Three years ago this article would have made no sense, but with the expansion of free online storage services it’s quite possible to have access to 6 GB of storage and not even know it.
The first thing to do is decide if you need all these accounts. I primarily use Dropbox because when I started looking at cloud storage there weren’t many options and this suited to my purposes (I also invited a truckload of people which pushed my free storage limit up to 13GB), but there are other options that might suit you better. With a little ferreting about you could quite easily cobble together 100GB of free storage. The risk is you end up with orphan data strewn across net, just like the files on those 500MB thumb drives rattling your bottom draw.
The problem for me occurs when people want to share data. My brother uses Dropbox, some people at work use Google Drive and a few external work contacts use Sky Drive. So I have to manage at least three accounts, which is a pain. But it appears I’m not alone and there are free solutions to my free storage problem.
I have had a hunt around and found this article.
Five tools to help sync more than one cloud storage service
I haven’t tried any yet but when I do I’ll let you know.