Bitcasa infinite storage: the anatomy of a failure

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Posted By: Sorin Mustaca November 11, 2013

I have to admit that I was greedy … I mean, there is nobody in the market promising Infinite storage as a hard drive in the cloud that never runs out of space.

Hell, this is better than any hard drive !

So, I gave it a try… more than 1.5 years ago:

Member Since March 5, 2012

I was busy and forgot about it. From time to time I received some emails which I erased.

Until… I started to be flooded by emails from them: 11 emails in 3 weeks.

Bitcasa gives you 10 GB for free ! Or at least this is what they say.

This would be absolutely OK if I would actually run out of space…

I do not have any files uploaded, but still, I receive that I am out of space.

Here is the proof:

Is this a marketing gag to force me to become a paying customer?

Well, it doesn’t work !

Goodbye Bitcasa…

Unfortunately, it is not possible to erase your account.

Update:

The saga continues:

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since year 2000 in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is an independent IT Security Consultant focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .