The Top 10 Free Cloud Storage Services
The use of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are increasing, the need for cloud storage services has also been growing rapidly. With the huge competition in online storage space, many cloud storage services are providing free storage to lure new customers.
Cloud storage services are cost effective solutions in particular for the contingent workforce, such as contractors, consultants and freelancers.
With free cloud storage services you can store your documents, videos, music, movies, photos and files in the cloud for free and access them from anywhere on the go, via the internet. Your data is safe and secure.
Top 10 Free Cloud Storage Services
- Dropbox: Without any doubts, Dropbox is the best cloud storage service in the world. It is very simple to use and is available on almost every platform. Dropbox provides 2 GB of free cloud storage to every user and you can also earn additional free storage, for example by referring Dropbox to your friends.
- Google Drive: The cloud storage service from the search giant Google provides you with 15GB of free storage. Google Drive lets you store, share and edit your files. You can also collaborate with others to work on your files.
- Box: Box is popular among business and enterprise users, it provides 10GB of free storage for personal use.
- Mega: Mega provides 50GB of free cloud storage to its clients.
- Copy: Copy provides 15GB of free cloud storage to every user and you also get 5GB free space for every friend you refer. There is no upper limit to the free storage you can get and sky is the limit (or should I say the cloud is the limit – excuse the pun).
- ADrive: ADrive gives you an impressive 50GB of free cloud storage with personal accounts. But, with the free account you miss out on the best features of ADrive like 16GB file uploads and also have to bear with the ads on Android and iOS apps.
- Bitcasa: Bitcasa is a cloud storage service that lays emphasis on the privacy of your data. All data you store on Bitcasa is encrypted before upload and only you can view them. Bitcasa provides 25GB of free cloud storage and you can access your data from 3 different devices.
- OneDrive: Microsoft has recently re-branded its cloud storage service previously named SkyDrive to OneDrive, which provides 15GB of free cloud storage to its users. You can get an additional 5GB by referring your friends and 3GB more by enabling photo backup.
- SpiderOak: This is one more cloud storage service that lays more emphasis on your data privacy. SpiderOak provides 2GB of free cloud storage which can be expanded up to 10GB by referring friends (you get 1GB for every friend you refer to the service).
- Tencent Weiyun: Tencent is a very huge Chinese internet company that is offering a whopping 10 TB of free cloud storage to every new user! Yes, you heard it right. That is 10240 GB of free cloud storage!
