The Network (that’s what I’m going to call all the “Crunch” sites from now on) covered the private beta launch of ZumoDrive last month, so there’s no need to get into details again, but we wanted to inform you that the service is now available to the public. Also announced this morning was ZumoDrive’s free “Super Size Me” iPhone application, which is now live.
Now you’ll be able to access your media from wherever you are regardless of the storage capacity of the device you’re on. In other words, your 16GB netbook could feasibly have access to 100GB and your 16GB iPhone could have 500GB of accessible music. The service is free up to 1GB with monthly subscription fees starting at $3.
ZumoDrive stores data in the cloud? Is that a new technology? or am i just nuts?
that is great..
Doesn’t seem to be open to the public yet…
Indeed…. would love to give it a try though.
doesn’t the idrive/.mac service already do this for iphone users?
ZumoDrive is great! Have been using it since a few weeks in the private beta.
Here’s a complete review with alternatives as well: http://www.jashsayani.com/zumodrive-hands-on/
There is a big nasty uber cloud over my house. You think you could get rid of it?
it’s not a new idea, but it looks like a very simple tool to integrate the network drive into my pc or iphone. I’ll give it a try.
Way too expensive. Good luck with that!
erm… not open to public…
“We are currently in private beta, get on the list and we’ll send you an invite as soon as we can.”
They’re based on the West Coast so they’re probably still sleeping. Have some patience.
Wait a minute… “your 16GB iPhone could have 500GB of accessible music.”
But… “The service is free up to 1GB”
500G vs 1G. BS. Make the first 50 or 100G free. Hell, I’ve got 32G I carry around in my pants pocket (see gotgigs.info).
This looks quite interesting – outages notwithstanding – but, unlike Dropbox, there’s no Linux client so I can’t sync to all my devices (even a Linux-based netbook).
You get 2GB free on Dropbox too.
There is a workaround I figured out, but requires that you’re on a Windows or Mac occasionally, and that’s to make ZumoDrive and Dropbox use the same sync folder.
This give me access to my files on Linux through Dropbox and iPhone through ZumoDrive. Obviously, if you make a change on your Linux system, that will propagate up to Dropbox, but ZumoDrive won’t sync until you log on to your Windows machine, let the changes sync down, and then Zumo will sync back up.
It’s a bit hacky, but workable.
Yes its wayyyyy to expensive. 1GB for free is OK I guess but for the larger sizes its cheaper to buy a second mobile hard drive. At least it will still work when you dont have access to the web.
Any imdead against putting ALL your stuff on a service like this. They must be nuts to state that and anyone that puts all their stuff on such a service is even nutser!
@james.. you are correct buy .mobileme is what 100 bucks a year?? Besides in my experience mobimeme has been a terrible service.
@Andy.. true but Dropbox is a sync service. Zumodrive is a bit more basic and just acts as a cloud drive. Personally im not interested in syncing my stuff everywhere.
I think a good alternative to Dropbox is MS Mesh. It does the same job and its free.
With regard to Zumodrive, its just a handy 1GB external disk. I will use it to transfer the odd file between home and work, nothing more nothing less. It aint no game changer but it will be handy until its canned. Dont rely on it for any long term and / or important document storage.
Congratulations to David and the team. Well done!
I think that’s a bit premature. I can’t even get the desktop app to go beyond the sign in page.
It seems Safari 4 is causing issues even though I’m using FF. An update is coming, says ZD.
We’ve pushed out a fix that addresses the incompatibility. It should work fine now.
So it’s a file storage service with synchronization between devices? Yeah, there is no easier way to say that…
I just tried this out. Thanks Kevin.
I think the 1GB free is the cats meow. It is the easiest way that I know to get files from my mac to my iphone.
I now have a drive on my mac. Anything I drop into it is on my Mac. Sure if I use it from my music and video I will need to pay. But I put all my documents in there and it is way under 1GB.
I had used Air Share to do this which was very well done but Zumo is just more versatile and simple.
I know, I know they are more even better for media. One day I will do that too. But right now it is great solution for my documents,
Thanks Zumo
It needs work according to what i’m reading here and elsewhere…plus, yes it’s a tad bit expensive for what it does.
It will not show up in search unless you type Zumodrive or supersize as one word not two. Too expensive, there will be very big competition at much lower costs in a very short amount of time. I would re-think the pricing if I were them. FreeDrive was doing this years ago on the web, I would watch for them to make the same offering at a fraction of the price.
Don’t waste your time with this application, IT DOES NOT WORK YET. ZumoDrive better think about pulling it from the app store or sending out an update to fix the non-funtioning application.
Let me know if I am wrong, but I believe a BIG difference between Zumo and the others is that they allow the OS to *think* that files are there but then don’t actually download the files until they are accessed. That is a pretty big difference. So, while Zumo can act just like other services (Dropbox), the ability to access 50 GB of music on a netbook with a 10 GB hdd seamlessly is innovative and different.
This may also justify the increased cost of the service.
I like the flexibility, ease of use and space zumo drive offers for people on the go. Very useful. Less hard drive ‘weights’ to lug around. Am sure the prices will drop as storage inevitably becomes cheaper.
LOL in the demo, when she’s importing 20Gigs of music into iTunes: “This will take a few minutes, so let’s skip a head a bit.” More like “this will take f**kin’ hours…”
It’s obviously not a new idea, a is basically the future model for storage. But the demo seems to ignore the fact that people may still want to have all their data… ie: on their own personal storage device.
I don’t plan to ever upload all my stuff to the cloud (or “the internet” as we used to call it). I’ll be having my own terabyte tower at home plugged in thank you.
Wow… I can own a cloud!
lazy
I have been using Zumo for a few weeks and love it. I paid for a plan as it simplifies my life.
It did take a day to upload my music into Zumo. But then when I imported it into Itunes on my macbook it did literally take minutes.
Also today with the iphone app my music just showed up right away as did my photos and files.
These guys do good stuff. Their music streaming even works over edge. I am definitely up for supporting innovation like this.
Don’t get me wrong… I’m trying it out for sure!
I’ll just never hand over my only copies to “the cloud”.
Also, I’ve been able to take my entire (PC-residing) music collection with everywhere I go since I got my iPhone in August… using Simplify.
I think this is a great step in the right direction. While some people might still feel that they want their own copy of their data; if you look at how teens work today – some don’t even maintain an email address for very long. All their data lives on the social networks or in email and they just forward it around. It is amazing that they use email addresses as disposable and they curate their social circle by who has their latest email address. Sort of the way celebrities change cell numbers regularly.
I think the next generation will be completely comfortable with all their data in the cloud and technologies like ZumoDrive will do very well in the coming years.
I just put 400MB onto my ZumoDrive account and it was pretty painless. I like that I could potentially eliminate the local copy of my data from all my machines and lighten their load. I would rely on a backup from another service for redundancy. I wonder if Mozy would backup a Zumodrive, we’ll find out.
RE: ZumoDrive: I tried the iPhone app, not working very well. I can see the uploaded mp3 files from my iPhone, but cannot play them. Nothing happens when clicked.
This too will be dead pooled soon enough. Has everyone forgotten XDrive already? They were around at least since 2000, but AOL dropped kicked it to the curb. This space is way to crowded and with big names too. In this economy, I don’t trust my files on anyone’s server as they may go bankrupt at any time.
Dead Pool : Where do you put your money?