Comments on: ZumoDrive goes live, iPhone app tags along [Update]

By: Credit Default Swap

Credit Default Swap — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:24:50 +0000

Dead Pool : Where do you put your money?

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:57:40 +0000

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.

By: Dead Pool

Dead Pool — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:12:00 +0000

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.

By: Klayton Lam

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:51:49 +0000

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.

By: lazysupper

lazysupper — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:44:01 +0000

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.

By: Larry Velez

Larry Velez — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:18:00 +0000

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.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:20:36 +0000

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.

By: lazysupper

lazysupper — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:47:33 +0000

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!

By: KillerStartups.com - ZumoDrive.com - Hybrid Cloud Storage

KillerStartups.com - ZumoDrive.com - Hybrid Cloud Storage — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:59:09 +0000

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By: sesh

sesh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:18:03 +0000

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.

By: rsm

rsm — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:17:57 +0000

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.

By: David Zhao

David Zhao — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:17:32 +0000

We’ve pushed out a fix that addresses the incompatibility. It should work fine now.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:02:25 +0000

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.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:59:05 +0000

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.

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:35:31 +0000

It needs work according to what i’m reading here and elsewhere…plus, yes it’s a tad bit expensive for what it does.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:20:23 +0000

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

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:00:04 +0000

So it’s a file storage service with synchronization between devices? Yeah, there is no easier way to say that…

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By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:59:25 +0000

It seems Safari 4 is causing issues even though I’m using FF. An update is coming, says ZD.