Hey, we are two students completing storage market research ($50 thank you)

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MrIrish

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#222439 10-Aug-2017 22:17

Hey team,

A friend and I are conducting a survey to get an idea of the state of the cloud storage market for consumers. The survey is about 60 questions long and takes less than 5 minutes to complete. As a thanks to those that fill it out, we are supplying one random respondent with a 50 dollar voucher to the store/website of their choice.

Survey link: https://goo.gl/forms/pfWsFj3ZlQLpXPvk1

Thanks!

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#1844848 10-Aug-2017 23:25

Done

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#1844850 10-Aug-2017 23:27

Thank you very much. We truly appreciate you taking the time to complete the survey! Good luck in the draw.

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#1844851 10-Aug-2017 23:41

Done!

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MrIrish

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#1844854 10-Aug-2017 23:45

michaelmurfy:

Done!

Thanks Michael. Best of luck in the draw.

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#1844864 11-Aug-2017 01:04

Done, until I reached the captcha at the end. I don't do those anymore because I'm sick of them endlessly repeating the challenges even when I get them all right.

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#1844869 11-Aug-2017 01:28

Done.

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#1844902 11-Aug-2017 08:21

Rikkitic: Done, until I reached the captcha at the end. ...

I only had to tick that I was not a robot. No pictures to select. Easy enough.Yes, Google knows a lot about me.

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#1844982 11-Aug-2017 09:39

Never seems to work for me. I always get endless repeat challenges. But I am also never signed into Google, and that is how I like it.

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#1844991 11-Aug-2017 09:48

Are you focusing on consumer grade services like dropbox? Are you considering enterprise storage like Amazon S3, Backblaze B2? How about backup vendors like Crashplan?

MrIrish

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#1845053 11-Aug-2017 11:16

Rikkitic:

Done, until I reached the captcha at the end. I don't do those anymore because I'm sick of them endlessly repeating the challenges even when I get them all right.

That's fair. Unfortunately, they are a necessity to prevent people spamming the questionnaire. We don't like them either!

djtOtago:

Done.

Thanks pal. Good luck in the draw!

timmmay:

Are you focusing on consumer grade services like dropbox? Are you considering enterprise storage like Amazon S3, Backblaze B2? How about backup vendors like Crashplan?

At this stage, we are just getting a feel for the market. The main focus at this stage is, as you say, consumer grade services. We will definitely consider business and enterprise solutions too.

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#1845062 11-Aug-2017 11:30

Done it, however... "Cloud storage" seems to be treated in the survey as more of a remote storage solution. I actually use OneDrive for storage/sync but also use Crashplan for backup. The survey hints at backup but the questions aren't really geared that way. So I answered with a focus on OneDrive really.

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#1845076 11-Aug-2017 11:46

freitasm:

Done it, however... "Cloud storage" seems to be treated in the survey as more of a remote storage solution. I actually use OneDrive for storage/sync but also use Crashplan for backup. The survey hints at backup but the questions aren't really geared that way. So I answered with a focus on OneDrive really.

That's a fair assessment. At this stage, we are more interested in responses geared towards OneDrive like services, so thanks for that. We'll certainly take your feedback into account.

Thanks for taking the time and good luck in the draw.

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#1845091 11-Aug-2017 12:11

Done.

MrIrish

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#1845093 11-Aug-2017 12:12

sumzitup: Done.

Thanks. Good luck in the draw!

kiwicam

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#1845097 11-Aug-2017 12:19

freitasm:

Done it, however... "Cloud storage" seems to be treated in the survey as more of a remote storage solution. I actually use OneDrive for storage/sync but also use Crashplan for backup. The survey hints at backup but the questions aren't really geared that way. So I answered with a focus on OneDrive really.

I struggled with this aspect too. I ticked three services that I use and pay for for different reasons (iCloud, Dropbox, and CrashPlan). It was difficult to answer some questions when my response is different depending on which service we're discussing.

Otherwise a pretty quick and straight forward survey.

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