You’re probably already aware that there are lots of different ways to store files online. Check out this article to find out about them.
One of the most popular ones is by using a cloud service. But which cloud services are the best ones?
Dropbox
If you talk about cloud services then one of the first things that springs to your mind is Dropbox, which isn’t the first cloud-based storage service that appeared, but is the one who made this kind of service popular. It’s different to other cloud systems in that it doesn’t need a Web-browser interface because it works perfectly on nearly every computer (even if it’s running Android, iOS or Linux).
Dropbox is mainly for documents so the 2GB of free storage space it offers may be just enough to meet your needs. It costs $9.99 a month for 50GBs and $19.99 for 100GBs.
Amazon Cloud Drive
Providing 20GBs of free storage space, the Amazon Cloud Drive also allows you to use this storage space to stream music to up to eight devices. Amazon also allows tou to store your music there without using any of your free storage space as long as you buy your music from Amazon. Click here to download Amazon Cloud Drive.
iCloud
iCloud is much more than just a storage service. All the apps, music, TV shows or books you get from the iTunes store don’t use up any of your own free storage space. Apart from giving you storage and online music service, Apple includes its wireless services (from its own e-mail service to mobile backup, location awareness and contact synchronization). To make the most of iCloud your Mac should be running on Lion, or if you have an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch, they should be running on iOS5.
Although it comes with only 5GB of storage space, you can get 10GB more at $20 a year, or 50GB for $100 a year.
GDrive
GDrive or Google Drive is Google’s cloud storage service. It is more like an extension of Google Docs but it has some limitations. It is not advisable to use it when sharing or editing Microsoft Office files online because it has a very poor compatibility with complex office files. Nevertheless Google allows you to download an AutoCAD WS app that enables you to view DWG or DXF files online.
GDrive has the following prices depending on how much storage space you want. So you can get 5GB of storage space for free, 25GB at $2.49, 100GB at $4.99, 200GB at $9.99, 400GB at $19.99, 1TB at $49.99, 2TB at $99.99, 4TB at $199.99, 8TB at $399.99 and 16TB at $799.99.
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