With the prices of storage devices like USB Flash Drives and HDDs dropping while their capacity is ever increasing, the prospect of having your data saved online may seem impractical. Just buy storage and save or back-up all your data in there, or just burn 'em to a CD for a no fuss solution. But what about critical data that you want to access wherever you go, or data that you might want to share with your team or group?
Victor Loh at ExtremeTech has written a nice rebuttal, and it is an interesting topic most especially with Google speculated to release an online storage service that may or may not integrate with GMail and Writely. Currently there are many who offer online storage service, and most of them are free for the first few hundred MBs. I'm currently using Openomy, which gives you 1 GB of storage space, gives you tagging functions and allows you to use their service and integrate it with other applications through their API. I'm reserving a list of services for a future post, but one can easily obtain information on online file storage by googling it.
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