Individuals and small companies store a growing portion of their documents and pictures digitally. The risk of losing irreplaceable data in these cases is imminent. SpeedDisk addresses the problem by offering an Internet-based storage and backup solution. Installed and configured the program works autonomous and monitors and saves copies of the content in selected folders.

The program uses Amazon S3, one of the largest data storage services in the world, to store the data. By using several concurrent connections SpeedDisk can achieve a transfer rate well exceeding the transfer rates of comparable competitors.