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What are the existing online storage solutions that provide:

  • unlimited storage
  • automatic backup
  • and allow for an unlimited number of computers (use not tied to a single computer)?

There are several existing questions on this site related to online storage solutions, but none that is specifically targeted to what I want, so I thought I'd ask the question.

This Wikipedia article lists some of them, are there others?
How do they compare in terms of price, feature set and ease of use?

Update: JungleDisk looks promising, anyone have experience with it?

Update 2: These solutions all seem to fit the bill:

And some of them are quite cheap (CrashPlan is $100 a year). For unlimited space and computers, I'd say that's pretty good. Does anyone have experience with CrashPlan or any other of the above solutions?

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I would say you can safely assume based on the lack of answers that what you are looking for doesn't exists. With the research I have done in the past this is definitely true. – Diago Feb 21 '10 at 21:07
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I was hoping he also asked that this service should be for free... – Ivo Flipse Feb 22 '10 at 7:54
If you ask me, a service like that should come with every Internet account. – Asaf Aug 18 '10 at 18:16
LIVEDRIVE.COM update it with that man. – TheBlackBenzKid Jan 17 '12 at 12:28

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Seeing that you found CrashPlan, what are you still looking for?

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At a quick glance at their site....some place that doesn't think 448-bit encryption with no algorithm specified is worth advertising. That's the issue that leaps out at me. – David Thornley Feb 24 '10 at 14:31
Sorry, that was too technical. I'd like to know what you mean, though. Can you put it in layman's terms? – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Feb 24 '10 at 18:35
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I use JungleDisk to back up my laptop to an Amazon S3 account. The JungleDisk app runs locally, and watches your selected folders and files for additions and changes, and uploads new and changed files. The app can be set to encrypt your files before they are uploaded, which is a useful security feature as only you will know the encryption key.

With S3 storage, you pay for the space you use, plus transfer costs. No fixed amount. You can set up multiple accounts for different systems or different sets of files.

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I use Wuala and find it stable and nice. I shared 100 GB on my HDD in exchange for 100 GB online storage so I now have all my photos and videos backed up for free :)

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I've heard good things about Backblaze but you pay per computer ($5 per computer per month). However, it is unlimited

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