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Streem (YC S12) Offers Unlimited Cloud Storage and Streaming for $20/Month

102 pointsby tluthraabout 11 years ago

18 comments

ghshephardabout 11 years ago
The instant I see the word &quot;Unlimited&quot; - I don&#x27;t even bother to investigate further, as the project is either (A) Lying, (B) Unsustainable, (C) Rate limiting or otherwise bottlenecking you so you can&#x27;t really use the service effectively.<p>I&#x27;ve seen dozens (maybe more) references to the &quot;Unlimited&quot; service, and with only a few exceptions, they always fall into one of those categories.<p>I&#x27;m wondering when other people come around to my perspective, such that companies just put what those limits are, or clarify what the bottlenecks are.<p>I.E. Flickr doesn&#x27;t say, &quot;Unlimited Photos&quot; for free, they say one Terabyte. One Terabyte of photos is much, much more interesting to me than &quot;unlimited&quot;. And, when it does say &quot;Unlimited Uploads&quot; - it notes that you are limited to 200 MByte&#x2F;photo.
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slgabout 11 years ago
Does anyone actually have experience with this? It sounds like one of those &quot;there has to be a catch&quot; type services.<p>Any limits on filetypes? Is there a max size per file? How is the network speed? Do they fire any customers who use too much storage space and&#x2F;or bandwidth?<p>What is stopping my company from encrypting our database backups and uploading them to Streem nightly for permanent storage at a fraction of the price of normal offsite backups?
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dazigabout 11 years ago
You should really avoid using this service. The terms are really scary. You should read them before using them for anything. They basically take over the rights of anything you put up there and may use them in any way they want. Upload your home movie? They can use it for ads, selling it to 3rd parties, use your audio for a new product or anything else they can imagine. The &quot;best&quot; part is, they provide you no way to delete your data. Once you upload it, they &quot;own&quot; it and they may (and will) keep it forever:<p>&quot;By posting any User Content on the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, to Company a royalty-free, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and&#x2F;or likeness as contained in your User Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service and Company’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each User of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under this Agreement.&quot;<p>&quot;If the features of the Service allow you to remove or delete User Content from the Service, the above licenses granted by you in your User Content terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete such User Content from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that Company may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Content that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User Content for which the Service does not provide you a means to delete or remove are perpetual and irrevocable.&quot;
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ecesenaabout 11 years ago
I have some concerns on the 2 sentences (from their website):<p>- &quot;We&#x27;ve developed proprietary de-duplication and compression technology to be able to give you unlimited storage&quot;<p>- &quot;Your files are encrypted with AES-256 bit encryption&quot;<p>I&#x27;d prefer to know that my data is not encrypted, rather than reading marketing sentences that have none or obscure meaning when read together.
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msoadabout 11 years ago
Cloud storage is not about size for me. It&#x27;s about the experience. I&#x27;m pretty happy paying $2 a month to Google and getting tons of different services for my cloud
ksecabout 11 years ago
It was only recently i had the pain of looking for a Cloud Storage solution and none of them seems to fit my needs &#x2F; taste &#x2F; price.<p>Yes. Whenever i see unlimited i dont even look further into it. Well unless they are from big companies like Microsoft or Google which could actually afford to do it. Otherwise they dont have a viable business model. And i am weary of that.<p>I dont (quite) trust Google. And Client of Google Drive just somehow doesn&#x27;t really suit my taste either. Skydrive is expensive. Dropbox client is the best, but i cant bring to myself to pay 5 times the price. Hubic has crap interface. I am looking at MediaFire and Bitcasa, but both previously had some bad reputation with it. Copy from Barracuda looks like best candidate at the moment.<p>I have my own NAS at home. 2x2TB Synology. But I know my home&#x27;s power delivery quality isn&#x27;t that great. Power Surge and Lighting are things that could easily destroy your NAS or Data even i have Raid 1 with another external backup. Having something in the cloud just removes the hassle of doing it yourself.<p>I have been dreaming lately of a NAS that does it with Backup in the Cloud in one go. And i just pay an initial fees with a monthly fees. Hoping Apple would do one. But since margin is so low i guess they are not interested.
goericabout 11 years ago
Will this work with Rsync and allow me to automatically copy the contents of my seedbox (Linux) so I can stream it? My seedbox only downloads free indie movies...
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funkyyabout 11 years ago
Can you explain how this is better than - for example - Google Drive with their 1TB for $10?
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dublinbenabout 11 years ago
This looks like a much worse deal than OVH&#x27;s new service Hubic. At 10 Euro a month ($13.80), they offer 10 TB (an essentially unlimited amount of space) with no restrictions on file size or file type. You can actually encrypt your files before uploading (which you should be doing) and host whatever you want.
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gramseyabout 11 years ago
If they offer a video&#x2F;audio streaming service, what happens if I upload an mp4 of a copyrighted movie, even if I own it? Do they check files to see if they are copyrighted? If they do, will files be deleted automatically or will notice be given?
mrmondoabout 11 years ago
How can it de-dupe properly if it is truly encrypted? Also, it&#x27;s not unlimited storage for $20&#x2F;month, it&#x27;s only 200GB for $20&#x2F;month.<p>Not nearly cheap enough for use with movies &#x2F; music IMO
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rafeedabout 11 years ago
This almost seems too good to be true. Can you stream .MKV files too? Looks like there&#x27;s no iOS or native apps yet. I guess we just use our browser and stream directly?
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samstaveabout 11 years ago
Sounds like Plex? And plex has apps for my smart TV as well...
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nspabout 11 years ago
Do you offer an api or any sort of non GUI access? I&#x27;ve come so close to building this out for myself(at much greater expense), looks fantastic
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WalterSearabout 11 years ago
Having been sorely disappointed by crashplan&#x27;s rate-limited servers and dodgy software, I&#x27;m wary of anything &#x27;unlimited&#x27;.
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steven2012about 11 years ago
Is there anything from preventing people from encrypting their hard drive and uploading it as 10 10GB avi files?
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foobarquxabout 11 years ago
How is this different&#x2F;better than streamnation.com?
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forgotprevpassabout 11 years ago
Can I store RAW photo files on this storage?
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