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When I got my first computer before going to college, it amazed me with its massive 366MB of memory. How would I ever use all of it? That computer cost nearly $2000.

Since then, hard drives have gotten a lot bigger and a lot cheaper. Want proof? OpenDrive Beta will give you a gigabyte of storage for free.

OpenDrive is like an online hard disk for backing up data or sharing files with others. Collaborate in real time using OpenDrive’s Collaboration Pro feature. You can also sync with uploaded files, so if you update your novel-in-progress, OpenDrive will save your changes both on your computer and in the copy you’ve squirreled away online.

Years from now we’ll laugh at the idea of a paltry gigabyte of storage. Until then, feel free to marvel at OpenDrive’s massive amount of memory. And you can’t beat the price. -BILL FERRIS

UPDATE: Dizzy with the possibility of all that free storage, I forgot to put a link in the article. You can try out OpenDrive by clicking here.

UPDATE 12/8/09: FYI, OpenDrive may not be a great site to tell your students about. A lot of folks like to use their public folders to store…well, inappropriate content. You won’t see anything if you don’t go looking for it, though, so if you want something for your own storage needs, OpenDrive should still work for you.

OpenDrive Beta

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