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Good for writers. Has autosave. Excellent uptime. And google GDRIVE for internet file storage.

Others who have file storage.
http://xdrive.com/
http://mozy.com/#

Why not just encrypt your nefarious stuff and upload it to something like http://www.xdrive.com/ and then download it when you're wherever you intend to do your evil deeds?

All this is is an opportunity to buy extra space for GMail/Picassa/etc. beyond what you already get on their servers for free. It is not an online storage service like Xdrive, but an equivalent to buying Hotmail Plus.

Agreed, Xdrive will give you 50G of storage space for $120/year.

http://www.xdrive.com/additional_storage.jsp

Xdrive is what you're looking for. It's got 5GB just for you with no attachment limit.

I'm a developer at Xdrive, we develop the freaking service on MacBook Pro's, but we can't get an OS X client into the feature list. With Apple poised to make major gains against Microsoft re: Vista, I'm floored that we don't consider an OS X client a strategic feature.

Please, please, bitch and moan about it. Louder. Your voices count for more than mine.

Grrr... I was going to provide a link to the community forums website (from http://www.xdrive.com/support), but that's broken at the moment. Give it a day or so and then please try again. Lots of us want an OS X client. It will only happen if Xdrive/AOL management can be convinced of the need.

(AC because attaching my name to this might be a CLM)

Better article here.

The actual draft legislation hasn't even been released, yet alone enacted, so there are a lot of grey areas.

Format shifting is allowed, but in effect it's only for CDs/vinyl/audio cassettes. They say they'll be monitoring the situation with DVDs, so that might be legalised in a year or two (i.e., once all the cool kids are already routinely watching copies on their iPod Videos the way they play CDs now). The Q&A document explicitly says that software is excluded, so you're out of luck if you want to transfer those Apple II programs off a type of media that hasn't been made in a decade. We also don't yet know precisely what is included under "format shift": they've said that you can't just make a backup copy of a CD to another CD, say, but not whether that includes ISO disc images or other lossless transcoding.

There are various other copyright problems right now which, going by their talking points, it doesn't address -- things like search engine image thumbnails and the Google Library project.

Time shifting is allowed, but you can only watch the program once -- no taping shows to keep. A family of five can't watch a taped program at different times. That particular idiocy is completely unenforceable, but puts us right back where we were before in terms of half the country routinely committing violations.

They say that uploading your format-shifted music to the internet will be illegal, but without enough details to say whether that includes online backup/storage/search services like Xdrive or Google Desktop Search. Again, we'll have to wait for the legislation to see.

The nastiest thing is that they're making it easier for copyright holders to sue, specifically by granting the courts powers to impose greater fines and penalties on infringers. I fully expect a wave of lawsuits from ARIA against grandmothers who don't own computers, etc., just as in the US. Bad news.

So in other words, it's actually like Xdrive, the company that started it in the dot-bomb boom.

http://www.xdrive.com/

Also, I can't wait for Palm to take them to court because Live Drive sounds an awful lot like LifeDrive.

http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lif edrive/

We've used xdrive in the past, they're decent I guess

http://www.xdrive.com/

There already are.

If you figure that most people's data is under a gig. We're not talking about system images here, just the "my documents folder" and it's ilk. Less than a hundred megs/month with most people, including photographs, unless they really love their mpeg home movies.

With decent broadband and some system to do the backups during non-peak hours, you can easily do tens gigabytes a month. Will it cost? Yes, but it's like doing your own car repairs. Unless you have a garage equiped like the shop, they can do it quicker and easier than you. Is it worth paying $20 a month for not having to worry about backups for a couple hours a month, would you seriously consider it at $20/year?

2nd paid advert for "web backup" on google

Not withing your price range, but still: http://xdrive.com/.

I'm planning to try it out and see how well their new driver works (which actually _does_ create an additional drive) when putting one giant encrypted file on there (like PGPDisk, but then probably BestCrypt)

Also, I *know* there was another "freebie" website a couple of years ago that did something very similar that allowed you to connect to their storage via a drive icon in My Computer on Windows.

You may be referring to Xdrive, but they turned pay some time ago. $10/month/5 GB.

You could always email it to your 1Gb google mail account. Or here http://www.iomega.com/istorage/ or here http://www.xdrive.com/ Sure there are some free versions available too, try here http://www.google.com/. Or sign up for a free trial, and hope it's all over in a couple of weeks ;)

You have many options in this situation other then an online backup:

*Buy another HardDrive and occasionally sync the two with Norton Ghost or something similar.
*Buy a Zip Drive and and a few 750mb Zip Disks, and split the file(s) to fit the Disks.
*Do the Same as above, but with a tape drive.
*Maybe set up something with a Friend, you each give each other FTP access to a folder on your server, and you can upload to each other's computers.

If you really want to use an online backup provider, try XDrive. Pretty Good, 500mb for $10.

AndrewM

When you sign up for an account, you choose how much space you want...if you want more after that, you can buy more from inside your account. There's a 15-day free trial.

Pretty easy too; open a browser into your xdrive account and click/drag or use the file selection dialog after you hit the "Upload" button. There's a "high security" (ssl) option and they host it all in datacenters with redundant OC-192's and backup power generators, etc. Take a look at it at least - its a great way to send each other huge files, etc.

