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      MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online

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      Eric Lundquist
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      December 8, 2006
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        MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online

        Free/fee sharing/backup service targets

        consumers, professionals

        by Daniel P. Dern ([email protected])

        Vendor: Streamload, Inc. Product Name: Mediamax free/fee online file sharing/storage Price (MSRP): 25GB free; 100GB for $4.95/month (larger amounts,

        yearly discounts available) Availability: Now. Product URL: www.mediamax.com

        Tech Requirements: Javascript/Java-enabled browser

        A gigabyte or two of free online file sharing/storage space is easy to find these days — but for many consumers, professionals and SOHOs with blogs, podcasts, photos, and backups, that’s not enough. And paid space seems to run a minimum three to five dollars just for another gigabyte or three.

        Streamload Technologies has upped the ante — and quota — with

        their MediaMax.com service., offering 25GB storage (with a monthly

        download cap, note) free.

        And if you want or need more, you can get 100GB for $4.95/month,

        250GB for $9.95/month, or 1TB for $29.95/month (about 20-25% less

        if you pay by the year). One year for a quarter or full TB is about a

        third of what you’d pay for RAIDed external storage in your home/office.

        say, with a DLINK DNS-323 NAS or Infrant ReadyNAS+

        And data is stored on multiple disks, in multiple locations, so you shouldn’t lose files from a single failure.

        According to Michael Corrales, Director of Marketing at Streamload, Inc., the company behind MediaMax, they can afford to do this through a combination of special storage technologies, bulk purchasing of storage — way cheaper than you or I will get buying 750GB drives at New Egg, I’m sure —

        MediaMax is targeting both the media-sharing — you can give non-members access to your files — and storage/backup customers; according to Corrales, about half or more of their customers are sharing files, and nearly half are using it for backup. They offer a number of applications to help with photo and video sharing.

        To use MediaMax, you need a browser running JavaScript 1.5 or higher… although features like batch-uploading requires an embedded Java

        install.

        For power users, Streamload also offers a client tool for XP, and supports

        FTP up/downloads — probably worth checking out, as the browser upload I just tried was slowwwww, AND bogged my system down.

        Eric Lundquist
        Since 1996, Eric Lundquist has been Editor in Chief of eWEEK, which includes domestic, international and online editions. As eWEEK's EIC, Lundquist oversees a staff of nearly 40 editors, reporters and Labs analysts covering product, services and companies in the high-technology community. He is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings and user events and sits on numerous advisory boards. Eric writes the popular weekly column, 'Up Front,' and he is a confidant of eWEEK's Spencer F. Katt gossip columnist.

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