10% Discount Offered by SpiderOak

SpiderOak announced a 10% discount on its suite of online backup-related services to ex-subscribers of Xdrive, an AOL online file storage service that will fold on January 1, 2009. The 10% discount will be available to the first 5,000 former Xdrive users who sign up for paid accounts with SpiderOak.

Xdrive exiles can qualify for a discount by entering the promotion code ‘xdrive’ when prompted during the new user setup process or when upgrading from a free to a paid account at a later date. Standard SpiderOak pricing is free for the first 2GB of storage, $10/month from 2 to 100GB, and $10/month for each additional 100GB increment for an unlimited number of devices.

SpiderOak is the only online storage provider that enables users to store, backup, access and share files from any combination of Windows, Mac and Linux computers as well as external storage media in a single account. All data is stored in a central storage repository — called a ‘SuperCloud’ — and accessible from any device in the user’s virtual personal network. Sync services will be added later this year.

Spider Oak’s advanced de-duping cuts backup/sync time by as much as 90% as well as reducing storage costs by conserving space. Other features unique to SpiderOak include perpetual file and version storage even for older and deleted files, the ability to aggregate multiple devices in one account to take advantage of bulk storage rates, and an industry-first no-password-storage security policy that prevents even SpiderOak employees from viewing user information including file and folder names.

Multiple redundancy strategies and an automated stress testing and verification system protect customers against data loss.