabytes, but all of it – infinite storage – for only $10 per month.
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