IBM Cloud Block Storage vs. MediaFire

IBM Cloud Block Storage

MediaFire

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM Cloud Block Storage	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.	N/A
MediaFire	Score 3.0 out of 10	N/A	MediaFire is a simple file sharing and storage platform. It allows users to store, share, and view media files within the MediaFire online, desktop, or mobile app interface. The vendor says MediaFire's file storage system is private and secure. In terms of collaboration, users can invite friends to share files via Facebook, Google, Twitter, or email. MediaFire's collaboration features include folder and file sharing, and controls for who can view and/or edit particular files. MediaFire…	N/A

Pricing

IBM Cloud Block Storage

MediaFire

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Block Storage	MediaFire
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	MediaFire
Considered Both Products	IBM Cloud Block Storage Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage. AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions … Incentivized Helpful? Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very … Incentivized Helpful? Veronica Larson Business Analyst Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization … Incentivized Helpful? Rita Joy Information Specialist Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage … Incentivized Helpful? Jude Nickson ICT Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with … Incentivized Helpful? Ramindu Deshapriya Lead Consultant - Technology Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud. Incentivized Helpful? Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level. IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions. Incentivized Helpful? CP Charlie Pusey Technical Operations Manager Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it. Incentivized Helpful? NS Nobuyuki Suzuki CAA (Chief Applications Architect) Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage No experience with other products Incentivized Helpful?	MediaFire Verified User Anonymous Chose MediaFire No other product used yet as alternative. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Gokee Composer Chose MediaFire MediaFire's Pro Pricing is cheaper than Dropbox, although they're less known in the industry. I trust them with important documents, and they [have] never lost a file, whereas I can't say the same about other services like theirs. Customer service is fast and friendly if you … Incentivized Helpful? 🐿 Matthew Karsten Purple Squirrel Media Chose MediaFire MediaFire is a great tool that is growing in service offerings and popularity. I recommend MediaFire as an addition to any content creators tool build as they offer a substantial free cloud storage offering with the ease of private cloud storage integrations and content … Incentivized Helpful? Kunal Aggarwal Student Chose MediaFire MediaFire provides the best services among them and you can easily go for it without any second thought. It is very affordable to use and offers high-security enhancement against the G-Drive & Dropbox. Incentivized Helpful? MA Mostafa Awad Senior Genesys System Engineer Chose MediaFire All four services stand well against each other from the performance and reliability perspectives, but where MediaFire falls behind is in terms of storage offered for the free user,10 GB is an acceptable storage space but is the least amount offered between all four and is the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MediaFire While google Drive is really high end on every aspect, MediaFire can still catch up if it works on certain aspects like ease of collaboration, better security etc. The areas where MediaFire is good at are it's ease of use and free space on offer which can allow smooth sharing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MediaFire We use this as a secondary cloud storage option where features and security provided by other cloud providers are not critical. It has the ability to store large files and has been a cloud storage provider for a long time, however the design and experience is somewhat dated with … Incentivized Helpful? MD Rafsanjani Rahi CEO Chose MediaFire I [have been] using MediaFire for 1 year. I have no big issue with this. I can upload my data any time, check them and I can delete what is not necessary. I got a good pack with [a] reasonable price. And there is no risk to download file from MediaFire. Incentivized Helpful? Tanay Arora Engineer Intern Chose MediaFire MediaFire is easy and free of cost to use up to 10 GB of storage over the web to share data with others. [Other] storages and server like Google Cloud and AWS are way too costly and a little complex to setup or share data over them as they are not designed to share files over … Incentivized Helpful? Charu Bansal Project Payable Technician Chose MediaFire MediaFire lacks big time in front of OneDrive and Dropbox. Also, [the] lack of integration with Microsoft Outlook makes it less useful. [The] low cost of MediaFire makes the companies choose it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MediaFire Mediafire needs to improve the end user usability and design. The file encryption at rest and transfer needs to be available which is a default feature in most cloud based storage providers. 3rd party integration needs to improved like outlook etc for ease of file storage and … Incentivized Helpful? JR john ritchie Marketing online Chose MediaFire Although both have similar functions, the differences between the two are perhaps more associated with the publicity they have received, since Dropbox is a more formal use, while MediaFire is used a lot of time to share movies and files illegally. The advantage that MediaFire … Incentivized Helpful? Daryl Wise Jr. Founder/Owner Chose MediaFire The listed alternative is very good but we prefer Mediafire as we feel it's much more of a simple website to use. Incentivized Helpful? Vinicius Lima Computer Technician Chose MediaFire MediaFire is similar to software like Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Mega and OwnCloud. All of them share similar features. I particularly like MediaFire's usability because it has a smooth, simple and responsive interface. The pricing by MediaFire is also good and the … Incentivized Helpful? Cesare Arienti System Administrator Chose MediaFire The only pro in MediaFire against the others is that it has a very good price. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Farago IT Support Specialist Chose MediaFire All four services stack up pretty well against each other in terms of performance and reliability, but where MediaFire falls behind is in terms of storage offered for the free user. 10GB is still a good amount of space for your average user, but is the least amount offered … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose MediaFire All of these solutions stack up pretty well but there are some differences between them. MediaFire is very easy to use and manage files and documents. With a 10 GB you can do many things and share many documents with the team or the department which is what made us decide to … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM Cloud Block Storage

