{"id":1490,"date":"2013-08-19T18:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:20:36","slug":"bitcasa-all-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/bitcasa-all-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcasa I am all in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE: Nov 1, 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bitcasa changed their value proposition and is no longer something I can recommend. \u00a0Many issues including bad migration management and very BAD customer service. \u00a0 See my updated on this <a href=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/bitcasa-i-am-out\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Original post: August 2013:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After using <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210311142128\/https:\/\/www.bitcasa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bitcasa<\/a> \u00a0for a couple of months, I am all in! \u00a0 \u00a0The hardest part ? \u00a0Letting go of others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">Based on a couple of past articles on the cloud storage topic, you know I have been looking for a a solution to help me store files on the cloud. \u00a0 \u00a0Although\u00a0<\/span>file-sync<span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0services (Dropbox, Skydrive, Google Drive. etc) have a place, \u00a0I just want to use a normal drive letter and have it point to my storage location, and use it like a normal drive&#8230; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">My process (so far)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">Like most, I signed up for the free version which allows 10Gb, and tool it for a test drive. \u00a0I a have fast speed internet, so it took just a couple of hours to upload some of the files I wanted to test&#8230; Documents, Photos, Movies, \u00a0 and fill it up.. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I also created a folder that I want to auto-sync across computers (laptop, desktop)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">Then I added the client to several computers, and my tablet (Apple &amp; Android) devices, and started to use it in every day live, trying to rely on Bitcasa only<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well you know! \u00a0I signed up for the Premium version and am all in! \u00a0\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Observations along the way:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The initial data load and consolidation of my data took a couple of days, but it was fairly painless and surprisingly fast..\n<ul>\n<li>Side note: I had tried to do the same with my amazon S3 account in the past, but after a weekend, I cancelled the transfer, and was always worried about gets, puts and traffic charges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Nov 1, 2014: Bitcasa changed their value proposition and is no longer something I can recommend. \u00a0Many issues including bad migration management and very BAD customer service. \u00a0 See my updated on this here Original post: August 2013:\u00a0 After using Bitcasa \u00a0for a couple of months, I am all in! \u00a0 \u00a0The hardest part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,468],"tags":[467,615],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey","category-thoughts-ramblings","tag-musings","tag-personal-thoughts"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Journey"},{"value":468,"label":"Thoughts and Ramblings"}],"post_tag":[{"value":467,"label":"Musings"},{"value":615,"label":"Personal Thoughts"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg?t=1777571806",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Journey","slug":"journey","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":322,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":322,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Journey","category_nicename":"journey","category_parent":0},{"term_id":468,"name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","slug":"thoughts-ramblings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":478,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":232,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":468,"category_count":232,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","category_nicename":"thoughts-ramblings","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":467,"name":"Musings","slug":"musings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":477,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":115,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":615,"name":"Personal Thoughts","slug":"personal-thoughts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":625,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":69,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}