Yesterday there was a special offer posted at CNET on Bitcasa cloud storage -- unlimited cloud storage for $49 your first year ($99 thereafter) using promo code BETATHANKS -- but I'm a cheapskate and would rather not pay to store anything. Frankly, I'm also a bit wary of newish companies without a track record, although if I had a small business with lots of archival needs, I'd jump on this.
In that CNET post, someone mentioned that Box.com (formerly Box.net) was temporarily offering free 25GB cloud storage accounts. I decided to jump on that offer, because Box has been around for a few years now, and 25GB is a nice chunk of free storage which would allow me to store valuable files in the cloud in case of fire, etc.
The only problem now, is the amount of time it's taking to upload (sync) folders. I can easily fill up the 25GB, so I also had to be judicious in which folders to sync for backups in case of emergency. Of course, in my 20 years of owning computers, I've only once had to deal with a corrupted hard drive.
I can imagine a day when the concept of buying external storage devices or writing data to an optical disc like a DVD or Blu-Ray, will be antiquated, all replaced by the cloud. Maybe 2020?
Update: Act fast, and you can get 50!!! GB for free!
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