Do you use online storage services?

Haha, you brought up a very valid point. It seems that online storage is still restricted to those who have fast enough internet connection. In fact, depending on the site, even if your internet connection is first, you might not be allowed a fast enough uploading speed for your taste! :P

Urghh... I forgot one thing. I will backup some important files (but the size is under 10MB) in my yahoo email. at least I don't have to worry about when they will shut down their service :-)

Yup, it would depend on how paranoid you are, or rather, how important the documents are. If they are critical, it doesn't hurt to store them in more than a few places.

I would rather use e.g. www.divshare.com . :P Rapidshare is fast? I don't find it rapid when I have to wait 60 sec or so for free downloading. :PP

Kk. :P

I like Rapidshare but not for the delay when we want to download the 2nd file :P

Do consider getting an external hard disk - the capacity is way bigger than a tiny thumbdrive, yet it still affords you that affordability. So store those info (and the programs) you are not going to move in your old hard disk - and save those you want to move (e.g. music and photos) in the new external hard disk. Just a suggestion. ;-)

Considered webshots or flick? I understand both are quite popular among those who store photos online.

For pictures I recommend these sites. Share a picture. http://www.shareapic.net/ref.php?owner=DNatureofDTrain Not only can you store your pictures and upload as many as you want to for free, but you can also hot link to them from anywhere, I also recommend http://www.care2.com they will let you upload 200 pictures any 30 days.. and keep doing so as the months go on.... then email them to yourself in a web account. AND burn them onto a disk.. and if you even have more time, print them out and put them into an album. - DNatureofDTrain

You are right, man. It isn't if your hard drive will fail, but rather when it will fail". For me, I am still relying on backuping to email because what I need to secure is relatively small.

Shankies for picking my answer as best :]

It's hard to imagine how devastating it is for your hard drive to fail until it actually happens. And what you should know is that it's much more than a small inconvenience having to reload your operating system (and drivers, unless yours is proprietary), your applications, your files, and your settings piece by piece upon replacing your hard drive. Years ago, when I was still a bit naive about the danger on the Internet, I downloaded and installed some software I'd wanted off of Kazaa. It was a virus, and it immediately wiped out my MBR. Rather than waste my time with recovery console, I reloaded Windows and started from scratch. It took me a good while before I had everything back the way I wanted it, and I longed for a way to back up and restore everything in a single shot. The answer was Acronis True Image. You might want to look into it. As you know, just like a heart is only good for so many beats, a HDD spindle is only good for so many spins. And it can prove useful in other instances as well. The first time I'd ever backed up my grandma's machine was just a month before the big pandemic of October with SQL Slammer and Stack Bot. It didn't matter how long she was online, or where she went; these suckers would come along and punch right through her firewall. One of the first things IRC Flood did was kill System Restore, so I was stuck with scanning. The first time I tried to disinfect, Windows Logon was crippled, and her OS was inoperable. My grandma keeps everything on her computer, including her Quicken checkbook, and her AnyTime address book. And it just so happens that she misplaced the recovery discs for her system long ago. Had it not been for the DVDs I'd created only a month prior, she would have lost it all.

Murphy's law - things that might happen WILL happen. :P

I am not one of the habitual users of online storage service. I use 4shared.com for keeping files online which i want to share and those are mostly official files. For private reasons I use Gmail Drive, the unused space in Gmail. But i do not use it as a substitute of my backup rather i supplement it. i use a spare HDD to backup my valuable files. Moreover, one cannot upload sensitive or confidential files online for explicit reasons.

Kewl.. so are you sticking to eSnips and Putfile for variety? Or it's hard to decide which is better? :P

I just want to advise you to be careful with yahoo... I have had a few accounts deleted because of inactivity - or rather the accounts were not deleted but deactivated - with all your emails (and thus backups) lost.

I would suggest you encrypt the files with a strong password before uploading confidential documents there.

Guess it is easier for me as I don't have that many things to back up.