Name of Service
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How Much Storage Capacity for Free?
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Can you download a drive to your computer?
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How Much is the Upgrade Price to Pro or more storage?
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Google Drive
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7 Gigabytes
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Yes
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Storage: Monthly Rate:
100 GB $1.99
1 TB $9.99
10 TB $99.99
20 TB $199.99
30 TB $299.99
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Microsoft Sky Drive
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15 Gigabytes
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Yes – If you consider OneDrive capability it seems like this is possible
using offline-file functionality
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50% off for 2.50 Monthly for 1 Terabyte
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Dropbox.com
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2 Gigabytes
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Yes
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Dropbox basic plus gives you 1 TB of space for $9.99 a month
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Yousendit.com
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2 Gigabytes
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No
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$15.99 for the professional plan provides unlimited storage and more
expensive plans provide additional branding and user options
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Justcloud.com
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Unlimited
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No
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Free for a limited time
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As my table speaks for itself I’m
not going to spend a whole lot of time explaining each cloud service; however
after reviewing them I think my favorite is probably Dropbox. While this may
seem surprising in the end I found this to be one of the best for me mainly due
to the fact that getting more space for free is not impossible. As far as I can
tell every other service has a set amount of free space one can acquire unless
you pay more money. This may not be true for justcloud.com, however this site
is newer and could easily drop its promotion for unlimited free space after
you’ve taking the time to set up shop so to speak making in convenient to
choose a different service. Dropbox on the other hand will give you additional
storage space for referring your friend, completing their “get started” guide,
and even by sending them feedback. This is nice not only because you are
getting more space for free, but this is space you keep and continue to not pay
for and in my book any service that continues to give you more for free without
nickel and diming you is good to me. It also helps that they are rated as one
of the most reliable services out there.