Farewell free cloud storage: SugarSync starts charging for storage
February 10, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.
Soon after I became a cloud computing reporter for Network World I signed up for a bunch of different cloud services including Box, DropBox, Google Drive and Amazon Web Services. One other service I used, and liked quite a bit, was SugarSync. The platform is very similar to Box and DropBox, offering a folder on your desktop that you simply drop files into that are then stored in the cloud and can be accessed from anywhere with an Internet connection.
SugarSync has an intuitive mobile app and I set it up to automatically copy some folders form the hard drive of my computer so that I could easily grab a document on my phone if I ever needed to. I used it a couple times and was glad I had it. SugarSync gave me 5 GB of free storage when I signed up in September 2012 and there was no word of a pay service would be required down the line…
In December, 2013 the company told me that I had been moved into a free 90-trail of the service. I had two choices: Pay for storage, or lose my data. During the past few weeks the countdown emails began. ‘One week left before you lose your data!’ ‘Sign up for SugarSync in the next 48 hours or else your data will be gone!’ Aboe are the pricing options from SugarSync…
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