SugarSync Cuts Prices

April 2nd, 2008 (8:00am) Mike Gunderloy 6 CommentsTweet This

Multiple computer and online synchronization utility Sugarsync has been getting good reviews, here and elsewhere. Part of the initial attraction was a 50% discount on pricing for users who signed up quickly. Now the company has announced that those lower rates are permanent.

Pricing is on a sliding scale, from $2.49 per month or $24.99 per year for 10GB, up to $24.99 per month or $249.99 per year for 250GB of online storage. And those early users? Don’t feel too sorry for them; they’re getting additional discounts for their first year. You can still check out the service for 45 days for free.

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Comments (6)

I do not understand what is the fuss about SugarSync when FolderShare does exactly the same thing for free and for unlimited online storage!

Zia — 12:36 PM on April 2, 2008 Reply
Zia, FolderShare requires the corresponding PCs (and PCs *only*) to be online.

This is a nice article about sync definition (at least, what sync should be): What is Sync.

Buhi — 5:03 PM on April 2, 2008 Reply
I’ve been using SugarSync and I love it. FolderShare is OK, but it can only sync files up to 2 GBs in size.

Ben — 8:56 PM on April 2, 2008 Reply
Buhi, Ben

Thanks for the clarification!

Zia — 7:51 AM on April 3, 2008 Reply
Can SugarSync or FolderShare be used to synch my Thunderbird email? Ideally, I’d like to have my desktop email be synched with my laptop. I use Thunderbird on both.

Andrew — 11:32 AM on April 3, 2008 Reply
Try out Syncplicity, http://www.syncplicity.com. It syncs and stores, but also works with web 2.0 applications such as google docs and facebook.

Planbster — 2:39 PM on June 2, 2008 Reply