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Any recommendations for good online file storage? Cheap as possible, even free. Don't really know where to start.

DH (Aka The Geek) was rambling on telling me about this last night. When he stops snoring / gets woken up by the dcs I'll ask him and report back as he appears to know quite a bit.

Dropbox is good. You get some free storage or you can upgrade if you need extra.

Just checked- 2gb of free space.
You can also set up shared folders which can be useful. There's an iPhone app as well.

A friend of mine recommended Backblaze to me - she's in the UK so paying in GBP isn't an issue.

With Google Docs you get 1GB of free storage for mostly officey-type files if that's what you're wanting to store. There's also iCloud (not just for Macs) and Dropbox - comparison article here.

It'll be mostly for photos and Photoshop pics with a few office type docs thrown in if that makes a difference.

Is it for commercial purposes rather than home? I'm just wondering how critical it would be to be able to get at the photos 24*7.

Oh no it's mostly really for back up storage on our pc although cross platform would be a nice to have as I Lso have an iPhone.

Google would be your friend, then. Upload your photos to Picasa, docs to Google docs and use your Gmail storage (7gb!!)

I email stuff to myself, then Google helpfully keeps it on their servers

Soory, link

I'm not sure I'd keep photos in the Cloud, just because the file sizes are so huge. Dunno, I think I'd be tempted to keep good (but not mega) quality pics online and back up the jumbo files locally - on the offchance I want to blow one of them up to 'decorate side of house' size But yes, another recommendation for Picasa, a great photo management program.

I use Dropbox, with Google Docs for backup.

I tend to use Flickr for my photos.