It’s just not quite “free”.īeyond the free 200GB plan, Symform customers can also access unlimited cloud storage for $10 per month–along with also upping the ante on the amount of contributed space relative to the amount of data you plan to store in the “cloud”. Granted, I can get a 1TB drive for $50, so allocating 150GB of space to Symform is not an expensive proposition. Because of the way Symform shreds and stores the data, though, it takes 150GB of space to back up 100GB of data, so you must contribute 150GB of storage to the collective to get your 100GB.īecause of the requirement to contribute your own storage space to the collective at a ratio of 1.5:1, I don’t think the service can really be called “free”. It is more like an online storage collective with some additional security thrown in. Symform is relying on a sort of peer-to-peer network where encrypted fragments of files are stored redundantly across local storage provided by customers. Symform then uses RAID-96 to geographically distribute, encrypt, and shred its data.” Users contribute inexpensive local storage equal to the amount of data that they want to redundantly store in the cloud.
Symform has a unique approach to cloud storage.A press release from Symform explains, “The Symform Storage Cloud is the industry’s first decentralized cloud storage solution.
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