3 Free Great Places to Store Files Online

If you have files on your computer that you would like to access from another location there are several ways that you can do it. One is that you can burn the files on a CD and take them with you where you go and send them by email and access them there or subscribe to an online File storage website. There are many file storage websites out there, some are free and some you have to pay. Some of the free sites you can grant permission for other people to access them also. With online file storage, this is also a great way to send large files to another computer. Simply upload from one computer then download to the other computer.

XDrive is one place that you can store up to 5GB of files for free. This is a product of AOL, and is password protected. If you want to store more than the 5GB you will be charged. The price for 50GB it is $9.99 a month. You sign up using your AOL/AIM name and password. If you don't have an AIM name you can sign up for aim. This is easy to sign up and use. This is easy to upload your files to. You can choose which folders and files you would like to share with others. With this you can easily share photos and songs with other friends, or back up from your computer for your own personal use. This is a great way to back up the important files that you simply can not replace.

Box.net is another place that allows you to store up to 1GB of files. For the 5 GB of files it would be $7.95 a month. This also has an easy interface, and you can share the files with others. This website allows you to edit documents online if you need to. Again this is password protected. This is easy to use they walk you through step by step on how to upload and use it.

MediaMax is the place that you can upload 25 GB of files for free. This can be videos, photos, movies, or music and office files. These then can be shared with others or accessed from other computers. Of course you can just upload for backups. Now with the free service from MediaMax you can only upload a maximum of 10 MB at a time. That is still a pretty big file. You can get more storage for a monthly service fee. It only takes a few minutes to sign up and begin using.

Any one of these is great and all are password protected. If you are looking for a place to upload big files, or want to have an offsite place to store your photos and files, you many want to check out on of these places.