Overall Rating
JungleDisk is an online storage, backup, and sharing service powered by Amazon S3 that enables you to store an unrestricted amount of data for only 15¢ per GB with no monthly subscription fee and no ongoing commitment. You simply pay as you go and pay only for what you use per month (no minimums). The easily installable desktop client (Windows, Mac, Linux) works just like a local drive allowing your to drag and drop, copy and delete, and share files across multiple computers (one-time installation fee of $20). This Jungle Disk Add-In Client won second place in the Code2Fame challenge. A single Jungle Disk license can be used across an unlimited number of computers with a single Amazon S3 account for storage.
Online File storage and restoration is quick and effortless as well. JungleDisk also offers a business edition; Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition which is an application designed specifically for workgroups an office environments that lets you deposit files and automatically backs up data securely to Amazon.Com’s S3 Storage Service. This allows business workers/groups to create private or shared network drives for their own specific data online backup, storage, and sharing needs. Pretty nice huh?
Data Security
* Your data is fully encrypted previous to leaving your Home Computer/Server machine using AES-256
* Checksums of your data are verified during the upload process to eliminate the likelihood of corruption
* Amazon stores your data on multiple servers across the country to safeguard against data loss
* Multiple file versions are stored (reversioning), allowing you to restore older copies in case of local computer corruption
Storage expenditure
United States
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.100 per GB – all data transfer in
$0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
*There is no charge for delete requests
Europe
Storage
$0.18 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.100 per GB – all data transfer in
$0.170 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.130 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.110 per GB – next 100 TB / month data transfer out
$0.100 per GB – data transfer out / month over 150 TB
Requests
$0.012 per 1,000 PUT, POST, or LIST requests
$0.012 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*
*There is no charge for delete requests
- Data transfer “in” and “out” refers to transfer into and out of Amazon S3.
- Data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, is free of charge (i.E., $0.00 per GB),
Except data transferred between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3-Europe, which will be charged at regular rates.
- Storage and bandwidth size includes all file overhead.
A quick look at an illustration of what the costs associated would be according to the Jungle Disk’s cost table of .15 per GB storage, .10 per GB uploaded (doesn’t include the minimal Get and Put fees). Lets say your photos, videos, and HD camcorder files are 138GB. That would equate to a $13.80 upload fee and roughly a $20.70 monthly charge for the first month. Subsequent months would be $20.70 as long as you don’t upload or download anything new. Annual cost would be $241.50 which seems a bit steep, but for the amount of data is quite in line or less expensive than some other services. Also, just for reference, the desktop version of Jungle Disk is a $20 one time fee that includes lifetime upgrades.
Pro’s
* Truly unlimited storage. No “reasonable usage” clause.
* Strength of Amazon.Com. No doubts of your data disappearing.
* Ease to Use.
Con’s
* Can only backup at the Share level.
* Client has a cost associated with it
* No substantial usage information in the Add-In Client.
* At bit Pricey
JungleDisk’s provides admirable customer support offered via FAQs, user guides, knowledge base, forums, email, and phone. Although our list of Con’s is greater than our Pro’s, the Add-In is very easy to use and we feel very comfortable with storing our invaluable documents with Amazon. Should anything ever happen in your home/business and you lose all your files I doubt you would feel the service is “pricey.”
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