The breaking news is that a major player in the (US) backup market ‘XDrive‘ is being closed down. All users are being informed to backup their data as a zip file and store it elsewhere! XDrive users have until the January 12, 2009.
XDrive was owned by AOL and they have decided to close down the service as it’s not making them any money. We’ve heard similar things, i.e companies not making any money about a number of other popular low cost consumer backup solutions.
Another big reason for this is the price war these firms are in and you cannit offer the most storage for next to nothing due to equipment and transfer costs.
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December 11th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Over at Techcrunch they are saying that AOL are trying to sell XDrive for £5M
December 11th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
It looks as though Elephant Drive will mop a lot of XDrive’s backup customers, at least for the US Market.