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In response to "STIS - does anyone use MS OneDrive online storage or anything about it?" by Meg

Dropbox, Box, Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive... they're all basically just a folder for putting files.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Feb 11 '15, 21:44

Most will behave like just another drive on your computer. Indeed, you can be running them all simultaneously. And some of these services like ODrive will combine them all into one big drive.

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We're looking for something secure and dependable (and cheap) for Archaeological Society files. All of the stuff we have on a variety of home PCs that - Meg Feb 11, 21:53 5
- Any of these services will do. Most offer some space for free. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 22:46 3
  - We can currently get 100gb free on OneDrive for 2 years. From what I can see their price for that size is $1.99/month. So that's within the budget. - Meg Feb 11, 23:00 2
    - honestly, if it's not video or photos, even that much textual content won't add up to much. -- nm - Mop Feb 11, 23:02 1
      - True, and I guess we can hope MS will be as secure and long-lived as we need them to be. - Meg Feb 11, 23:14
- a yahoo group or google group -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 11, 22:43

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