Updated cloud services: Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive

[hariasa]

The Cloud service Dropbox, which enables you to sync and share folders and files with others, has got a lot of competition this week.

- Google Drive has been opened for the public, giving 5 GB of space, although this is shared with what you have already saved on your google acount (such as GMail).

- Microsoft Skydrive got an overhaul today, giving 7 GB of free space. However, if you have used Skydrive before April 22, they give you a free bump to 25 GB! You have to login to Skydrive to claim your free space quickly though.

All these cloud services enable you to also share folders and files, collaborate with documents and sync folders and files to iOS, Windows, Mac OSX and Android. They also have pricing plans for heavy users.

https://drive.google.com/start#home
https://skydrive.live.com/

What's your favorite cloud service?

[Lurker]

hem, never use cloud storage, since my bandwidth suck (download and upload really slow) but I've been using dropbox once

regards,

[arcsump]

Google drive still has a LOT of bugs!

for one,

the deleted files are still counted as part of your storage.

In particular, this pissed me off:

when i deleted one file, the whole folder stored here locally gets REDOWNLOADED.

same is true when uploading one file, the whole folder gets REUPLOADED.

Would love to see how Google handles their job in the following months.

[sss4sss]

Be ware with what you store in the cloud service. Always remember to encrypt your data with very strong encryption. We never know what those cloud services will have to do with our files. Basically, our data are stored on their server's hard drive and that means we never know if they are actually deleted when we decide to delete our data. Maybe only the index to our data is deleted while the actual data are still stored on their server.

[arcsump]

yup. and if possible create a dummy email just for that accounts =)