Versie 2.0 van BitTorrent Sync is uitgekomen. BitTorrent Sync is een closedsource peer-to-peer file synchronization tool met clients voor Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, Android, iOS, Windows Phone en diverse nas-apparaten. Het maakt het mogelijk om in eigen beheer bestanden te synchroniseren tussen diverse apparaten, maar slaat in tegenstelling tot diensten als Dropbox, Google Drive en OneDrive niets op cloudsystemen op. De verschillen tussen de gratis en betaalde versie zijn in 2.0 wel groter geworden, zo kunnen nog maar maximaal tien mappen worden gesynchroniseerd en kunnen geen rechten worden gezet. De belangrijkste verbeteringen in versie 2.0 kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
16X faster than the cloud.Huge files. Unlimited sharing capacity.
- The shortest path between devices.
Sync uses local networks when available, and cuts out needless round trips through servers in the cloud.- Synchronize only what has changed. Not entire files.
Instead of moving an entire file every time it is updated, Sync incrementally updates only the pieces of a file that have changed.Truly Private.
- No folder size limits. The bigger the better.
10 GB? 100 GB? No problem. Easily move massive multi-terabyte folders.- Sync and share absolutely everything.
Putting all of your stuff in the cloud is impractical. Sync shares everything from existing folders without uploading huge files to the cloud.
- Your information is never stored on servers in the cloud.
Your files and personal identity are only stored locally on the devices you authorize, never in the cloud. Your identity can never be correlated to the data you share with Sync.- No accounts. No passwords. No cloud vulnerability.
Cloud services are attractive to hackers because user account information is centralized. Sync uses distributed cryptographic security so there is no central target for attacks.
