Somebody on IRC just informed me that he is currently getting about 267KB/s on a 100mbps connection.
#BITCASA SHUTTING DOWN DOWNLOAD#
If you don’t have 10TB of space locally, and your upload speed is low - as is the case on most residential connections - then you are already unable to back up all of your data at all.Īnd realistically, it’s not like their desktop client can even download at a reasonable speed. If you only noticed at a later moment, you have an even bigger problem. If you were to have 10TB of data on your account, that would mean that, if you were to run your download process 24/7, you’d have to consistently download at 5.28MB/sec - that’s mega bytes per second - without interruption.Īnd that is assuming that you heard about this one day after the announcement, at the latest. Not wanting to lose my files, I selected a new storage plan and initiated the requisite automatic file transfer on Bitcasa’s servers.Īs “joepie91” pointed out in his post entitled The Great Bitcasa Purge, Bitcasa essentially forced its users into sticking around because it was the only way to retain their data: I went into labor five days later and was forced to abandon that effort. In the rare instance that the desktop app functioned properly, Bitcasa’s download speeds proved to be so painfully slow that it took an entire afternoon to transfer one album’s worth of MP3s. Even worse, if users didn’t select a new storage plan and initiate the file transfer before the deadline, all their files would be lost.Īfter that announcement, I decided I should create a local backup of my files that exclusively resided on Bitcasa Drive, just in case. I read the email again.īitcasa gave users a mere 23-day notice of the change. Since I was only using about 100GB, it was a simple decision, and I again didn’t feel too slighted by the change.īut something seemed off.
#BITCASA SHUTTING DOWN UPGRADE#
I was given the option to convert to a premium 1TB plan for the same price of $99/year, or upgrade to a 10TB plan for $999/year. Less than a year later, on October 23, 2014, Bitcasa announced that they were removing all grandfathered infinite plans.
In fact, I felt even more confident in Bitcasa’s ability to keep my data safe I thought that if they were charging that much for storage, it must be an incredible service. I was grandfathered in at the previous $99/year rate, so I didn’t fret too much. In November of 2013, Bitcasa announced that the price of their infinite storage option would increase to $999/year for new users. Records of my growing belly as we eagerly awaited the arrival of our first child.įootage of us hearing our baby’s heartbeat for the first time.Įverything I wanted to preserve. Images of my fiancé and me shortly after he proposed atop a castle in Slovenia? Sure, go for it.įrom there, every new file was saved to Bitcasa Drive by default. Years and years of digital photos and videos that needed to be purged from my iPhone? You got it. Over the following months, I slowly transferred all of my personal files from my work computer to my Bitcasa Drive. Still, it was an acceptable option, especially for the $99/year price tag it carried at the time. It was slow and clunky, and required frequent updates and reboots to function properly. It didn’t take long to discover that the Bitcasa app fell short of expectations.
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