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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?"
It sounds like your main goal is offsite backup. Unless you have a very fast network connection, serious multi-gigabyte backups online just don't make sense. Buy a USB hard drive and periodically backup your data to it, then leave it at a friend's house. If you don't trust your friend, encrypt the data first. Do the above every month or two and you are set. Catastrophic failures don't occur that often so a low frequency offsite backup solution like this works well and is relatively inexpensive.