Do any of you folks have personal experience with any of the online backup products? I am talking about comapnies like Carbonite and others. I have been trial testing the "top ten". My first impression is, "if these are the top ten the bottom ten must use couriers and file boxes." They mislead as to space available and ability for external drives. A few companies said "extrnal, no problem as long as it is 500GB or less." Why would you have a 500GB external drive with 1.5TB internal? The hidden premium to include an external drive can be as much as 67%. Any ideas? I am starting to lean towards going with a RAID configration and data redundancy. Fire is not a problem or flooding. Robbery is a distant possibility but with 3 large dogs and a very active and lethal vigilante group operating in the area, home robberies have dropped drastically. I think there have been about 12 executions of robbers. Signs left on the bodies saying, "don't rob houses."

Anyway, I got off topic. Please post your experiences, good and bad.
Thanks
Bill

Google drive is free.

I don't require a huge amount of storage so I just use Dropbox. I have heard good things about Amazon S3 though.

I used Carbonite years ago before they set a limit on how much you could use. I had a two or three years membership and I had gotten a special deal on it at the time. But it was cool to use it at the time. I was able to back up everything I had and even had to use it to recover my files once. I haven't had to money to sign up with them again since though. If I did I probably would. I would just have to be more selective about what I back up.