A-Drive 50 gigs Free Online Storage

Thanks, Glen! 50 gigs is a nice freebie! 

Having additional storage for data is good, especially for back ups but I'm not sure I would feel safe doing it where it is out of my control. 

Getting addtional storgae is not really that expensive anymore and you can choose from internal to external drives.

Just signed up. Thanks for the tip, Glen!

Good tip there Glen, thanks!! 

The free one sounds good...

Holy Hard Drive Geek-Man (Note NOT the OP)

Premium 1TB: $131.95/month or $1,319.50/year  Are they ate up or what you can buy a NEW 1TB HDD for less than they want for one month not to mention

You might even be able to get a 2TB HDD at or a little more the one month...  

I thought the same thing, but that's why I signed up for the free one. I don't know of anyone in their right mind that would pay that.

Oh wow! haha I didn't notice that "premium" package. No one would ever pay that much! That's just ridiculous! haha 

The aDrive is for a lot of people that share files. If you are a large company that you have download links to software the pro is the way to go. Its outsourcing.

The one thing about sharing files on aDrive is the almost direct link but the off side is those files are only shared for 30 days on a free account and will have to be re-linked every 30 days.

I'll keep my SkyDrive it's free but only 25GB but then again I have 4 E-mails with MSN/HotMail/Live

and I can tell anyone the link and it's good till I remove said link. and Can give them/or one access to upload to it to..

Does anyone Know what MSN stands for  is it MicroSoft Nagging  or Net

Money Spent Needlessly?

Meet Someone Nice?

I wonder how long it will take before some moron starts filling his 50 gigs with pirated games and movies lol?

Scenario:

"Kid A" comes home from school. Logs in to his free 50 gigs and uploads all the games he downloaded via torrent the night before. He emails the account and pass to his buddy, "Kid B", who logs on and grabs those games, then changes the pass and gives it to another buddy, "Kid C", or he just leaves the pass what it is and hands it out to "D-E-F-G", you get the idea. Thanks for the free piracy internet!!!

Than again these guys probably check to make sure pirated stuff isn't being uploaded, right?

they say they do and will cut you off and send the info with of the pirated stuff to the cops.

I read on their aDrive site that they have the right to look in your storage space any time for any reason

Which is exactly why I wouldn't use something like this. What I store somewhere should be my business. By storing files on someone else's hardware you give them the legal right to browse through it any time they want. While I agree with that and agree with it being used to fight Piracy, what's to stop one of their disgruntled or dishonest employees from browsing through any financial files someone might put in there because they think it's "secure" ? Because they say they won't? RofL....Because someone might try to sue them if their bank account info gets stolen because they chose to store it on a online website? Hahaha...both of those cases would get laughed out of court and the person who put their bank account info in there would be blamed for putting his or her bank account info there in the first place.

It's a very handy service, don't get me wrong. I think it's really cool the site/company would do something like that for free. Sites like this can be used for backing up important files that you don't want to get lost or deleted by accident or want to have duplicates of, but I'd highly recommend NOT putting any "sensitive information" onto any site like that. This leads to a slight problem. Why even use it if you can't keep sensitive information there safely? What about the customers privacy? Privacy becomes irrelevant once you upload something to a companies hardware. People should keep that in mind.

One word....encryption.

Good point! I didn't think of that honestly as I wouldn't think it would be necessary on a "secure" server. Most normal uses don't think about it either I would think. When I say normal I'm thinking about some little old lady who would want to use it to save pictures or old financial records or medical records or something. Then again I also don't see there being a lot of users like that anyway.

I've got it! MassiveSpyNetwork

I would NEVER use or rely on a website for file/data storage.

Never.

Ever.

Well isn't that easy for a Stardock employee to say. 

I suppose all us modders should use our own computers to host mods?

EDIT: Isn't Impulse a website for data storage, HOLY CRAP am I glad I bought physical media.

I am 10,000 miles away from Michigan so any connection with Stardock is about as remote as it can get....;p

The reality is that no online reliance on data accessibility is totally within your OWN control.

If a site/host/web-based storage 'system' goes down...or goes bust totally....you are hosed.

Storage [as in data/backup/whatever] should be on STABLE physical media.

The Internet and its accessibility is guaranteed NOT to be stable.

We have todays winner of The Understatement of the Day Award.

I was going to e-mail it to you but my internet was down.     

You are correct that relying alone on an external server is a bad idea. If I do a lot of work, it is backed up about as much as you can get. 2 hard drives, 1 for automatic backups, 2 external mirrors for sharing my work and I will admit I should burn more but the chance that the internet fails and my 2 hard drives is like 1,000,000 to 1.

aDrive is great spot for hosting mods and is a lot more popular that WinCustomize. Why is that?

My guess would be because WinCustomize is about skinning, not popularity.   This ain't Twitter, it's WC.....Home of the few, the proud, the skinners!

Its also supposed to be where Sins mods were supposed to be hosted. There is even a big upload button that nobody uses. 

EDIT: Ya Im old. I dont even know what a skinner is.   Oh ya Buffalo.

Whats a Twitter? Home for Twits?

That's EXACTLY Right!!! See, you're not as old as you thought