Web Site to Elephant Drive similar to the service Mozy their web pages. And the similarities do not stop just there. Elephant Drive is for better or worse, as well as the same service Mozy. Elephant Drive promote hard on its website that the service offers unlimited storage space - it is perhaps also of the name (even if the elephant is not infinite store). We believe that this claim is a truth more easily with modifications, as the service is strictly regulated.



It is Amazon S3 being used as a storage platform - this explains unlimited storage statement, but - perhaps someone you know - this service has some limitations in relation to, for example, how large file sizes can be. On top of this, the Elephant Drive also introduced its limitations.

The service comes across five different versions. One version for home users and one for the Company. We have seen the release aimed at the private market, and discovered to our horror that the private edition of the service has a maximum file size limited to only 1 GB. Moreover, it is installed on only one client. We believe that the service is divided into many unnecessary issues and be able to benefit only been divided in two. For more details about the different editions, see the vendor's website.

Elephant in use It's easy to get started with the Elephant Drive. A client program at around 2.4 MB available for download from the service's website after you have signed up with a valid e-mail address. Installation of this program is easy for them. At first start-up can you offer to choose between two types of setup: automatically (recommended by the Elephant Drive) and advanced (for experts). The difference between the two options are not great. Select the latter, you can set up things like encryption key, the setup of the folders that it will be the backup and network load manually. Elephant Drive is not the prettiest program we have seen. The graphical user interface rather than the boring. We have no problems with it since it works well in practice. It's easy to find the settings and we do not think many will characterize the application that uses the enemy. On the feature side service is also well equipped. In addition to client service program can be accessed via a Web interface, you can also share files with others. Moreover, we like the service can be connected to a network drive in Windows. Another great feature of the elephant is that it can keep on file versions. For the simplest version kept it on only three versions, while the more expensive versions recorded a long history of file versions.

Conclusion Elephant Drive is literally a blueprint of Mozy Home. The applications have exactly the same features and costs also exactly the same. The advantages of Elephant Drive is that it is an easy to use program for people who want to load up their copies to a storage service on the web. The security is good and functionality, it is not so much to fault. But the recovery of data is time consuming and that the client could have been a little sweeter. We had to choose between Elephant Drive and Mozy, had settled on the latter. Mozy is sweeter, a little easier to use and not as limiting as Elephant Drive. One must not forget that Elephant Drive is a relatively young and new player in the market while Mozy is an established service owned by EMC - which may mean that the company is not going to disappear with the first.