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If you haven't looked into some of the good, free deals offered by online storage vendors, you really should. Prices for storage itself have fallen dramatically in recent years, and online storage providers often get free users to upgrade to paid plans, so the no-cost deals they offer are often pretty attractive. I use ADrive, which provides a whopping 50GB of storage for free. If you happen to use, say, a netbook with limited storage or an older computer with limited local storage, the extra storage can really help. Today, on JKOnTheRun, there is a good item up on ZumoDrive, which has recently upgraded many of its services. It only provides a measly 1GB of online storage for free, but the paid plans for more storage are very reasonable. Among the new additions to the service is a Linux client (in alpha for now), which Linux users and cross-platform users may welcome.

Here at OStatic, we concentrate on open source applications, operating systems, 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. One reason I thought I'd post this is that a colleague of mine--a well-known web designer--pinged me to ask where he could get the most free online storage, and he was sure that the holy grail was XDrive.