Cloud Storage Options
I have a drive that is filling up full of photos and short video clips (over 300Gig right now). I want to move these to an external drive but also have that external drive backed up. It might be nice to have a service that would allow me to backup some of my other computers, and access files from other devices, and share folders with other people or the public. This list below is in no way a comprehensive or complete examination of the options but it does give a good price comparison. My ISP (iiNet) and the ponderous national ISP (BigPong), both over charge by a long shot, however the price range of other services varies significantly.
| Cost/year | Storage | Type | Inc Ext HD | Nr Computers | Share | Notes |
| BackBlaze | $60 | Unlimited | Sync only | Yes | 1 | No | Includes external drives! |
| Box Net | $180 | 500Gig | drag drop + sync | | Unlimited | | |
| Carbonite | $72 | Unlimited | Sync only | No | 1 | | Australian servers |
| Dropbox | $240 | 100Gig | Sync only |
No | Unlimited |
Yes | |
| iDrive | $180 | 500Gig | Sync + ?archive? | | 5 | | |
| LiveDrive | $160 | 2000Gig | Sync + archive | | Unlimited | Yes | Briefcase |
| LiveDrive | $96 | Unlimited | Sync only | Yes | Unlimited | Yes | Backup, +$1.50 per extra computer |
| MediaFire | | | | | | | Note really a backup service but a sharing service |
| MozyHome | $120 | 125Gig | | | 3 | | |
| MyOtherDrive | $110 | 500Gig | Sync + archive | Yes | Unlimited | Yes | |
| SafeCopy | $70 | 300Gig | Sync + archive | | Unlimited | | |
| SkyDrive | free | 25Gig | no tools so far | | Unlimited | | Microsoft Windows Live, 25Gig free |
| SugarSync | $400 | 500Gig | | | | | |
| ElephantDrive | $200 | 500Gig | Sync + archive | | 5 | | Dodgy website |
| KeepIt | $96 | Unlimited | ?Sync | No | 1? | | |
| SpiderOak | $460 | 400Gig | Sync + archive | Yes | Unlimited | | $100 for 100Gig + $10 per month extra 100Gig |
| MyPCBackup | $60?? | Unlimited | Sync only | | | | Dodgy website does not properly state pricing |
| iCloud | $100 | 50Gig | | | | | Bah |