It could come in handy. I use two http://www.drivehq.com (they only offer you 1 gb) and adrive. It comes in handy if you want to back stuff up.
50 gigs of online storage for free
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Quantum Dragon
MemberThe only problem with these online drives is access!
One day, you say "YEAH, I got 1GB (drivehq) or 50GBs (adrive)" and then the company behind this service goes "Belly-Up" and you are left with the souvenir of those GBs while having lost all your data.
This service is only great for a temporary holding space (a few minutes to at most two hours) when you transfer a big file (or a couple of ...) from one computer to another without the hassle of the "sneaker net method" (manual transfer by portable HD, Flashdrive, DVDs/CDs or (sic) Floppies) AND/OR "possibly" to send a large file (or several pictures) to a friend or relative (much easier than Email or Snail Mail).
Other than that, IMHO, it is too "RISKY"!
Best regards
The Dragon (Paul)
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Why not use the storage of your mail account? Like gmail, hotmail and others.
I too made a bad experience, firstly the free account was terribly slow and secondly after some time, the company told me, that they will see $$ - there is nothing like a free account anymore and thirdly I never got access to my files, something went wrong. No help from the company, they said it's not their fault. Luckily I have other backups too. I would never use online storage as only backup.Posted 14 years ago # -
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don't have it only in one place Gmail over 7 GB don't tell google some say Dropbox is good ?
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.
http://filehippo.com/download_gmail_drive/Posted 14 years ago # -
Best Free Online Storage (Draft)
This article is not one of Gizmo's recommendations, just a collection of links and some short user reviews.
I think the best recommendation is (like always), "read the f***ing manual" and the fine print. And always have at least one more back-up stored somewhere else.
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goodgotd
MemberAnd, as usual, from my point of view, online backup is at best silly and at worst a nightmare. I can download data at a fair rate, but uploading is slower (in fact, up and down are slower- download is only 10x slower) by over 30 times than my Fast Ethernet LAN carries, and *it's* bottlenecked by the drive interface. so for backup, really, another hard drive- such as a modest external USB job- is cheap, faster than DVD, and does it as fast as any other method I can think of short of a dedicated hard drive duplicator.
50 gigs of storage, in the age of 250, 500, 750 gigs of storage becoming normal- how do you pick and choose, and how many hours to upload it?
And when 500 gigabytes =< $50 for a bare SATA drive and 21 bucks for an external enclosure with USB 2.0, delivered anywhere in CONUS, I'd rather keep it closer than the cloud. A WD 120 gig USB 2.0 external costs but 30 bucks and is USB-powered.
plug in, back up, unplug and take somewhere safe. A pair of them gets double copy protection. I'm about ready to start mailing hard drives- it's cheaper!
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Michelle
MemberI don't have very large files to back up and back up is very fast for free. I can't argue about that. I am not really into getting an external hard drive. I have a few files that need to back up and that is it. I won't even come close to that 50 gig. I just like having stuff I may need somewhere safe.
(not hours minutes) I uploaded an 80 gig file to both those places in a matter of minutes. I was backing up my copy of Fishdom Seasons Under The Sea. Comcast is very fast.
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goodgotd
Memberwell, I don't have Comcast (cable, right?,) I have aDSL through Centurylink, 10 mbps down, 768 kbps up. so there's where *I'm* bottlenecked. I occasionally move things through Sendspace and it's painful waiting for 80 megabytes, much less gigs. So for me, it may be free, but it's unusable if I'm going to use my connection for anything else.
USB 2.0 at it's theoretical 480 mbps is far, far faster. Getting an external drive is on the par with getting a USB thumbdrive- just bigger. Still appears as a drive letter (depending on how you have your drive letters locked or not) either between your hard drives and your optical drive(s) and if you don't use the Logical Drive Manager to pin at least your optical drives in place, it will bump them up a letter. Win2k-Seven should detect and connect them automatically.
Been a while since I tried inserting a drive on a fully pinned system (all partitions locked to a specified letter, including the coffee holders) with no space between hard drives and removables but I think it ended up on the end of the letter chain. I always leave several spaces open for thumbdrives, external USB drives, or flash memory readers- most of which take up 4 drive letters. (though if only using a single slot, I usually strip the unused ones of a space in the drive chain using LDM or put them up as high and out of the way as I can.
and I use spare drives without cases, usually.
I just use the adapter (available for less than 20 clams with a power supply- less if you don't need one) that can hook up laptop or desktop internal drives including SATA for testing, cloning, whatever.
I keep old drives or ones from machines that fried motherboards, etc. around- so I have a couple of 80 gig and a 40 gig 3.5" internal drive sitting here for sure that are far from failure, and thus usable for backups.
use 40 gigs on each one, put them in the fire safe out in the shop and even if one fails to start up I still have a copy.
And as for safe- putting my data in the cloud puts it in risk of interception, copy, and just plain curiosity at the very least.
I have no clue how reliable *their* storage is- drive specs, raid level, backup... company stability- but I do know what I can expect out of drives I personally have on hand. But I admit I'm probably in the minority.
the way people trust cloud storage and computing is flat scary, what I've observed of them. I cut my teeth on old school computing, where triple backups were the minimum acceptable protection.
(like, audio tapes on a standard late-1970's audio tape recorder for storing files on the first microprocessor machines- you had to buy a minimum of one tape to store your programs on, but 3 was suggested in case one flaked...)
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