Hive is a product launched by QVIVO, an established unlimited cloud storage service aimed at the content sharing/syncing market.
Features include fetching torrents from public trackers (private tracker not tested) either via magnet links or by dropping the torrent file. Apart from this, user is able to socialize with friends i.e sharing their contents.
As said earlier in the article these kind of services are quite helpful if you have a slow connection or the swarm is full of leechers. Because of their fast connections they retrieve the torrents quickly and you don't have to keep your connection alive while these are fetching the torrents. Then provide high speed direct, resumable download links which are compatible with IDM.
Its quite a different way to fetch your torrents with blazing fast speeds.
Currently the service is in beta period so all user can access streaming and converting features of the application along with unlimited bandwidth (No speed limit).
Features Detail
Storage Size
- Unlimited
Seeding
- There is no mentioning of this in their FAQs so we can assume that they are not concerned with seeding Transfers
- Can have multiple transfers at the same time (Queue system usually takes longer time for more number of files in a torrent)
Bandwidth
- Currently there are not limits as the site is in Beta.
- Speed Hive give each torrent 4 hours to finish before it cancels the transfer Servers placed in Germany and Switzerland
File Types Supported
- Audio: AAC, AIF, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV.
- Documents: CSV, DMG, DOC, DOCX, ISO, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, SRT, SUB, XLS, XLSX, XML.
- Photos: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIFF.
- Videos: AVI, FLV, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, OGV, RM, RMVB, WMV.
Sharing
- Files/Folders can only be shared amongst the users of the service.
- No public sharing Streaming Content is streamable
User Interface
- Organized
- Pleasing to eye ;)
- Few issues in current UI
- Drag Drop functionality has issues
- Permissions can only apply to a folder not the subfolders(you have to apply to them separately)
Extra features
- Trash option
- Files kept for 30 days
Disadvantages
- Your social network account/ gmail account is directly linked, some people may have concerns.
