At work I have a dedicated FreeBSD dev box, but I prefer to write code on my Windows laptop. Until today I was using the NFS client in Microsoft's Windows Services for UNIX package to mount my FreeBSD home directory. This worked okay, but for some reason it's ridiculously slow when doing anything that involves walking a directory tree.
This morning I finally got fed up. I killed NFS in the face and installed the trial version of SftpDrive. It's such a huge improvement over NFS that I've already bought a license even though the trial version is free for six weeks. I highly recommend it.
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I agree, I've been using SftpDrive myself for a while now. The support by Jeff through their forums is great too.
Did you sign-up for the free Strongspace storage that comes with every SftpDrive licence? They support rsync, so I've been using it as my offsite backup using rsnapshot from my FreeBSD box where my files are stored.
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Haven't taken advantage of the Strongspace deal yet. I've often been tempted by Strongspace, but the problem is that they're way too expensive compared to S3, CrashPlan, or even a DreamHost account.
Free is a nice price, but 3 gigs isn't going to do me much good, since the data I cherish most in the world are the lossless masters of my video projects, which (as you can imagine) are pretty huge.