Online Storage..which one to use?

[harsaphes]

So once again im thinking about online storage..photos, music, docs ect.
It seems in researching everyone most of the popular sites are actually a "backup" of your files, but not a "storage" of your files, meaning if you delete the files off of your computer they are deleted on the storage, thou you are given a chance to get them back before they are gone.
So the question is, Is there an actually online storage company?

 

[Impulse]

http://skydrive.live.com/

http://www.getdropbox.com/install#backup

 

[harsaphes]

Dropbox is NOT a remote storage service according to them.

 

[harsaphes]

Actually conflicting information on this....I lifted this post from them..

) if you're doing a reformat you can actually just go ahead and do it, since the dropbox service won't be running when you nuke everything on the drive. the entry for that computer will stay on the web interface's client list, you can just click unlink whenever, to get rid of it.

2) for now revision history and deleted files are stored indefinitely, this behaviour is subject to change in the future, and may or may not remain the same.

See item two...So in theory if they store your deleted files indefinitely the service is a storage site.

 

[harsaphes]

Just got this response ....

Sell item #2..if this is the case than in effect the service is storage site..no?

No it isn't, because as noted the behaviour of deleted files and revisions is subject to change in the future, and if people abuse it by uploading a ton of files, deleting them locally and relying on the recovery feature, then Dropbox will remove or restrict the feature.