December 25, 2005

Omnidrive’s Online Storage Actually Works

Michael Arrington

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I’ve been talking to Nik Cubrilovic, the founder of Sydney, Australia based Omnidrive, since I posted about the need for a good online storage service in November (see no. 1 in that post).

I’ve had the chance to test it over the last few days. It’s pre-beta but will be launching soon. They’ve solved a lot of the problems associated with storage away from the network, and has both an online and a desktop interface.

Omnidrive will have a free version with a gig or so of storage, and paid plans after that. The feature set is awesome - it has everything you could ask for, including dealing with massive file uploads in the background. Full review coming soon - sign up for the beta announcement on the site.

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Dave

December 26th, 2005 at 6:25 am

Omnidrive is in Wollongong, not Sydney. Wollongong is about 1.5 hours drive south of Sydney.
Jeremy Zawodny

December 26th, 2005 at 6:38 am

I knew more of this was coming…

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog.....03939.html
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog.....05720.html
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog.....05820.html

Now, to get on that beta list…
Jeremy Zawodny

December 26th, 2005 at 6:38 am

I knew more of this was coming:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog.....05820.html

Now, to get on that beta list…
Liam

December 26th, 2005 at 6:59 am

Isn’t a flash drive a better option for almost anything you might use online storage for?
Jeremiah Owyang

December 26th, 2005 at 7:06 am

I signed up for the beta, if they give me an account, I’ll review it on my blog…

Do you know where and how the storage is maintained?

By any chance do you know the servers that are being used?

I very intersted in this space, a storage cloud is the future, rather than node based storage.
Chris Yeh

December 26th, 2005 at 4:29 pm

I love these services, but I can’t help but compare these to the plethora of Webmail options. I already have a Mozy account (love that too), and plan to keep signing up for additional accounts, until I have all my files backed up.

Who do you see as the eventual acquirers of these services? The usual suspects?
Jared K

December 27th, 2005 at 2:13 am

Omnidrive sounds interesting - especially after reading his blog on the economics of online storage. Speaking of backing up for free…. I recently found this on Digg - a nifty thing (in fact its almost web 2.0ish) called Vembu StoreGrid. I use it for P2P backups in my intranet - so my laptop backs up to my wife’s desktop and….you get the drift Check it out at http://www.vembu.com/storegrid.....tware.html
Jimmy

December 27th, 2005 at 9:40 am

Now we’re talking.

I wonder how they plan to deal with illegal file uploads and the usage of their site as a warez dump-site….
Neil Boothman

December 30th, 2005 at 9:38 am

How quick is Omnidrive?

The more I read about Omnidrive the more it sounds just like an iDisk that .Mac mebers get with their £70 p/a subsription. However, without using an FTP client the iDisk service is teethpullingly slow.
john

January 5th, 2006 at 10:44 am

I’m a video editor and was hoping to find a large online Storage area so I can swap info through computers rather then on external drives….I came to this site and heard talk of a beta version but cannot find out where to sign up…I would appreciate a trial or something, Since I’m transferring a lot of info I need something I can trust…

Anyways, if you can help send an email…

thanks
john
Ed

November 9th, 2006 at 4:47 am

You all should try Nomadisk instead.

http://www.nomadisk.com