Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Company offers 25gb of free online storage
Before the tech bubble burst plenty of companies were offering online storage for free. At that time companies like Xdrive were only offering measly megabytes for gratis. Now, six years later with drive storage capacity per disc outpacing Moore’s law a company like Streamload can offer 25gb of storage for free.
Now they do seem to have a viable business plan that seems like a real good deal for customers as well. They offer the basic 25gb with a monthly 100mb download for free but you can trade up to plans that offer higher monthly downloads with unlimited storage for very reasonable rates. Considering I recently paid $120 for a 300gb Maxtor drive plus an additional $60 for a hard drive enclosure paying $100 a year for up to 300gb of annual download seems like a pretty good deal. Plus you save the time and hassle of formatting the drive and other headaches like discovering the drive you purchased is unstable with the enclosure thus losing your backup after two weeks (which is what happened to me).
Worth checking out.