Thread: 25 Gb's Of Free Effing Storage

hmm.. this could be very useful

I agree with the

25 GB that's insane. This makes Gmail look like..... hotmail!

Hmmm. Usefulness on a stick.

amazing.

thanks a million

they ripped off live drive's name

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Does anyone need that much?

Nobody needs that much, but we switch to an amount of space we don't need, because we can.

well it comes in handy. my pc crashes a lot so if something serious happens when i have to wipe my hard drive. wehn i get back online again i can go there and get the programs back without going all over the internet.

Woah that's awesome, i just signed up, though it's very unlikely I'll ever need that much. One thing though, for anyone who didn't pay attention, you can host 25gigs, but you can only download 1GB per month.

Originally Posted by megabenman

Nobody needs that much, but we switch to an amount of space we don't need, because we can.
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You think noone needs 25 Gigs?
I have 860 Gigs of Hard Drives right now and about 30 Gigs of external web storage. And you bet I need it!*

* Okay maybe not, but hey, I got it all for free.

read the small print. no files bigger than 25mb. no more than 1 gig downloaded per day.

oh no.... useless.

Hey, haven't seen you in a while, Techboy.
And yeah, that does kind of kill the whole thing. I figured there was a catch somewhere.

RE whoever said nobody needs 25 GB of storage-- My computer has 80 GB stock. That is now FILLED. To the top. Completely. And I have a whole basketload of CDs with burned ISOs and such full of games that I used to keep on my hard drive, but I ran out of space for. Music alone takes up at least 40 gigs of my space, 6 for Windows system files and backups, 10 of pictures and videos (Most of which is taken up by a few DVDs I ripped onto my computer. The Producers, Advent Children, and a few other favorites). Most of what's left is game files, but there's some random utilities and stuff in there, too.

Originally Posted by Techboy

read the small print. no files bigger than 25mb. no more than 1 gig downloaded per day.

oh no.... useless. [/b]

Not really. Think, 1 gig per day is a crap load. And 25 mb is still a pretty huge file. Yeah, you can't hold huge video files, but it'll hold stuff like pictures and flash movies.

Dude, 25 MB is PUNY. A stock photograph is bigger than that. A music video is bigger than that. Even an N64 rom is bigger than that!

I don't trust my stuff with some stupid company. period.

And if you really need to access it online, set up an ftp server. It takes 4 minutes. Plus, you get unlimited transfer and as much space as your harddrive can hold.

Originally Posted by megabenman

Not really. Think, 1 gig per day is a crap load. And 25 mb is still a pretty huge file. Yeah, you can't hold huge video files, but it'll hold stuff like pictures and flash movies.
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You would need 1000s of pictures, and flash games to fill 25GBs. Unless the pictures were .bmp and by the thousands in height and width.

Originally Posted by Tsen

RE whoever said nobody needs 25 GB of storage-- My computer has 80 GB stock. That is now FILLED. To the top. Completely. And I have a whole basketload of CDs with burned ISOs and such full of games that I used to keep on my hard drive, but I ran out of space for. Music alone takes up at least 40 gigs of my space, 6 for Windows system files and backups, 10 of pictures and videos (Most of which is taken up by a few DVDs I ripped onto my computer. The Producers, Advent Children, and a few other favorites). Most of what's left is game files, but there's some random utilities and stuff in there, too.
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Exactly. Know how I ended up with 860 Gigs of Hard Drives?
First of all, I had a pretty nice computer, but it only had an 80 Gig hard drive. After a while, I was constantly on 78, 79, 78, 79 etc Gig. At some point I just couldn&#39;t take deleting my shit and keep burning it as compressed files on DVDs. It was time consuming. I got a 200GB External drive. 6 months later, I got a new PC with 2x 160GB hard drives. So I had 320+200=520GB. After that, my external of 200GB died and my computer&#39;s C:&#092; drive crashed. I had some problems, and ended up losing all the data I ever had. I could also just throw away one of the crashed hard drives because it had permanent hardware failures (it kinda had that since the beginning, it just got worse and worse). The external being dead, I brought it to the PC store for repairs, and they told me Maxtor doesn&#39;t do repairs. As long as it was <2 years old, Maxtor would just send me a new hard drive. I wasn&#39;t sure if it was less than 2 years old though, because I got it when I had my old PC, and my new PC was over a year old. Me being unsure if I&#39;d get a new drive, I explained the problem to my mom, and being the nice person she is, she chipped in for a new hard drive. Eventually I bought a 500GB external [Maxtor] hard disk. Then Maxtor sent me a 300GB hard disk, because that was worth about €200 (that&#39;s how much the 200GB external cost me back then). So my mom, also having that same 200GB external that died, kinda demanded I gave her the 300GB Maxtor sent me, and I could have her 200GB (to compensate for the chip-in on the 500GB).

So, 160 + 500 + 200 = 860GB.

Originally Posted by Tsen

I don&#39;t trust my stuff with some stupid company. period.

And if you really need to access it online, set up an ftp server. It takes 4 minutes. Plus, you get unlimited transfer and as much space as your harddrive can hold.
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Stupid company? AMD&#33; AMD MAN, AMD&#33;
But I do agree.

Originally Posted by Tsen

You would need 1000s of pictures, and flash games to fill 25GBs. Unless the pictures were .bmp and by the thousands in height and width.
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Yeah, but if you only want pictures, you could just as well burn them in batches on DVDs.
It&#39;s faster, you have something physical to lose, and there&#39;s no uploading/downloading times. Period.

Originally Posted by Techboy

read the small print. no files bigger than 25mb. no more than 1 gig downloaded per day.

oh no.... useless.
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It&#39;s per day? I thought it was per month. I think the no files about 25mb is for filesharing, not for your own personal use though.

I thought it was a really good deal too until the 25 MB file size limit part. This means that 25GB is basically meaningless, because who would host 25GB of word documents and pictures? It&#39;s part of their original plan probably, offer 25GB but set a very low file size limit so no one will actually use even a fraction of their allowed space.

Originally Posted by Squall

I thought it was a really good deal too until the 25 MB file size limit part. This means that 25GB is basically meaningless, because who would host 25GB of word documents and pictures? It&#39;s part of their original plan probably, offer 25GB but set a very low file size limit so no one will actually use even a fraction of their allowed space.
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Mmmm&#39;yes. Because they offer 25Gigs of space, it will give them a good name.. But in all truth, hardly any space is used. So it&#39;s a win win situation ... well, for AMD. For the users, it&#39;s useless.

Oh no&#33; It&#39;s all a huge conspiracy&#33;