Microsoft's free online storage service, Skydrive, has made a stratospheric leap (relatively). When I last wrote about Skydrive last May, they had just moved up from a small, but useful 500 megabytes to 5 gigabytes. That space allowable has been bumped up by a factor of five ... it's now 25 gigabytes of space, and still free. While Google's much whispered about online storage service has never materialized, Microsoft has jumped further ahead in this niche.
As I said before, the real problem with online storage is really transfer rates. I just purchased a 500 gigabyte external drive with both USB and Firewire connectors for $90 cheap ... compared to these external drives, waiting for a gigabyte of data to upload to online storage would be like the proverbial "watching the grass grow." The watchwords for online storage are still: "Patience, Grasshopper."
Friday, December 26, 2008
Skydrive Goes Higher Yet
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