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Re:Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total) by peteforde on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @01:36AM (#1932802)
One of the best (and yet seemingly little-known) tricks that Dropbox uses is that it will sync over a local LAN before attempting to download from S3.

Between the tight OS integration and the hash table lookups (it checks to see if that MP3 is already in their storage cloud, leading to regular "instant upload" scenarios) I believe that Dropbox is the best new software tool of the decade.

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Re:Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total) by andreyf on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @08:47PM (#1936170)
I'm not talking about upload/download, I'm talking about 109 gigs of movies on my 120/160GB SSD drive on both my home/work laptops, respectively. Or is everyone else walking around with multi-TB spinning drives in their laptops?
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