![]() Jottacloud is ideal for the average person I use encFS, which is outdated, but works on almost any platform. It is probably easier and better to encrypt your files than to waste any more thoughts on the privacy/security/terms of Jottacloud. If you downloaded high quality rips to replace your CDs/DVDs (rather than ripping them yourself), or if you have any cracked games that cannot be bought anymore, your files put you at risk of having your Jottacloud account terminated. Their customer support confirmed this to me. However, the terms of service of jottacloud state that you are not allowed to store pirated material. That does not sound like an immediate problem to the average user, also because Jottacloud claims to not look at the content of your files (just the file names). When your account becomes flagged by their system, they will “review the account metadata such as folder structure, file names and checksums” and “evaluate any public links and folders”. This becomes a problem due to their policy to “review” accounts. You should probably encrypt your files on JottacloudĬlearly, Jottacloud cracks down on abuse. In the paid plan you do not have to verify a number. In the free 5GB plan, file sharing is not possible until you verify your phone number via a text message. Well, their hard drives are encrypted, but of course that does not stop anyone with access to the running server from looking at your files. While that is true, and while paying only requires a credit card (no name), there is no file encryption in place. Privacy on a “trust me” basisīeing located in Norway, Jottacloud makes sure to tell you about the privacy laws it is governed by and that they will never give your information to anyone. Of course assuming that you trust Jottacloud to keep the only copy of a file safe and that you have a fast Internet connection to make use of the huge storage space. Nevertheless, it is quite convenient to mount an “unlimited storage” drive and never have to worry about storage space on any device or server. (unless you use rclone on Windows, too, and turn the archive folder into a sync folder) Otherwise, one might have been able to use rclone to get sync functionality on Linux. I set up rclone with Jottacloud (mounted it on my server which runs Ubuntu), but this only lets me access the “Archive” folder, not the sync folder. Furthermore, the photo album shows me files I have already deleted – they can’t be viewed, but they are still shown as a gray picture in the photo album. Worst of all, the “album” doesn’t work well, meaning you see ALL your pictures and videos in one place, which is obviously ridiculous (album art with year 1970 unix time stamp, all your screenshots mixed in with your vacation photos). The app allows you to “scan” a document with your phone camera, but the result is very poor (black and white, grainy). The mobile app (Android/iOS) is focused on uploading photos and videos so you can free up storage on your phone, not on syncing files, although you can upload and download individual files. There is no sync client for Linux (but for Mac), only a CLI tool to backup a folder. No sync folder on Linux, mediocre mobile app for photos / videos ![]() You can move files between the archive and the sync folder, but not between them and the backup folders. The archive is basically just a file locker/storage. There is a sync folder to synchronize across all your devices, you can continuously backup a folder and restore it (up to 5 file versions stored), and you can archive files. ![]() Jottacloud has typical features that you would expect. Hence, I’d say anywhere from 8TB to 15TB is a realistic amount you can store on Jottacloud. At the 10TB / 6 mbit/s cap it will take you two weeks to upload another terabyte (using one simultaneous connection). Then it remains at 1 mbit/s until you delete files. As you upload more, the upload speed is reduced further in small decrements to 6 mbit/s at 10TB stored and 1 mbit/s at 20TB. Without trying it, I assume that this is per connection/device, so it would not severely limit your experience. Currently, upload speeds are throttled when you have more than 5TB of data stored.Īfter 5TB, a 20 mbit/s upload speed cap kicks in. The company has repeatedly adjusted its terms over the years to respond to people abusing the service. ![]() However, the “unlimited” cloud storage you receive in return is not actually unlimited. Jottacloud only charges about 5 Euros a month (about 6 US-Dollars) when you select Norway as your country and pre-pay for a year. Advertisement Incredible value, even though it’s not actually unlimited ![]()
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