What do you want to store? Bits and bobs or lots of stuff? I use google doc for bits and prices dropbox is useful as it has an iPhone app. - Jo Badge from iPod

How big of files are you thinking about? - Holly Rae, FFer

Hell yes. For me, photos -> flickr, audio -> divshare, video -> youtube/vimeo, PDF's -> Mendeley/scribd and google docs for various other bits 'n bobs. - Graham Steel

SlideShare, SciVee (vids), Scribd (pdfs), Flickr, YouTube, lots of GoogleDocs and Wikispaces will take up to 10Meg misc files - Jean-Claude Bradley

favorites are dropbox (good file sync) box.net (webdav standard support) drop.io (quick, easy) and wuala (free limit is high). specialized storage by file type such as flickr for images or gdocs for docs is also a good option, and there are some utilities that can help synchronize with these services - Mike Chelen

Google docs for documents, Mozy for backup, dropbox for sync across computers - Pedro Beltrao

Junlgedisk for archival, dropbox for "hot" content. - Deepak Singh from iPhone

Jungle disk for big files, documents etc. I also use google docs and dropbox for convenience. - ashish

Ooh - dropbox seems rather handy. Thanks. On Desktop now..... - Graham Steel

Gspace? https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT... - ovigia

Any specific suggestions for podcasts/sharing? - Allan Besselink

I use ADrive for pretty much everything. If sharing, will host things on Slideshare, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, etc. But if it is just for me ... ADrive. Free accounts get something like 50 GB. Podcasts get hosted with Archive.org. - Miss Elle

Allan, I use vanilla S3 for all my podcasts in combination with Cloudfront for edge delivery. - Deepak Singh

Dropbox for a collaborative document share. Wiggio.com for inter-institutional share and collaboration tool. I belong to a group that uses a pogoplug, too, which has been a boon (the trick is where to host it). - Jason Miller

JungleDisk on the Mac - off-site backups of docs + family photos - 'Mummi' Thorisson

Also a Jungle Disk user -- have a workgroup account with all partners and customers having partitions. Use it for backup, transfer of large files (audio, video, lesson packages) to and from internal people and customers. - Brian Sullivan

Dropbox for keeping the contents of a directory sync'd across computers & sharing private pics, Flickr for public pics, slideshare from PPTs and Mendeley for docs. - Mr. Gunn

Thanks so much! Here's a link (though most of you don't need it:-)) that reviews some of these products: http://www.consumersearch.com/online-... -- For me, I am looking to back up everything on 3 computers at home. "Kids" computer used to be mine, and has all the family photos on it -- just 2005 is in excess of 4GB (or so says the flash drive which is full). It seems as though most use a combination of products for different purposes...I hadn't considered that angle. Dropbox looked very easy to use, as does a product called iDrive. - Mickey Schafer

mediafire - ffcode

thanks Mickey you had a good subscriptions list, subscribed to a few of the active folks - ffcode

Miss Elle: ADrive looks kind of cool, FTP can come in handy - Mike Chelen

Mickey: if there is 4gb this year, how much data is there in total? it may be worthwhile to also keep local backups, since 8gb or 16gb memory sticks only cost $20-$30, and external hard disk drives are coming down in price too - Mike Chelen

Mickey - From what it sounds like you want to do, a pogoplug (hardware) might be really great for you. http://www.pogoplug.com - Jason Miller

Thanks, Mike -- that's basically what I was thinking. Maybe a larger GB flash drive for each year, but a combo of external hard drive and online back up for everything. The kids' computer needs ghosting...I'll be able to get Windows 7 for about $12.00 in a few weeks (faculty price) and will likely use it to restore that computer to better functioning. - Mickey Schafer from email

Jason, what a totally cool device! - Mickey Schafer from email

For those who'd still like to explore, the suggestions made here are at http://delicious.com/msscha... -- features to look for seem to be amount of free space (ranges from 1GB to 50GB), share features, file syncing (only a couple do that), upgrade service cost (in all, much less expensive than I expected), mobile apps, and whether there's a desktop component (I don't get this one as much -- some seem to have added a desktop component as a service; others make a deal of the fact no desktop is necessary; still others require the desktop). - Mickey Schafer

it is a mistake to keep you personal dta on servers on web first it is very difficult to delete that data and other there is a possibility that data can be stolen - ffcode

@Jason is there a pogo plug available in UK? - Anna Croft

@AnnaCroft - Not sure. Id' poke around on their site to see. On it, I saw what looked like a portal to twitter, and I saw some German tweets. That would make me hopeful that the product is available outside the US. Please post what you find out. - Jason Miller

Anna -- I've also seen French tweets -- here's the product spec page: http://www.pogoplug.com/meet... -- voltage specs are "Power requirements: 100-240V, 50/60HZ" -- the rest relates to OS, internet, browsers, etc so should cross the ocean just fine. - Mickey Schafer

@Jason/Mickey ace - although I'll probably wait until next year to get one, when I'm in the US ... Update: just read on one of the websites that it will ship to Europe in 2010 ... http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum... - Anna Croft

ffcode: it's important to keep multiple backups on local and remote systems, as well as on several company's servers if possible. a good backup service should include client-side encryption (wuala does for example) and if not then it is worthwhile for users to learn how encrypt data themselves - Mike Chelen

Jason: does pogo plug have much built-in storage or is it best to attach an external drive as well? - Mike Chelen

Mickey: flash drives are great for portability, still external hard disks are the best value for the size, for example 500gb for $100 http://www.newegg.com/Product... though online copies are important since a single drive could get lost or damaged at any time - Mike Chelen