{"id":6053,"date":"2008-08-11T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/5-free-ways-to-store-data-online\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:28:30","slug":"5-free-ways-to-store-data-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/5-free-ways-to-store-data-online\/","title":{"rendered":"5 free ways to store data online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"syncplicity-logo.jpg\"Traveling with software or data abroad is becoming an increasingly risky act – especially if you’re going in or out of the USA. The Washington Post<\/a> recently reported that The Department for Homeland Security has quietly passed a new law which means that storage devices, including USB drives, hard drives and laptops, can be confiscated for an unspecified period of time with no suspicion of wrongdoing needed. For a developer, this could mean losing weeks or even years of hard work on a piece of software and for more general users, this could mean losing all your backed-up data. Not to mention the inconvenience and gross invasion of privacy a search of your storage devices would entail. Therefore, if you’re worried about having your data confiscated at an airport, here are 5 free ways to store your data online instead.
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\nMediafire<\/strong><\/a> – Excellent online storage and file sharing site which allows unlimited file storage and easy sharing of data via links you can send in an e-mail. To upload single files bigger than 2GB in size (Mediafire is limited to 100MB per file) however you’ll have to upgrade to MediaPro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Syncplicity<\/strong><\/a> – An online backup and synchronisation tool that offers 2GB of free space. You can also upgrade to 40GB for $9.99 a month and receive more free space online for every friend you refer or who subscribes.
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\nOmnidrive<\/strong><\/a> – Cross platform online storage with only 1GB of free space but a great option for documents as it allows you to edit them online using Zoho<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Allmydata<\/strong><\/a> – 1GB of free storage but offer unlimited storage from $4.99 per month. This includes automatic backups, 24 hour remote access to your files and no ads.<\/p>\n

Mozy<\/strong><\/a> – 2GB of free online backup space and unlimited storage plans from just $4.99 per month.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget either that if you’ve got a Gmail account, you can also use it as a handy online storage tool as I mentioned last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traveling with software or data abroad is becoming an increasingly risky act – especially if you’re going in or out of the USA. The Washington Post recently reported that The Department for Homeland Security has quietly passed a new law which means that storage devices, including USB drives, hard drives and laptops, can be confiscated … Continue reading “5 free ways to store data online”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335932,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions\/335932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}