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Data storage units, such as Flash drives, are popular for data pack rats who want to keep their important documents or music with them on the go. However, these mini hard drives can be easily broken, lost or stolen, and often require a USB port, which is not always available. Internet companies like Yahoo (Briefcase) and AOL (My Storage) are answering this problem by providing online data storage facilities on their secure servers. Through this, users can access their files from any internet connected computer. The drawbacks are fees and upload times, even with high-speed connections. Some people have found success using their web e-mail as an information backup, but even a big capacity (2 GB) provider such as Google's Gmail only allows 10 megabytes of data to be transferred per email. Storage services like Xdrive, BigVault, Streamload, Apple's iDisk, Yahoo's Briefcase and AOL's My Storage have the advantage of allowing users to share information with friends, or even the general public. Streamload has the biggest free storage capacity, at 10 gigabytes, but the catch is only 100 megabytes of information is available for download a month.
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