So so the competition is growing in terms of Cloud storage and that is really good for the consumers looking for awesome deals.
In this post I highlight some key comparable features for Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and SkyDrive
Ok so at time of writing here are some comparison by me
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Service
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Free storage
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Web
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Droid
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Win Phone
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Black berry
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iOS
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Linux
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Mac
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Windows
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Cost for 25GB
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Cost for 50GB
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| Google Drive | 5GB | Yes | Yes | X | X | Yes | X | Yes | Yes | $2.49 | $4.99 (100GB) |
| Dropbox | 2GB Upto 18 Gb Free with referrals |
Yes | Yes | X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only comes 50G+ | $9.99 |
| Box | 5GB | Yes | Yes | X | Yes | Yes | X | Yes | Yes | $9.99 | $19.99 |
| Microsoft SkyDrive | 7GB | Yes | X | Yes | X | Yes | X | Yes | Yes | $0.83 (27GB) | $2.08 (52GB) |
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Now For me Dropbox is a clear leader. Why? One of the main reason behind me saying that it supports nearly everything except Windows Phone. I am sure guys are working hard on this.
Google and Skydrive on the other hand has just started and have long way to go. With big brand name and trust behind them, I guess they will soon catchup with Dropbox.
I am not considering to tell you about Apple iCound because it is so tightly integrated with iOS and is not true Drive solution.
Box amongst all is really expensive. But I guess its not for guys like myself may be IBM perhaps could be using them.
Dropbox is an excellent service and to start with they give you 2GB free but thats not it. Stay with them and refer your friends and they will give upto 18GB for FREE depending how many referrals (500MB/referral) you can give them.
Google Drive has reserved Ad display rights in Drive. Google says it reserve rights to display ads with their Drive solution. Fair enough. Nothing is for FREE after all. Best thing though is that you can increase your storage to 16TB. Wow! that’s huge.
At the moment Google drive is more of an extension to its Google Documents and by default will download anything you got in your Docs to your mapped drive. But when it download your docs it actually have Google specific extensions such as .gdoc for a document, gdraw for drawing. Now this is to enable offline editing I suppose.
Skydrive is pretty much the same but when you save something in 365 from Office, File format never changes. Fair enough because thats their default extensions anyway.
I hope that above highlight will make you brain bit more clear who to go with.
I will prefer Drobbox for widely support devices and Google Drive because for me its Fast.
You can add to this post If I got something wrong.
Cheers,
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About SkyDrive,
Be aware that it does NOT run in Win XP. This cam be a problem when at work they still keep the old trusted XP…
sky drive is now on for droid too ..
Thanks for this info sahil.
Cheers!
Twitter: kale_moro
says:
No bro you are wrong. You only get upto 16GB in dropbox. Doesnt matter how many referrels u send out.
Well thing is that you can get upto 16GB with referrals but when you add 2GB on top of 16GB you will get 18Gb if my maths is right.
Search Google for DropBox 18Gb to see what other guys think.
for a reference just check this out
https://www.dropbox.com/plans
Hope this helps
Cheers!
Twitter: AlneciaPHS
says:
I don’t know when this article was written (don’t see a date), but I must say that I am very impressed by the “fetch” feature of SkyDrive (rarely see this mentioned in comparison articles) and have not seen that among the others. Also, the native Microsoft software editing online within SkyDrive will come in handy.