BANGALORE, INDIA: A lot have been discussed about the five online storage biggies namely Google GDrive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, Amazon Cloud Drive and Dropbox, majority of who offer 5GB of cloud storage for free, except for Skydrive and Dropbox who offer 7GB and 2 GB (up to 16 GB with referrals) respectively.
Now, let's find out five other alternatives who also offer 5GB of free online storage space.
!. Sugarsync
Free Space | Upgrade Price | Additional | Accesible from | platform Support |
5 GB | 30 GB $4.99 / month $49.99 / year 60 GB 100 GB |
250 GB plan is available for a special introductory price of $24.99 / month or $249.99 / year 500 GB plan is available for a special introductory price of $39.99 / month or $399.99 / year |
iPhone iPad Android BlackBerry Symbian Windows Mobile Outlook Plugin Mobile website Kindle Fire |
XP, Vista and 7
Mac OSX support Offers open API to allow for integration with third party apps |
2. HiDrive
Free Storage | Upgrade Price | Additional Storage | Accessible from | Platform Support |
5GB | 100 GB for $12.08/month
500 GB for $36.48/month |
Can be upgraded to up to 5000 GB | Windows Phone 7, iPhone & iPad, Android phone and tablet | iOS, Android, Windows 7 |
3. ComodoCloud
Free Storage |
250GB
$9.99/month
$99.99/year
Windows Vista (Home/Business/Ultimate) (32bit and 64bit)
Windows XP SP2 (Home/Professional) (32bit and 64 bit)
Windows 2003 Server (32bit and 64 bit)
Windows 2008 Server (32bit and 64bit)
4. Box.net
This provider gives 500GB of storage space for its business users and allows its enterprise users to store unlimited files in the cloud. The pricing details are not available. Box offers native mobile apps for iOS, Android and WebOS phones and tablets.
5. Pogoplug
Free Storage | Upgrade Price | Additional Storage | Accessible from | Platform Support |
5GB |
Infinite storage: Pogoplug Classic Pogoplug Pogoplug Series 4 |
iPhone, iPad and Android | Microsoft Windows XP/7, Apple Mac OS X 10.6.6 & above
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome |
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