# A Free TB of Online Storage for Any Data(via Flikr)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 21, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970 "2013-05-21T23:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970/1 "2013-05-21T23:15:11Z")

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“In a bid to revive interest in Flickr, Yahoo has redesigned its photo community website and increased the amount of free storage available to Flickr users to 1 terabyte…  
The problem with using Flickr for general storage is that it’s only designed for images. To get around that, developer Ryan LeFevre has posted Ruby code to Github called flickr-store that lets users encode data as a .PNG image file, so it can be stored using Flickr.”  
[http://www.informationweek.com/storage/data-protection/flickr-can-store-any-data-not-just-photo/240155298](http://www.informationweek.com/storage/data-protection/flickr-can-store-any-data-not-just-photo/240155298)

The Ruby code is at:

> **[GitHub - meltingice/flickr-store: Store arbitrary data on Flickr](https://github.com/meltingice/flickr-store)**
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> Store arbitrary data on Flickr. Contribute to meltingice/flickr-store development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970/2 "2013-05-22T08:08:13Z")

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Hmm I only have 50 GB of photos. I’m using Picasa Web. It’s time to consider Flickr now.

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970/3 "2013-05-22T12:09:59Z")

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Ha, I just heard about the 1 TB storage yesterday and pretty much within an hour wondered if there was a way to store regular data there. Since lossless picture formats are apparently an option, I guess it is possible after all unless of course Flickr were to say “hey, we decided to save some space and compress these images for you!”

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**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-free-tb-of-online-storage-for-any-data-via-flikr/658970/4 "2013-05-22T15:19:40Z")

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Since there’s already a discussion of this in Cafe Society, I’m going to redirect you all [there](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=691528). 🙂