Reviews of Jungle Disk for Windows

1. 
   mavink

   Reviewing 2.61a (Aug 30, 2009)

   Jungle Disk is one of the best tools for making backups to S3; but a new alternative is available in beta, called CloudBerry. There's a review comparing the two at: http://bit.ly/gkyS7
2. 
   alfredooo

   Reviewing 2.10a (Apr 23, 2009)

   By default restores every file and every folder ever deleted or renamed. Jungle Disk simply does not have the option to age deletions so they get purged out eventually. Instead either restore way more files than actually got deleted by mistake, or never get the chance to recover from deletions. Strangely they do handle versioning, so it baffles me why they could not implement deletion aging. You should also know that files restored lose their creation date, which is reset to the restore date, so it’s harder to recuperate from the problem. Support was just awful and since I did not loose data, they were very insensitive to the hours lost and major mess caused. Took 3 weeks to diagnose problem and some 30 back and forths. 4 weeks for resolution. Did give $20 software price refund.
3. 
   robellie

   Reviewing 1.50c (Mar 4, 2008)

   I was surfing around and found this site on Jungle Disk. I listened to Leo Laporte's podcast talking about Jungle Disk and gave it a try. So far I love it, especially the peace of mind it provides. I also wrote my thoughts on it at www.macnwinblog.com. See what you think.
4. 
   nroediger

   Reviewing 1.25b Beta (Nov 20, 2007)

   @ Don Juan: JungleDisk != Amazon. JungleDisk won't bill anything except for the one time price of their software.
   And btw.. You should read the pricing details. Storage and traffic are not bundled. You only pay for what you really use. Say you already have uploaded 100 MB and do not change anything, there is *no* traffic being billed, just the storage fee for the 100 MB (0,02 USD / mo.).
   I think this is really fair. I use Amazon S3 for all my personal backup needs. And I use JungleDisk as the most flexible and reliable software client for Amazon S3.
5. 
   Don Juan

   Reviewing 1.02 Beta (May 12, 2006)

   For five cents a month you get 250mb of storage and 25mb of transfer. How does that work? That would take you 10 months to fill the space up without going over your bandwidth allowance, not to mention it you had to retrieve data from there. I don't wanna sign up and find out, but something tells me they charge huge bandwidth overage premiums, which would make this service an even worse deal.
   
   There are plenty of web hosts that can do far far better that these prices. With my current web host I get 75GB of storage and 600GB a month of bandwidth at the price of $90 for fourteen months. If you did the math for the equivalent amount of storage on this host, it would come out to $160 for twelve months, and you'd only be getting about 16% as much bandwidth for a whole year as the web host gives you for one month, not to mention all the additional things you can do with a web host.
   
   There are also a few free alternatives to this:
   * Mozy Remote Backup which offers 2GB and also has premium service available for slightly better prices than Jungle Disk. http://fileforum.betanew...ote_Backup/1133484553/1
   * Use your Gmail 2.7GB and one of various free programs that allows you to store files there. http://fileforum.betanew...Mail_Drive/1097807577/1

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