Thanks very much everyone, I've decided to go with Dropbox.

Ok so, I just create an account, install Dropbox on both my laptop and netbook, start uploading from each and I'm done?

I think they have a tutorial video on their page that's very helpful and easy to understand. Most cloud storage services do I think.

Thanks. One last thing. Am I correct in thinking that anything in the Dropbox folders on my machines are stored online and are not actually on my harddrive? If so, if I lose internet connection, I'm unable to access them right?

Thanks. Actually, that's what I wanted to hear. I will use Dropbox primarily for work documents/projects so still having access to what I working on even if I lose internet, is a very good thing for me. :)

I have dropbox as well, but I can never find anyone to referral me so I'm stuck at the piddly-ass 2GB. :(

Dropbox has the best mobile apps.

Well, with Dropbox all set up on my laptop and netbook I've been sharing files between them with great ease. It's really good, why oh why didn't I get Dropbox ages ago lol.

Which is fine as long as you're not concerned with the effects of drop box wide deduplication and the security implication that has on your data.

I actually wasn't aware of that, but even so, it's usually nothing sensitive that I'm passing through Dropbox, so it works for me personally.

You mean porn right?

As long as you have things backed up elsewhere, the worst case scenario is where they can overwrite a file with one that has a matching checksum.

With system-wide dedupe the likelihood of that is insignificant. With the number of files that Dropbox has, it's still probably insignificant, but much more likely.

Personally, I wouldn't necessarily worry too much about it. You shouldn't be storing anything sensitive there anyways as the staff has access to all that data.

I'd be more concerned about losing a file due to somebody acquiring a computer with the dropbox install still active, or sitting down and deleting things out of that folder as I don't think Dropbox puts any effort at all into worrying about that.

But, I think that last point is pretty much any provider of such a service, not Dropbox specific.

I personally use and like Ubuntu One and Dropbox. Both are great and have good associated apps

I really like Dropbox, as it works pretty nicely as a link between my Android devices and PC. Easy to use as well. 2 gigs has been more than enough for me, as I don't usually use it to move large files.

I also use Google Drive regulary, especially I work on some file with other people. The office tools in it are quite convenient.

Cloud drives are pretty shit, imo: privacy does not exist (don't trust who says otherwise), reliability is fuzzy and the only sure thing is that sooner or later the "service" you are selling your data out will fuck you up. With mucho gusto.

So: use whatever you want only with strongly encrypted data, and locally backup everything at least once in a week....