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Comparision: Major Free Cloud Storage Services

Cloud storage is a great way for securing your information online and then access it anywhere.
Samyak Lalit | March 15, 2012 (Last update: April 24, 2021)

Samyak Lalit is an Indian author and disability rights activist. He is the principal author and founder of projects like TechWelkin, WeCapable, Viklangta, Kavita Kosh among many others.

Lately, in one of my articles, I talked about what benefits cloud storage offers you and why it is getting popular, albeit slowly.

There are a number of benefits of using cloud-based storage. Security is one of them. High-security information domains like finance, insurance, banking and taxation are more and more using cloud storage. Since cloud-based programs are increasingly being used in conjunction with free tax calculators and estimators, financial modeling, risk prediction as well as other financial tools, the cloud security has improved exponentially to secure the sensitive documents and information. Other than security, cloud storage is cost-effective, automated, and easily accessible for users, among other things.

Today, I will give you an overview of cloud storage facilities available free of cost.

Today, I will give you an overview of some of the best cloud storage facilities available free of cost.

Google Docs

Google Docs is not exactly meant to be a cloud storage facility. It is in fact a suit of online office applications that allows you to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations etc. And the fact that you can store these files right into Google Docs –makes this service a sort of cloud storage. With Doc, Google is wanting to eliminate the need of offline office packages like MS Office.

Now let’s be concise. The following table gives you the important information about other major free cloud storage services.

Cloud storage is a great way for securing your information online and then access it anywhere.

Cloud storage is a great way for securing your information online and then access it anywhere.

Service Free Storage Allowed Max File Size Permitted Website
Dropbox 2GB 300 MB on the Web Interface, none on the Desktop client Dropbox
SugarSync 5GB 25MB SugarSync
Ubuntu One 5GB 5TB Ubuntu One
Windows Live Skydrive 25GB 100 MB Windows Live Skydrive
iDrive 5GB No Limit iDrive
Memopal 3GB 5GB Memopal
ADrive 50GB 2GB ADrive
OpenDrive 5GB 100MB OpenDrive
ZumoDrive 2GB No Limit ZumoDrive
SpiderOak 2GB No Limit SpiderOak
Syncplicity 2GB No Limit Syncplicity
Google Docs 1GB 1GB Google Docs
MiMedia 7GB 3GB MiMedia
Windows Live Mesh 5GB Windows Live Mesh
FilesAnywhere 1GB No Limit FilesAnywhere
ElephantDrive 2GB ElephantDrive
Dell Datasafe 2GB Dell Datasafe
ASUS WebStorage 2GB ASUS WebStorage
Mozy 2GB No Limit Mozy
Wuala 2GB 100GB Wuala
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One response to “Comparision: Major Free Cloud Storage Services”

  1. David Myth says:

    Thanks for the article! Will check out these cloud storage services.

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