online file storage

[1/15/14] Box.com offering 50 GB for IOS

[6/3/11] AVG Livekive gives you 5 GB.

[5/15/11] Noticed Amazon Cloud Drive gives you 5 GB. But Skydrive is up to 25 GB.

[6/22/10] Backing up your hard drive has never been easier or less expensive. You can either buy an external hard drive (we like the LaCie Rugged 500 Gigabyte model that retails for $139 on NewEgg.com), or rent virtual backup space via companies like Dropbox.com, Mozy and iDrive. I personally use Dropbox. Any file I create I save to a Dropbox folder on my computer. While I work away, the document is being saved to a virtual server. The best part? I can access all the files on my computer from any machine, anywhere.

[7/11/10] Trying out dropbox. Quite easy to use. Acts just like another folder on your computer. Trying out idrive too. Seems more like mozy as it does scheduled backups. Both offer 2GB free.

[7/9/09] Digital Slob features dropbox which offers 2GB free which allows you to put virtual folders on the internet to share with other computers

[6/12/09] l4rge is now working again. And so is the website access which never worked before. We'll see when the ads start popping up.

[6/10/09] With diino going away (the free version anyway), I tried l4rge. It has massive file storage [15 GB]. FTP worked, but for some reason the web access don't work. No problem. I wanted to use it for storage anyway.

But now, when I tried today, I can't log on. Maybe they're gone now. So I tried another search and wound up with teradepot which gives you like 10GB. But I can't figure out how to do multiple uploads and apparently the files are erased after a period of time.

[3/3/09] Here's one I found while searching for free online file storage. Adrive gives you 50GB! However the free version has some ads. And the file dates aren't preserved (like diino). Seems to upload pretty fast.

[2/1/09] A site called drop.io allows you to upload and share on the Net anything up to 100 MB in size for free, and provides password protection for access to that data. Also, assuming what you want to store or share is faxable, it allows you to send and receive up to 20 pages at a time FOR FREE without a fax machine. Finally, a toll-free bridge from your computer's desktop to the nation's engine of commerce (which remains technologically stuck in 1989).

[6/12/08] I'm finally trying out mozy after they sent me an email that they have a new version out. It's kind of different and kind of neat. It runs in the background and backs up your system automatically every day. You can choose what you want to backup. One things that's nice is that it's smart enough to know how to back up your email from Outlook Express. It can only backup 2GB on the free account though. It's $4.95 per month for unlimited space.

[5/20/08] While doing a search on the web, I came across 4shared.com which gives you 5 GB. Seems to upload pretty fast.

[4/9/08] Windows Live Skydrive gives you 5GB <!- found while looking for gdrive -->

[2/11/08] Another one is Mediamax.

[12/10/07] I'm trying out diino [via frwr-news] which gives 2 GB free and after getting used to it, I find that I like it the best so far. It works with a client in which you can drag and drop files. File transfer speed isn't the fastest though.

[6/26/07] I notice esnips is now offering 5 GB.

[3/28/07] xdrive has been bought out by AOL and offers 5 GB. Unfortunately, they didn't give it to me when I signed up. Mozy offers 2 GB but requires software and works only on XP and up.

[11/12/06] Box.net is mentioned over in the Hardware Junkies MSN group. They give you 1 GB and seems more responsive than the sites I tried before.

Still waiting for gdrive (google drive). Haven't tried gmail drive yet.

[12/25/05] I'm trying esnips (tip from brknews of all places) which give you 1GB of storage. It seems a little clunky and doesn't allow folder inside folders. One large file (mia.htm) errored out. Another one seemed to upload OK.

[10/22/05] Here's another one, streamload.com (from Bill Husted's column in the 10/9/05 starbulletin.)

[10/19/05] I tried a couple of places. Flipdrive seems OK, though I had trouble uploading using IE. It worked fine with FireFox. A mainstream solution is Yahoo! Briefcase. I just tried it and had no problems. Flipdrive gives you 25 MB. Yahoo! Briefcase gives you 30 MB.

[10/18/05] How about free online file storage? You know places you can back up your files to some hard drive somewhere on the internet? Freewebspace.net mentions six of these places.

If you just want to save photos, I've been using imageshack. Another one I've tried is imageshare.biz (though this one leaves a little "hosted by" message at the bottom). There are a bunch of others that I haven't tried yet.