MediaFire

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings	MediaFire 7.7 Ratings 9% below category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings	MediaFire 8.1 Ratings 7% below category average
User and role management	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	8.30 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	IBM Cloud Block Storage - Ratings	MediaFire 7.8 Ratings 9% below category average
Performance	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	MediaFire
Small Businesses	Vultr Score 6.8 out of 10	SugarSync Score 5.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Pure Storage FlashArray Score 10.0 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	MediaFire
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM Cloud Block Storage	MediaFire
Likelihood to Recommend	The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably. I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand. Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	MediaFire is suitable for individual users that want to store and maybe share files. It has a good initial space in the free version that can be enough for most users. The same applies for small teams that want to store documents (text, presentations) and share it between members (FileDrop features can help increase collaboration and productivity). If you have a big team or want to store big files you have to upgrade to the business or pro version (the price is interesting). Incentivized Vinicius Lima Computer Technician Read full review
Pros	Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing. Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB. Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures. Incentivized Rita Joy Information Specialist Read full review	Fast Uploads. Uploading is quite fast and it doesn't take extremely long. 10GB Overall File Storage Limit. With a Free Account, you can upload up to 10GB of files. Account Never Expires. We let a full year pass where we never logged into Mediafire at one point. And our files were still there! Incentivized Daryl Wise Jr. Founder/Owner Read full review
Cons	The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI Incentivized Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Read full review	Download Page - When you generate a link to download some files it redirects users to a specific page where they can download the file. The page is sometimes confusing and with a lot of ads which can be a little bit annoying. Customization Option - you can find a customization section in "Settings", but there are just a few things that you can really customize. Maybe improving this would be nice to allow you personalize your environment (for companies, for instance). Blocked options for the free version - There are a lot of interesting options that are available just for business and pro versions. If you could at least test it before upgrading your version it would help users decide. Lack of PC sync client - Would be great if you could install a PC client that would synchronize your files. Problems when refreshing your files list in the browser. Sometimes it gets slow and you have to refresh the entire page to continue. Incentivized Vinicius Lima Computer Technician Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter. Incentivized Jude Nickson ICT Manager Read full review	Mediafire needs to improve the end user usability and design. The file encryption at rest and transfer needs to be available which is a default feature in most cloud based storage providers. 3rd party integration needs to improved like outlook etc for ease of file storage and access. The large file allowance ranks above other providers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform. Visualization and Cloud data storage solution. Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer. Incentivized Diana Dumpsey PPC Manager Read full review	Thanks to MediaFire I have been able to recover information stored many years ago on their servers, since they usually do not delete files after a certain time. It has helped me to be able to backup sensitive information from long before the existence of massive clouds, so if you did not make these backups you had to lose all the information, but thanks to half fire that did not happen to me. JR john ritchie Marketing online Read full review
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