Free Cloud Storage Services

Dropbox

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• Free basic account with 2GB of storage
• Available to upgrade to the 1TB plan for £7.99 per month

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• Offers 500MB of additional free storage for each friend you get to sign up (limit of 16GB
• Works by creating a local folder on your device or PC that then syncs with an online version.

OneDrive

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• 5GB of free storage
• Selective sync introduced with Windows 10

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• Social networks available to be linked to OneDrive
• You can remotely access files on another PC via the OneDrive website

Google Drive

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• 15GB of free space when you create a Google account
• The storage space is shared across Gmail, Google Calendar, and YouTube.

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• Gives the option of a local folder on your PC linked to a duplicate cloud version
• Google Music – a separate service - allows you to keep 50,000 songs in the cloud for free and not count against your Drive storage.

Mega

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• New Zealand-based company
• Provides encryption in every part of the process

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• Anything you store on Mega is only able to be opened by you
• Standard free package affords 50GB of space; you can have 500GB (99 Euros per year), 2TB (199 Euros per year), or 4TB (299 Euros per year)

pCloud

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• 10GB of free storage
• Can be upgraded to 20GB through regular incentives such as recommending friends

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• 500GB for £2.65p/m, 2TB available for£5.30p/m
• No file size restrictions
• Fast and efficient syncing

Tresorit

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• 3GB of free storage
• Premium account offers 100GB of storage
• Data encrypted locally; not even the staff at Tresorit can access your files

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• Business package customers can destroy documents remotely, ban the ability to print, copy, or email documents, and set restrictions on how much a recipient can edit a file.

Box

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• 10GB of free space
• Limits files to 250MB
• 100GB of storage paying £7 p/m

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• You can create new documents in either Microsoft Office, Google Docs, or web-based formats, which you can then edit in Box via a free, downloadable plug-in.