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Asus Web Storage- Anyone using ?
Years back maybe in 2014/15 I bought one intel powered asus zenfone, yes intel was making mobile processors at that time and it was hot af. Asus used to offer free 5 gb cloud storage to all zenfone users. Still now time to time I get promotional offer for their cloud storage and the price seems very competitive. I tb for 1.8$/month if paid for 2 years. I have never seen any discussion on them in this forum. Anyone using them ? Here is the link that I got in my email:
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TIL it's still a thing. Asus laptops also offered them, never used those kinds of offers thinking "they might get bored about it".
proof that RISC > x86 CISC intel trash
You didn't say what you would be using it for.
Back in 2011 or 2012, I got the first gen PadFone. Asus Web Storage came out nearly the same time so I got ~50GB for free for 3 years. The problem (not sure if it still persists) is that it's slow everywhere. I travelled around Asia, Europe and never got usable speed at any place. Also when you download a shared file it does not show how large it is, so it could finish in a minute or tomorrow.
Both issues made it unusable for me.
Remember when phone makers were innovative? To this day the PadFone 1 is the most useful device I ever had. Every iteration since features got removed. I even had the tablet part stolen along with my backpack. That would have been a disaster if I did not have a PadFone.
Before Asus there was HTC, every now and then I contemplated getting a small Bluetooth speaker and every time I thought about getting another HTC One Max. Absolute best external speaker of any phone I had.
Then there was LG, still running the dual screen G8x. Now MS has abandoned dual screen DUO, the mobile market is either boring or fragile flexible screen!
/rantmode_off
For asus storage, read their terms and condition, its good for personal use, if thinking backups and all, not really useful.
I don't think it's designed for backup use from a server.
If it could be easily used to backup my nextcloud data, why not.
What protocols they support? s3? ...
I get the impression that you have to go through their proprietary app, which only works on windows or smartphone.
In short, I don't think we're the target.
Still I think intel gave up too early without taking any challenge.