Free online storage

[BillySugger]

Are sites such as http://www.adrive.com/ safe to use ?Always a bit wary of anything that's free . If so is there one anyone would recommend ?
I know about external hard drives & how cheap they are these days , I'm just looking at other possibilities .

[danielcarter]

I use SnapDrive.com

It has alot of storage space and bandwidth too.
For security reasons they only allow certain file types to be uploaded to your account but its a massive range from .doc to .fla.

And if you have something you just need to backup and its not an allowed filetype then just put it into a ZIP folder and upload that :)

You get about 2GB space for free but to be honest I have more than one account just incase.

[BillySugger]

Thanks but 2GB not nearly enough

[ChuckFickens]

I would not use any online backup service for storing confidential data, especially not a free one.

Adrive rings a couple of alarm bells with me too for other reasons.

it's a relatively new company, having only been about around a year or so, this means that, as a new internet company, there is a pretty good chance that the business will fail and be closed down and that's your backup/data gone if that happens.

They have no actual postal address or phone number for contacting them on their website (that I can see with a quick look) which would always worry me when dealing with any internet service.

And on top of that consider speed... when backing up data to them it is not your normal internet (download) speed that will be used... it's your upload speed, which most people have under 1Mbit a second, so to transfer any useful amount of data to them is going to take ages (I uploaded 1gb of data to a friend last week.. it took about 7hours!)

Get your self a external hard drive, and also make CD or DVD backups of anything you really do want to make sure is safe would be my advice.