What is the kid researching data storage technology doing in the library in the first place? The Net would have much more up to date information than a library would. A quick search on Google reveals almost 6 million results for "data storage technology". While, admittedly, many of the are for online storage services such as XDrive, or manufacturers such as Seagate or APS Tech, there are still quite a few diamonds, such as a webpage about IBM's Millipede storage technology, a Network Computing article on storage disasters, a Bell Labs press release on holographic data storage, etc.

There's just no way a library would buy such obscure and expensive books on data storage technologies when they could be buying children's books, novels, and reference books, which have far wider appeal than stuff on data storage technologies. Anyway, isn't this what the Net's for? To get otherwise obscure, expensive information cheaply and efficiently?

Be wary of smaller companies. I was using x-drive to store a few valuable files like pictures and financials and I didn't get the emails that said that if you don't pay then your files will be gone. I'm using the 30 Mb free at http://briefcase.yahoo.com/ for now, although I bet they'll start charging soon.

Well.. as the hard drive is a backup device and not a primary device... it should be replacable.. as all backup media are. If you require a more permanent storage solution, go for a web based solution: http://www.xdrive.com

They plan to make money off of Eazel Online Storage and Eazel Software Catalog.

Eazel Online Storage

This is similar to the technology made popular by X-drive that allows users to create a virtual drive that actual exists on a remote server. The problem with this technology is that it is expensive for the service provider (hard drive space and bandwidth) and from what I've seen from the online file storage market is that a lot of them (e.g. X-drive) have given up on the consumer market because of economies of scale and will instead try to capture the business market. Online file storage seems to be at best a break-even part of teh business instead of one that will generate enough profits to cover the cost of software development.

Eazel Software Catalog

This seems similar to RedHat's download page, where one can obtain software from a web interface instead of via FTP. One hopes that they also plan to have something like RedHat's up2date or Debian's apt-get to distinguish themselves, if not then it isn't worth signing up for. Again, I don't see this as a great profit generator.

Yet another removable storage medium. Why?? There is hardly a computer anywhere that isn't connected to the Internet, and with websites like Driveway and Xdrive which allow you to store your files for free on their servers and access them from any computer with a web browser, who needs disks?

Am I the only one who thinks disks are dead?

I hope I'm not trolling here, but has anyone pointed out some of the services like IDrive, XDrive, or one of the other web-based storage solutions. I work for a major university that has their own IDrive site that is administered and backed up by IDrive and it is absolutely wonderful! If you're a totally Windows shop, XDrive is good because you can install their software and the student/faculty/staff's remote storage will be mapped as the X: Drive on the system. The best thing about this... no media to carry around, you don't have to worry about backups (like with network storage you host), and everyone can access it from any computer including their home computers.

I also work at a college and face problem of students(and faculty) losing stuff on floppies. My standard response is to send them to a free internet storage site. The files would then be available anywhere/any time. I recommend any of the following sites:
X-Drive
Student Drive
I-Drive
Driveway

You're absolutely right, someone should mirror This

If anyone has a new version, please put it up somewhere 0.05 is here

Gee thanks for informing our lowly slashdotters about the INTERNET Is IE W3E standards compliant? NO ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, is mozilla YES!!!

Does Java, DHTML or XML currently work perfectly in Mozilla or are there sites being written specifically targetted at Mozilla's advanced features.? My point was that several slashdotters due to the fact that they use Netscape or Mozilla are missing out on sites that are beginning to offer more and more advanced functionality. The applications being ported at the company's I worked for are an example. Frankly I don't know about here and now but as at 1 month ago Mozilla couldn't handle ECMAscript so simple things like retrieving MP3s from my online locker at Xdrive here impossible. So if you are using Mozilla or Netscape (especially on *nix which I do) a lot of the power of 4th generation browsers and HTML 4.0 is lost on you, thus you'll think that all a browser does is display static HTML pages like the post I responded to does instead of realizing that they do so much more.

Now that I have thought about it, once Mozilla is complete it will be adopted as the browser of choice by AOL. This will instantly make it a contender in the browser wars. After all, if companies are ready to create AOL specific websites and get in on the AOL keyword system, why shouldn't they start coding aimed at Mozilla once AOL adopts it. Maybe Jim Clark has nothing to worry about, of course now we have we'll have a browser controlled by a company that has a monopoly on content and user software for half the Net users in America and another owned by a company that will be trying to create such a monopoly. This will be interesting...

I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.

As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.

The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.

And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...

O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.

The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.

All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.

/nutt

I've been using Workspot for almost 3 months now, and its great.

As a student in an NT school, i'll often set IE to full screen and code away on some perl scripts.

The coolest thing about workspot is the fact that it offers the whole free storage thing too. Now some of you may think this is old news (X drive, etc), but to all the geeks out there, you can access this storage space via a Palm VII app! Basically, Its a wireless storage space like that.

And you also get free web hosting @ http://www.workspot.net/~username. With CGI! Mmmmm...

O ya, and the KDE kiks ass too. But don't try to run it in Netscape/MacOS. *crash*.

The only constraint has been bandwidth. The coolness loses its touch when the menu's are jerkin around on a 56k.

All in all, a perfect OS gateway for those with network access to the internet.

/nutt

most likely services like xdrive will be used for storage we want to keep. even now this is safer than keeping it on your local drive because they handle all the backup and if your local drive crashes your S.O.L..

"The lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths."

Ok, there is now a mirror at Xdrive I dunno if it'll work...maybe, hehe

-Davidu