Online Storage Solutions for Home Users?

A not-so-anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "Like many Slashdot readers, I have accumulated a lot of data over the years. Emails, documents, 'media' etc. Although I try to keep up with backups, I still feel I need some other place where I could dump my data without worrying about hard drive crashes and other problems. Googling reveals that there is a whole slew of online storage providers. But most are around $10 a month with a couple of gigs of space. So what does Slashdot recommend for sites that offer plenty of storage and fit the budget of a poor home user?"

Comments

Aready Covered

[jakel2k]

Okay this issue has been cover several times in slashdot. Solutions that have been suggested:

1. Burn to CDs
2. Burn to DVDs
3. Buy more HDDs and HDD caddies
4. Get Tape backups
5. Upload compressed and encrypted as "Olsen Twins and Britney Spears Sex Tapes.avi
6. Learn to delete files

Re:Just use a USB drive...

[Gangis]

For data encryption and large size, you could go for the Sony GigaVault, with built in encryption and 20 or 40 gigs of space. It's USB 2.0 compatible.

Re:Get an external hardrive

[shadowbearer]

The risk isn't even in the same ballpark, my friend. It's not just the fire risk, either; theft, company, carelessness.... come on, now, you know that's a BS argument (at least I hope you do! ;)

If what you were thinking were true, than people would trust their wills and other important paper/legal info to friends more than they would a vault, eh? After all, banks aren't rich enough to *afford* really decent protection...are they...

Comparing a home fire safe (even an expensive one) to a typical bank vault is like comparing a home-built bomb shelter to Cheyenne Mountain.

(concrete and steel isolated by enormously thick security doors is quite a bit safer than a couple inches of steel that can be exposed directly to a fire)

Sheese.

SB