Gmail and Flickr Pros
After experiencing a total loss of a harddrive you begin to really appreciate services that offer free storage. Whether that service is for large email storage or photos I am really becoming a fan of the services. I have heard on more than one occasion complaints of lost email and lost photos after a harddrive failure. Housing email and photos with a service whose job it is to backup their customers data is my kind of free service.
I highly recommend you backup locally in addition to using these type of services. Using cloud services as your only backup is just asking for trouble. I specifically use a Gmail or a Flickr because I want an offsite backup of my email and photos in addition to a locally backed up copy. My first hardware crash since using these two aforementioned programs only strengthened my love of both. Do you have other services like these that you use? If so, I would love to hear about those services as well.
