Monday, May 22, 2006

Cheap or Free Online Storage

MIT's Technology Review has an article by Wade Roush about cheap or free online storage.

One of the examples is Amazon's S3 storage service which features -

* Pay only for what you use. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost.
* $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used.
* $0.20 per GB of data transferred.

Even if you aren't a web developer it seems like this would be a viable option for storing digital data in a safe off-site area. There are certainly many other ways of doing this, but for convenience and peace of mind having a web server with your data makes sense.

You could scan any photos, kid's drawings, poems, stories - etc. that you want to keep, have Amazon keep them on their server and then you don't have to worry about carrying CD's/DVD's with you when you move, transferring them to your new PC, or having a fire, flood, or other natural disaster wiping out your digital library.

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