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Hotmail/Gmail as network storage? <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/20/0316226&tid=95&tid=162&tid=109&tid=218">Hotmail is apparently boosting their storage limit to 2GB now,</a> which got me thinking: what about using free email accounts as a distributed network storage system? Perhaps not terribly practical, but might be a fun project. Encrypt your data, break it up into chunks, and distribute it among any number of free email accounts. Sure, you suffer the overhead of base64 encoding, but free is free.
Brad
(sorry about that folks...forgot about the no-HTML tags)
Brad
KC
Actually with all the other players upping the ante, gmail's 1gig is starting to look peanuts.
Ogami Itto
Are the other players really upping the ante though, or are they bluffing? We know that Google have the platform to support their offering.
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
And you think Yahoo and Microsoft don't?
www.MarkTAW.com
hotmail just went to 250meg for free, 2 gig for about $20 a year.
John
No company has the platform available to support all users actually using 1gig, let alone two. It's just an advertising scheme based on the fact that most users will barely ever use 10MB.
Andrew Cherry
Google's competitive advantage is their platform i.e. their petabyte file system, their 100,000+ servers, their redundancy at entire computer level rather than component level and their custom software to manage that lot.
John Topley (www.johntopley.com)
Andrew Cherry: "10MB should be enough for anybody!"
Poppin the Cherry
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