Free online storage space

I was looking for some website that offers completely free online storage space. I use to store some of the most important files I needed in Yahoo briefcase. Although, its convenient, they don't offer much free space. I wanted to backup some important files on my computer so that I don't loose them if my hard disk crashes. I saw this ad on either edealinfo or deals2buy (which BTW are great sites for deals) for streamload.com -- which is offering 10 GB for free!!!

Well, I did some more research on streamload.com and I have to say that their offer is not bad. They do offer 10 GB for free accounts, BUT you cannot download more than 100 MB / month and not more than 10 MB per file. We can get over the second limit by things like hjsplit, but.... I don't see many of my important files with size > 10 MB. The paid account (the minimum paid account) is something like $5, which, I think is not a huge amount if you do need to download more than 100 MB sometime. So, for now I keep my files on their free acount and will upgrade to paid one if and when I need to. They have two programs for downloading and uploading whole directory structures, and there are some other third party programs on their site which provides nice interface for streamload. (link) But I found some bugs in streamload uploader.

In general, I don't like to put too much trust on the new players in the market. They all start with offers like streamload but subsequently reduce the disk space or make it paid. This website gives a good comparison of all the sites that provide you with free space for your files.

Well, it would be interesting if someone made a "wrapper" around gmail which will make your gmail account a place to store your files (atleast you will get 1 GB of guarranteed free space, and you can always make more accounts ;-) ). I don't think its very difficult, maybe something similar already exists.