First, in context you might find this useful. The link below will give you (and me) an extra 500 MB on a free 2GB Dropbox account. http://db.tt/WJJWkX1m Second, does anyone here actually use this kind of software? It seems pretty useful (as a college student, it's more reliable than remembering a flashdrive) but the 2GB which come free seem a bit small to be practical as a real back-up service and more as a filesharing one. Anyway, I'm looking for something to back-up the important information on my old laptop before it croaks (starting with Dropbox) and was wondering if you had any other suggestions.
It may not be what you're looking for, but you can get an external HD quite affordably. Best Buy lists some: 500GB for $60 1 TB for $90 1 TB (another one) for $100
Yea I was looking more for off-site storage. Externals are great, and not particularly expensive anymore as you showed, but I'm looking for something that'll save my most important documents somewhere they'll be available even if my house burns down.
Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, Spider Oak, SugarSync, Box, Ubuntu One... there are others. I have about 40GB of free cloud storage across several of these services.
Even a free Gmail account gives you ten gigs worth. In addition, I think you can expand that for a fee.