Can You Use 50GB of Free Online Storage? Who Can't?

by Sam Dean - Mar. 20, 2008Comments (3)

Here at OStatic, we concentrate on open source applications, issues, and the business of open source, but freeware and truly useful free services are always on my radar even if they're not from the open source world. One example of a free service that will probably appeal to open sourcers as well as non-open sourcers is ADrive, which will give anyone 50GB of free online storage--far more than existing providers of free online storage, such as XDrive, are doling out.

I've followed the free online storage arena for some time now. XDrive has gotten a lot of attention for offering 5GB of free online storage. Then there are interesting players who don't offer all that much storage capacity, but serve up useful, free applications along with the storage capacity. Among those, Box.net is a very interesting example. It gives you access to a slew of free collaboration applications in addition to storage, though it only gives you a paltry 1GB of capacity. Across all the free storage services I've seen, ADrive looks to be delivering the most capacity.

With ADrive, you can upload files, download them, organize them in folders, and share links to stored online content with others. For remote workers, say, putting an open source application together, 50GB should often be enough to get meaningful work done without hurling huge e-mails back-and-forth or bothering with FTP applications.

If you haven't looked into this service, do so. That's especially true if you collaborate with others online.

Do you know of any useful, free services the open source community might like to know about?


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Hi there, I am Arthur Madrid, co-founder of Wixi Inc www.wixi.com

Wixi is a Storage service with web-based desktop and Strong social features.

I definitely think it is possible to store not 50GB BUT 1TB online.

Go to see this Wixi : http://beta.wixi.com/?room=donolsen1155


ask me invitation arthur at wixi.com


The secret of this is NOT UPLOAD but enable people to store what their friends are storing. Wants to know more: www.wixi.com


Wixi enables to store for free 1TB of Media and access it anywhere -))))


Cheers,


Arthur


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Significantly lower in terms of free storage, but Mozy had a similar service. The first 2 Gb were free, but for $5/month, you got unlimited storage too.


The key is to make it easy to do the things you would do with so much free storage - a great backup tool to do full-blown backups. This is something that most people lack, and something that Time Machine has made so easy to do. If PCs had a similar solution, life would be a lot less painful!


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Amazon's S3 is a good way to go. It's only a couple of cents per gig of storage and bandwidth and the one thing you can be sure of is company viability (which could be a big issue with all the other above mentioned options)


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