TechSpot: Cloud Storage Services, Five Alternatives Compared

[McLovin]

It's cloud storage week apparently, with Dropbox rolling out an update that improves how its users can share things, Microsoft's SkyDrive getting dedicated desktop apps and a revamped feature set, and Google Drive finally making its long-awaited debut. The market suddenly got much more competitive.

Although there are many more options out there, some serving specific niches, we've hand-picked some of the most established and consumer-friendly cloud storage services and took them for a spin to see how well they stack against each other. We've included a comparative table for an at-a-glance overview of each service's strong points, while a more detailed description should give you a better idea of which one fits your needs.

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[jamescv7]

For me I will combine Google Drive (once it become available), SkyDrive and Dropbox since my purpose is to have a storage through cloud and encrypted. So combining on the storage space its really good.

 

[Ink]

Google Drive isn't available over here yet, but doesn't look good either.

What Google Drive actually is.

When you first install the Google Drive agent on your computer, it's automatically populated with all of your existing Google documents and spreadsheets. Well.. you think it's being populated with all those files until you notice that they're all less than 1k in size. It turns out that they're just links to the existing Google Docs web-based office products.

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2012/04/26/google-drive-represents-the-future-unfortunately-that-future-is-really-far-away.aspx]Link