*Free* & new From Amazon "Amazon Cloud Drive" - 5 GB free online storage!

New from amazon:

Amazon Cloud Drive - 5GB of Free Online Storage (Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon's secure servers. All you need is a web browser to upload, download, and access your files from any computer.)

LINK:
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore?


What is Amazon Cloud Drive?
Amazon Cloud Drive is your hard drive in the cloud. Store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon's secure servers. All you need is a web browser to upload, download, and access your files from any computer. Get more details about using Cloud Drive
5 GB of free online storage

Your Cloud Drive comes with 5 GB of free storage—enough space to store up to 1000 songs. This space is yours to use as you like and you will never be charged for it.

Unlimited, secure access from any computer
Use your Amazon Cloud Drive as the go-to location for all your important files. At work, at home, during your commute or while on vacation—you'll always have access to everything you've uploaded to your Cloud Drive through your Amazon account.
Never worry about losing your files again
Store files in your Cloud Drive and never worry about losing them if your computer crashes, or is lost or stolen.
Songs purchased from Amazon MP3 are stored in your Cloud Drive for free

When you purchase songs or albums from the Amazon MP3 Store, you can now save your purchases to your Cloud Drive. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. Even better, you can listen to your music from any web-connected computer with Amazon Cloud Player. (for Web/Android)

And the best part? When you save your Amazon MP3 Store purchases directly to your Cloud Drive, they don't take up any of your storage space and are always stored for free.

Buy an MP3 album—get 20 GB of storage free for a year

Purchase an album from the Amazon MP3 Store and we'll give you 20 GB of storage free of charge for one year from the date of your purchase. That's enough space to store up to 4000 songs. You can keep your 20 GB storage plan after the year is up or do nothing and we'll drop you down to our free 5 GB plan. Don't worry—you will never be charged for storage space unless you choose to upgrade to a paid storage plan. Learn more about the 20 GB promotion

Edit:
you can get 20GB of storage for purchasing a .69 MP3 album.

Here is the link, I just went went with the first Glee one for .69 (Trouty Mouth), clicked "Buy MP3 Album with One Click" on the upper right corner. After you add it to your Cloud Drive, you should have received an e-mail like this:

 

Nice. Better than the online storage that came with my eeepc netbook 2years ago.

 

Thanks, but no thanks.

"...5.2. Our Right to Access Your Files. You give us the right to access, retain, use and disclose your account information and Your Files: to provide you with technical support and address technical issues; to investigate compliance with the terms of this Agreement, enforce the terms of this Agreement and protect the Service and its users from fraud or security threats; or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law..."

 

Ew. Methinks I'll stay with Dropbox then.

 

LoL.likeomgtotally..Best stay off the interwebs then...

Anyway, you can get 20GB of storage for purchasing a .69 MP3 album.

Here is the link, I just went went with the first Glee one for .69 (Trouty Mouth), clicked "Buy MP3 Album with One Click" on the upper right corner. After you add it to your Cloud Drive, you should have received an e-mail like this:

 

You do know that Dropbox uses Amazon's service so this already applies to you, right? Or were you too busy adjusting your tinfoil hat?

20GB for a pretty cheap price is alright for me. This will be a good place to store files I'd rather not lose.

 

Let's contrast shall we? Emphasis mine. Full text of Dropbox ToS

Do what you want, but the fewer parties interested in my stuff, the better.

 

I actually don't take the time to worry about what Amazon is going to do..Amazon is large, strong and good company.

I get most of my MP3's from Amazon, so this is an added bonus for me.

 

Amazon isn't claiming ownership over your files. You can compare and contrast all day, but neither TOS or privacy policy different significantly. Like I said previously, Dropbox uses Amazon's service so if you are afraid of Amazon then you are going to need to find a new service.

 

There is nothing in the Dropbox ToS that mentions Amazon at all. If Amazon's terms supersede those of Dropbox, then I will be finding a new service. I've fired off an e-mail to Dropbox legal for clarification.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/help/7

Of course they supersede them. Dropbox must abide by Amazon's terms and they can choose to implement addition terms of their own.

 

+rep for that link.

Thinking about it, though, it probably doesn't matter all that much. Amazon probably knows more about me than I know about myself.

I have nothing to hide anyway. All I really keep in my Dropbox are a couple documents and pictures, along with older versions of programs that I don't want to lose.

 

Of course - do not put anything online that you want private. But I don't like their facebook-style terms (selling your soul for 20GB ), them deciding if my files violate copyright infringement if I rip something off DVD to watch on my laptop etc.

That said, I don't think there is ANY file on computer that I didn't upload to flickr or facebook and that feel like sharing with anyone.

If you want your personal files available online for you wherever you go - why not make a home server, like I made from my old desktop.

Speaking of which oh, I think I hear the UPS delivery delivering my new 2TB HD for the server.

 

Thanks for the your post & great clarification...++Rep to you

 

As long as you use this for music and so you can stream your music, I think this is a good idea. Mac should have done it with mobile me a long long time ago.

Also I heard that if you purchase an Album they give you the 20gig membership for a year for free... I did not see this in writing though and was not going to buy an album I didn't want to test the theory...

 

Yes, you can purchase MP3 album for .69 and you get the 1year with 20GB free (see my 1st post about the deal).

 

Whoops. Ok... well @.69c its a good deal. I also verified that this works well on my phone (Sprint HTC EVO).

Looks like I'm all set...

 

Yay! Glad it is working out for you! This works out nicely with Amazon MP3 purchases, etc.

 

The uploads seem to be pretty slow, but that could be on my (the user) end. Also note that only mp3 and m4a are supported...

 

Or get 50GB free indefinitely from Adrive.com

ADrive | 50GB Free Online Storage, Online Backup, Cloud Storage

 

Free? Foreverrr?

 

I'd rather not stare at ads when going through my files, thankyouverymuch.

I also heard back from Dropbox, and the back end they use with Amazon (S3) is different than the Cloud Drive service. Because of the way Dropbox encrypts files that are put on S3 servers, Amazon can't do anything with them. They can't even see what you've put up there. Take that for what it's worth, but at least Dropbox responded to my inquiry.

 

What ads? I haven't seen any ads. Maybe adblocker plus is being my friend too.

But regarding Dropbox, yeah, that seems to make sense. Dropbox makes a big deal about security and encryption that it would be a bit contradictory to their intent.

 

ADrive has a 2 GB file limit. Useless :/

 

Soooo, show me another free service that allows easy file transfers up to 50GB without a file limit?

If you can't bother with splitting files for free storage then feel free to pay.

 

can't argue with you there. i just don't like it and prefer dropbox w/ referrals (almost 20 GB free with .edu email) and/or paying amazon 70 cents for a year.

 

I may use Amazon storage though. But I just hate annual fees. They give you 20GB first year and then ask for $20 next year. In either case, a year of 20GB storage for free is free anyhow. Definitely worth using.