I’ve always thought of Box cloud storage as the underdog compared to Dropbox and now I know why. While Box claims 20 million users, Dropbox has 200 million users! That’s a pretty huge gap when you consider how much more free storage you get with Box.
Of course you can’t talk about cloud storage without mentioning Google Drive, especially with their recent drop in pricing — 100GB for only $1.99 per month!
The infographic, below, compares Box vs Dropbox, but it’s the stats on cloud computing that I found to be the most interesting.
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With more and more services offering free cloud storage and Google’s recent price drop, I imagine we will continue to see cloud storage getting cheaper and cheaper…
What’s your favorite cloud storage solution?
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Brad says
Both are awesome. For Windows users, it also bears mentioning OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). It’s completely integrated into the OS, and the way that it stores tiny thumbnails/placeholders of your files locally means that you can still “look” like you have 2TB of files on your local machine, while your hard drive is only 128GB.
With Office for iPad coming out last week, it looks like OneDrive will be picking up steam pretty fast.
Eric Dye says
I would imagine so. And now with Adobe Creative Cloud adding sync to their system, paid for cloud storage will need to up their game.
Robert Daniels says
For me the choice comes to OneDrive and Google Drive with their respective office suites Office and QuickOffice. Since there isn’t a great solution for GD on Windows Phone I usually use OneDrive.
I bounce around between Android, WP, BlackBerry and PC. If you are a just an Android and PC user I’d say Google is the way to go.
Eric Dye says
Yes, Google certainly has done a good job with Drive. I’ll have to try the sync app for Mac again, as the first time I used it my machine ran heavy. :-/ Price wise, though, they own the cloud storage market I think.
Bevan Kay says
I used to use Dropbox but have recently made the switch to Box.
The main reason was that at our new church (moved town) the music team use Box to manage our chord charts. I love the ability in the Box iPad app to save files for offline use, but the whole experience just seems a lot smoother to me using Box. Not to mention the fact that I have 50gb of storage at Box.
In saying all this I did enjoy using Dropbox as well. But it annoyed me on my iPhone and iPad when they were pushing to backup your iOS photos.
Eric Dye says
Yeah, that 50gb of free storage is more than enough cloud storage for a lot of users.
Enzo S. says
There is another option that I have just gotten up and running on a Ubuntu Server called OwnCloud. Avoid the costs and limitations, very easy to install and has a great web interface. I am currently exploring options to have my own iOs interface.
Eric Dye says
Yes, OwnCloud is a fine solution for the self-hosted route. 🙂
dave says
It feels like I use them all. I seem to sign up as early on as possible, when they are giving away more storage. Dropbox: is my go to for sharing folders with business clients.
Copy: (copy.com) is really quite nice. I use this to store design and development assets
OneDrive: (I used to be a WP8 user, so I have like 30G) is so, so for me, especially with my MAC, but I do back up my photos and videos from my iPhone to it for redundancy
iCloud: Probably the least useful for me. I like to manage my own files and folders.
Box: I have it, but barely use it
Cubby: have it, but never use it…it’s kinda weird
Ubuntu One: have it but don’t use it…didn’t like it, cumbersome
OwnCloud: installed it on our server, but it wasn’t robust enough to use how we wanted to in our church
Eric Dye says
Phew! 😀
dave says
I know right? I just can’t seem to help myself when they dangle free GB’s of storage…
Eric Dye says
LOL
Chandos says
I use a mix between Dropbox and Copy. Both integrate really well into OSX. And iCloud for my docs as I’m an iWork and Pixelmator user.
I gave up on Box because of the pathetic upload size. It may have changed by now, but when I first signed up it was a 50mb upload limit….with 50gb of storage. It made no sense, other than that I assume they just wanted me to sign up for a paid account.
Eric Dye says
Yeah, that’s a pretty lame limit. :-/
I’ve got Dropbox and Copy running, too. Not to mention the ability to use my OneDrive and Adobe CC space, too. I like to keep it all in one place, though. 🙂
Joel Sam says
Nice. I haven’y tried Copy as yet. What are it’s strengths?
Eric Dye says
We did a review a while back (link) — check out James Coopers thoughts on it if you like. 🙂
Aaron says
Duracell Cloud covers both your on-site backup and cloud backup needs with their hybrid cloud appliance. With multi-site video churches that I deal with it sure beats driving the sermon SD card around on a deadline, thankful for all of the cloud services out there. We use DropBox as well, but really like the NAS device that comes with the Duracell Cloud service for quick recovery times. Windows, MAC, Linux…good to go
Eric Dye says
Cool! We’ll have to take a look at Duracell Cloud.