Best Cloud Storage Services for Windows

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Even if you don't know it, if you use a Gmail, Apple or Microsoft account, accounts with cloud storage space, a very small and limited space, but you have it. For some time now, large companies have opted for this type of service that allows us to store data and backup copies with total security.

In the market we can find, in addition to the big three that I have mentioned, a large number of alternatives, perfectly valid alternatives if we are not looking for a perfect integration with other platforms and especially with applications. If you want to know what the best cloud storage platforms I invite you to keep reading.

What is a cloud storage service?

Before talking about the different cloud storage platforms, we must understand what the cloud is: it is a resource to which you can remotely access online, either for free or for a fee.

Storage platforms are similar to furniture storage, but instead of filling them with boxes, you fill the cloud storage accounts with your files.

The actual location of your files it is usually in a data center, on a server, on a hard drive or on a solid state drive very, very far from us.

OneDrive

OneDrive

OneDrive is a great option for anyone who regularly use both Windows and office applications that the company makes available to us.

It offers us a perfect integration with both Windows and with the rest of the Office applications, including the Outlook email manager and in terms of functions, It has little or nothing to envy the rest of the platforms.

Allows us share files with other people, even if they are not OneDrive users (establishing the corresponding permissions), and the ability to edit files online without having to download them is our team.

If you have a Microsoft account, you have at your disposal 5 GB of space completely free, space with which we can do little or nothing. But, for little money, you can expand your space up to 100 GB.

If you use Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) cloud storage space is 1TB, a space that we can also expand if it falls short by paying a little more.

El maximum file size that we can upload to this platform is 250 GB. It has an application for iOS and Android.

Google Drive

Google Drive

Google Drive is the platform most used worldwide since it offers us a perfect integration both with Android and with any other Google service, such as Gmail. For free, it offers us 15 GB of storage space.

It has an application for Windows, an application that is installed on our computer as one more storage unit and it allows us to select which folders and directories we want to download to our computer, without having to have an exact copy of all the content on our computer.

The web interface It is not one of the best on the market, a defect that is supplemented by using the application for Windows and macOS. Drive also integrates Google's powerful search and artificial intelligence technology, probably one of the best in the world.

iCloud

iCloud

La solution that Apple offers to all Windows users to store files in the cloud is called iCloud. This platform, which offers 5 GB of free space to all users who have an Apple ID, and is available in the form of an application that we can download from the Microsoft Store.

This application, will create a folder on our computer, folder where we can select which files and directories we can download to our computer to work with without having all the content stored on our computer.

El maximum file size that we can upload to this platform is 50 GB at the time of publishing this article, lagging far behind compared to OneDrive, whose maximum size is 250 GB.

Apple's iCloud is not available for Android, this being its most negative point in terms of compatibility, although we can access it through iCloud.com from a web browser.

dropbox

dropbox

Dropbox is one of the oldest cloud storage platforms on the market. In fact, it was the first company that began more than a decade ago to offer this type of service.

At present, due to the integration of Google, Microsoft and Apple with their platforms, its use has mainly spread between large companies and not between individuals.

Offers us a application for Windows and macOS, as well as an application for iOS and Android devices. In a native way, it offers us 2 GB of storage, space with which we can do absolutely nothing.

MEGA

The main attraction that Mega offers us are the 20 GB of cloud storage space that it offers us and is available on all platforms and operating systems on the market.

Like the rest of the platforms, it offers us end-to-end encryption in addition to two-factor authentication to prevent any unknown person from accessing our data.

When we share a file, we can set user permissions, add password protection and set expiration dates for links.

There is no possibility of edit files in a shared way, neither in the desktop application nor in the web interface, which limits user productivity.

MEGA is a good option for those looking upload photos, videos and documents securely, but they don't need much embellishment in other departments.

MEGA's cloud storage platform is also available from Windows and macOS, for Android and for iOS.

Which one is cheaper?

If we bother to check the prices of the different storage plants of these platforms available in the market, we can see how everyone, absolutely everyone, they offer us the same prices in the same storage plans.

Esto facilitates the choice of users, since all you have to do is select the one that best suits your needs for use, operating system with which you work, compatibility with applications ...


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