Someone please help me understand this. AMD and Streamload have teamed up to offer AMD LIVE! Media Vault, which promises free online storage of 25GB of data. Or you can pay from $4.95 to $29.95 a month and up the quota to as much as 1000GB.
A terabyte of offline storage? Sounds great, right? Except…
Downloads per month, even for the premium plans, are limited to 10 percent of your total storage capacity. So if you actually pay $10 a month for the Elite plan and use all of the 250GB of storage they allow you to back up your data, and then your hard disk crashes, you get to restore your backed-up files 25GB at a time over 10 months? Huh? That rattling sound you hear is my brain pan hitting the inside of my skull. (It’s even worse if you use the 25GB free storage space, where you’re limited to 1GB of downloads per month, meraning it will take you more than two years to restore a backup.)
Oh, and the promotional copy says: “AMD LIVE! Media Vault handles all of your online backup needs. Never worry about your files again. … Get safe, secure, and private online backup for all your files. … After you upload files, they are easy-to-access, organized, and automatically backed up.”
But the terms and conditions of use say: “Streamload shall have no responsibility for and does not guarantee the integrity of Private Content or Public Content residing on Streamload’s equipment. You are responsible for independent backup of Private Content and Public Content stored using Streamload’s services.”
And don’t get me started on the parts where these clowns say they’ll rat you out to anyone they damn well feel like if you store something there they don’t like:
Streamload may monitor Your access, use, Public Content, files and/or Private Content to detect signs of misuse. Streamload will not knowingly tolerate the use of its services for illegal or other injurious or damaging activities. If Streamload believes, in its own discretion, that You may be connected with such activities, Streamload may disclose its user files, the Public Content and/or Private Content to the proper authorities.
These guys win my award for Worst Online Service in the World.
Ed Bott 
And there’s this tidbit:
“Free account holders cannot download any file greater than 25 MB. Note: you may upload Transfer a file from your computer to your Streamload account. and store files greater than 25 MB to test our service, but you will not be able to download these files until you purchase a paid subscription.”
It’s not a vault, it’s a Hotel California for files.
It’s really the “Here’s my Wallet Award”
All your file are belong to us…
As a former subscriber to Streamload.com (4 year customer), I can say with experience that it’s all smoke and mirrors – sounds good but in actual use it’s a disaster. The service (MediaMax) is currently in shambles and has been since mid-August. To see how bad it was and is (to a lesser extent now) visit their blog – http://blog.streamload.com – and begin with the August 23rd posts and comments.
I used it primarily for backups and only in a very limited sense because uploading took forever at 15kbs on average. And even then you were lucky if the upload finished. Downloads were worse. They were faster (as expected) but anything over several MBs would invariably crash and you were left with starting all over again. All of this was when the service was working optimally.
I recommend that anyone considering online storage to stay as far away from Streamload/MediaMax as possible. Don’t get sucked in with their smoke and mirrors – you’ll be sorry.
Also his amd live media vault sucks! I’m using an Athlon AMD computer, and the application crashes on every run. The’re firing on the toe…
I’ve tried to store 100 GB of my files, music and videos at an online storage provide like Flipdrive and Mediamax. Does it really work during day-to-day usuage? How much does it cost? Can it replace your local harddrive(s)? Check out my report at my blog if you’re interested.
buridan gets it rignt on. It is all smoke and mirrors at Streamload. Either they are a scam or they are running this bussiness on the cheap!! I strongly suggest people contact the Better Business Bureau online. I have been in contact with one of their reps in San Diego for months now. Although nothing may happen in my complaint against StreamLoad, I will note that a BBB compaint I made against another internet scam company was answered by a call from a District Attorney…they were after the company and wanted to know if I could help!!
Oops…and I almost forgot…I got some money back from the scam company!! 🙂 Use BBB!
DOWN WITH MEDIA MAX BRING BACK STREAMLOAD NO SEACH FUNCTION ARE YOU MAD OR FOOLISH choose one as there was no choice to be CONVERTED to media max if i was on the old streamload set up id be a happy streamload user now i have lost music files work and have been stuck in a situation where i cant use your site as a file back up facility a si cant find them coz of no search function am NO WHERE NEAR A HAPPY USER and if there was an alternative to your service id change right now so the person who make that step will take at least 50 percent of your custom as A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT HAPPY as the board is nt commen knowledge
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any of you is not happy with what mediamax provide ?
feel ashame or pay an expensive website to save your files !!
for something completely free, i’m very happy for what i get : i can store 25 GB (datas and songs) and can only download 1GB per month but i’m very satisfied ! If YOU CRASH YOUR MP3-DRIVE, no need to wait for 24 month DICKHEAD !!!
Just take the next princing plan and pay 5 or 10 euros to get all your datas, just for 1 month !! STUPID IDIOT !! YOU LIKE TO SPIT IN THE WIND AND TO SHOUT THE LOUDEST YOU CAN, don’t you ?
A happy mediamax user …