Online Storage Solutions

There are two new sites I found that offer large amounts of storage online. Mediamax and AOL's XDrive. AOL's purchase of xdrive.com features 5 GB of free online storage space. You can go to their site and log on with your AOL or AOL AIM screen name, or even create a new user name. So how can they give you free storage, well of course advertisements. They also offer a 50GB plan which is $9.95 per month or $99.95 yearly. Also some neat features it has is a built in personally music player, some photo features and allows you to setup automatic backups. XDrive also features a down loadable desktop application which allow your PC to map to it (like a network drive). A question that is posed is, is your data safe with AOL with you files? (referring back to AOL publicizing what users searched on their AOL search engine)

XDrive Online File Manager

Uploading a file

Mediamax also has similar functionality to XDrive but offers a whopping 25 GB's for free. It does have a few constraints, you can only download or share 1 GB/month and send files up to only 25 MB in size. They also have paid services. For 4.99/month (or 44.95 annually) you get 100GB of online storage, download/share 10GB/month and the ability to send files of any size. The Elite Plan gives you 250 GB and download/share 25 GB/month, for 9.95 month (or 89.95 annually). The last play they offer is Professional, which is 29.95 monthly (289.95 annually). This plan gives you 1 Terabyte (1000GB). It also is packaged with video playback, photo viewing, and built in music player.MediaMax File Manager

You can always settle for a personal hard drive and share it on your network and have available remotely, but to avoid that hassle these are free solutions to also consider. XDrive didn't mention any download/sharing restrictions. I liked XDrive's interface better too, but you can't go wrong with MediaMax's 25GB of space.