Computer crash or: How I learned to stop worrying and back up my data

I recently faced a computer crash and lost all the data in my computer. We have so much data like photos, videos, documents, tax forms, that we don't even recollect what we lost until we actually do.

I ruled out the option of external Hard Drive Drive. I heard from a my friend of mine that his external HDD crashed and he lost data as well. So I am ruling it out. What good is a backup if it is not a reliable?

So the only viable and reliable alternative is that I should use
an online cloud storage solution to ensure that despite such unfortunate situation of my laptop / computer or external HDD crash, I will still have my content intact in the cloud server. 

This instigated me to explore free online storage solutions that are on offer. Here are my observations on the best ones available out there as of now.

• DropBox - Free - 2 GB only - great solution but too less space to start with.
• GoogleDrive - Free - 10 GB - but automatic syncing currently not present
• SkyDrive - Free - 7 GB - It is a Microsoft product.
• Amazon Drive - Free - 5GB - I have not yet tried this. But I am listing it here as it is famous.
• COPY - Free - 20 GB - Desktop client for automatic syncing across all OS.
• Bitcasa - Free - 10 GB - less famous but acts as a virtual drive on your computer

Quoting the famous author Douglas Adams "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so", I do hope at least others can learn from my mistake and not wait until they face similar situation.

Moral of the story: Have all your precious data backed up using any good cloud storage solution.