"Uh, yeah, sure, I'm with Dell. I love Dell. I'm the farmer in the Dell. I listen to Adele. Gimme my 50GB."
(Credit: Box)
Recently, cloud-storage service Box was offering free 25GB accounts to new customers.
I meant to write it up, but other things got in the way. Good thing, too, because now Box is offering free 50GB accounts to new customers. My foot-dragging is your gain.
Before I go any further, take note that the signup page says "Dell Exclusive Offer." There's no indication you need to actually be a Dell customer or employee or anything like that, but there's always the chance Box will get flooded with unintended/unwanted sign-ups and decide to end or even rescind the offer. (Anyone remember the SiriusXM Internet Radio debacle?)
That said, I just signed up, and it looks like I'm good to go. Your mileage may vary.
Box, of course, is one of the older, larger, and more established cloud-storage services. I mention that because people tend to get skittish about handing their data to unknown and/or startup sky-folk.
Normally when you sign up for a freebie account, you get 5GB of space. This is 10 times that much, enough to actually be practical for say, backing... [Read more]
by Rick Broida via CNET
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