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Free Online Storage war is heating up
Jan 16 2005-When Google came out with their Gmail and the 1 gig of storage, I thought that there had to be a catch. But there wasn't. Now Streamload is offering 10 gigs of storage online for free! Company says it will appeal to many who have large collections of photographs or mp3's.
This may have once been just for techies, or file swappers, but nowadays, everybody has a blog, or a huge collection of files that they would like to keep, this may be just that solution. The only catch is, come on you knew there had to be one, you can only download 100 megs a month and can only upload 100 megs at a time. So, this is definately not useful for file swappers, website owners, but it's ideal if you would like a backup of some of your files. But, for only 10 dollars a month, you can get looser restrictions.
Only reason I can see myself using a service such as this would be to store some mp3's, but, if you stored 10 gigs of mp3's there, it would take you 100 months to get them all back at 100 megs a month. Over 8 years. Hehe. Glad I don't need it, once I get the next pc up, we'll have almost 1.5 terabytes available locally.
Related articles from other news sites:
Company offers 10GB of Net storage, for free A company called Streamload is offering consumers a free 10 gigabyte online storage locker for multimedia files, potentially raising the stakes for larger companies such as Yahoo and America Online.
AOL testing free 100MB storage locker America Online on Friday confirmed that it plans to offer its subscribers 100MB of memory for storing digital files such as music, photos and documents.
Called the service My Storage, AOL will give a 100MB digital locker to every subscriber and up to seven additional screen names that each account holder can create. Because the locker is accessible on the Web, subscribers will be able to retrieve files using any Web-enabled device. AOL will allow subscribers to place files in public storage and share with other users.
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