Monday, September 8, 2014

Cloud Computing Services





Name of Service

How Much Storage Capacity for Free?

Can you download a drive to your computer?

How Much is the Upgrade Price to Pro or more storage?

Google Drive

7 Gigabytes

Yes

Storage:   Monthly Rate:

100 GB      $1.99

1 TB           $9.99

10 TB         $99.99

20 TB         $199.99

30 TB         $299.99

Microsoft Sky Drive

15 Gigabytes

Yes – If you consider OneDrive capability it seems like this is possible using offline-file functionality

50% off for 2.50 Monthly for 1 Terabyte

Dropbox.com

2 Gigabytes

Yes

Dropbox basic plus gives you 1 TB of space for $9.99 a month

Yousendit.com

2 Gigabytes

No

$15.99 for the professional plan provides unlimited storage and more expensive plans provide additional branding and user options

Justcloud.com

Unlimited

No

Free for a limited time




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.
 

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