People have claimed to have received highest possible upload speeds with Wuala.
Wuala provides extremely fast upload and download space because of their innovative technology. With versioning, you can see old versions of the file, and even recover deleted files. You will be able to see different versions of your file, and automatic backups.
Once you trade space on your hard disk to get additional free space online, Wuala also starts giving you Pro features for Free. If you need 10GB additional free space, you can donate just 10GB space, and so on. I find this an extremely fantastic idea, because hard disk of computers have become so large nowadays that tons of space remains free (and if you don’t have free space, you can upload your junk – like videos to GoAruna to free up your disk). Wuala will use that to store files of other users (in totally encrypted form, so you can’t make sense of them). Wuala lets you get more than 100 GB of online storage space for absolutely Free! In exchange, you need to donate the same amount of space on your hard disk to Wuala. Here is why Wuala is better than Dropbox or Live Mesh: Now, these are the features that most of the online storage services provide, like Dropbox, and Live Mesh (Check out nice review of Dropbox by Michael). Wuala also lets you share your folders with your friends, and collobarate on your online documents. You can store your documents in that, and access from any computer.
Unlike Dropbox, in which cache folder is hidden, in Wuala you clear Download cache from the settings window.Wuala is a free online backup and storage service. When you download a file or a folder in Wuala, it stores Download cache in its folder and this increases with time and thus can consume most of your disk space. With Dropbox, the file cannot be worked on by two people at the same time but can be accessed by a group. You can notify your friends of the changes you made through the comments. If you and a group of friends are working on a document (provided, all have Wuala installed on their machine) then with Wuala’s Collaboration feature you can edit the file and thus appear the same in your friend’s computer (just like Google Docs). This awesome feature is completely missing in Dropbox. Uploading and Downloading SpeedĬan’t comment on uploading speed, but Downloading speed is much better than Dropbox, reason is each file you upload to Wuala server has five similar copies of it, so Wuala downloads the file from five locations simultaneously and thus better speed (same technique is used by download managers). For people interested in paying for storage for premium needs, I found that Wuala plans are actually cheaper than Dropbox. Like Dropbox you can always refer Wuala to your friends and gain free space up to 3GB. Wuala by default offers just 1GB of cloud storage, that might sound pretty less as Dropbox offers 2GB of free storage at the beginning (although they are some tasks that are to finished). There are only two ways to access your files stored on Wuala, one is through the desktop app, second one is through the java app available on its website. Files stored on Wuala are not available through its website, so chances of getting your files compromised are almost nil! No doubt, Dropbox is a great way to backup and store your files on the cloud, but have you ever thought of an alternative? May be you haven’t, but Wuala is a good alternative when compared to Dropbox.Īfter the Last Pass security has compromised, many people came to know about the danger of storing files on the cloud and I suppose this can happen with even Dropbox! But I bet this won’t happen with Wuala. Cloud services are getting popular day by day, after all it’s the best way to backup, share and sync files.