Up in the Sky
Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:36
Free cloud storage anyone?
I’ve only being able to find a maximum of 10GB for free up until now, mostly a 50/50 split of synchronised media/other data from the likes of Humyo and had settled on the 2GB allocation from the wonderful people at Dropbox, however a possible alternative seems to have sprung up from a rather controversial source, the monolithic IT giant themselves Microsoft who are offering a free 25GB ‘Skydrive‘ to all and sundry.
Too Much Green aims to highlight cost effective alternatives from the stable world of open standards and see no reason at all for running an expensive virus prone Microsoft operating system on your desktop PC merely to access the ever increasing world of browser based cloud apps when there’s Ubuntu to choose from, it’s a no brainer, however you can’t ignore a free 25GB of cloud storage, you just can’t, so I haven’t, hell has frozen over and I now have a Windows Live ID….
So what’s it like to use? Well, not ideal unfortunately, it’s certainly no FTP offering, you can’t upload folders and there’s a 50MB limit on file sizes, good effort, close – but no cigar I’m afraid, I’ll see how it pans out but as my main requirement for cloud storage is for use as an archive software library I can’t see it being much use above my existing DropBox space.
Will I EVER manage to upload my 2.3GBG Adobe CS3 .DMG? I must admit it’s not looking promising.
Oli says:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Ughh. 50Mb limit per file, no folders and only five uploads at once? Well done Microsoft: You’ve going to beat the competition into submission with that offering ;o)
I’m beginning to think a VPS (with, say 20Gb of storage) would be the solution to all my problems ;o)
Not cheap though.
richbos says:
April 16th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Indeed mate, all I want to do is upload my .DMG’s (*sniff*), 10GB would *just* do me but my provider charges $12 per GB per year and I’m far too tight to pay that princely sum.
I did have a nice Dell server set up at home many moons ago with a DynamicDNS stylie fixed IP and port forwarding through the router, and it worked OK until it got hacked into (It was a Server 2003 box, say no more). I’d be on the case again with a Linux box were I actually living somewhere, hand luggage is a bit limiting, even the MacBook Air feels bulky some days.