Looking for a free cloud storage, advice

Magic_x_uk · 4 Sep 2017 at 20:49

Hi. My partner who uses a USB thumb stick for work is looking for a cloud based storage system

So she can store work files on and access at home and work as worried one day she may loose or forget her USB stick.

Which ones are worth looking at that are free. Don't need a huge amount of storage.

Thanks you

Orcvader · 4 Sep 2017 at 21:08

OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox are the usual options. I use a mix and have had no issues with them.

ED209 · 4 Sep 2017 at 21:08

You could use dropbox which has a free 2GB account or if you have google account maybe use google drive?

I use dropbox free and no issues at all for my needs

Steveocee · 5 Sep 2017 at 19:53

Dropbox is really good for free, there's a few extra bits of storage you can earn by engaging various social platforms and stuff so it makes enhances the storage.

Depends what she's working on really. How much does she need?

Glanza · 6 Sep 2017 at 08:58

Any of the free ones, if it's photos she works on Amazon Drive might be a option as you get unlimited photo storage.

Stoner81 · 6 Sep 2017 at 12:47

Google Drive is my vote, 15GB free and if you do upgrade it's £1.59 a month for 100GB! Bargain!

Stoner81.

Caged · 6 Sep 2017 at 23:43

Yeah I wouldn't let 'free' be the deciding factor here unless you don't have a suitable payment method for various reasons.

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Sep 2017 at 00:21

There’s a lot of free ones for a small amount of storage. If you want too make your own cloud solution try own cloud or pydio. I like pydio but it’s harder too get your head around for the config.

Raumarik · 7 Sep 2017 at 20:28

Make sure her employer is happy with her putting work files on cloud storage.

zeegy · 8 Sep 2017 at 12:27

i would like to give a shout for hubic. 25Gb for free, 100gb for 1 euro a month or 10tb for 5 euro a month

https://hubic.com/en/

Stoner81 · 8 Sep 2017 at 12:54

zeegy said:
i would like to give a shout for hubic. 25Gb for free, 100gb for 1 euro a month or 10tb for 5 euro a month
https://hubic.com/en/

That's pretty damn good and it's run by OVH too

EDIT - I have joined up since it would be rude not to

I will check out the desktop app later on tonight and depending on how it works I might have to switch some things round.

Stoner81.

Cromulent · 10 Sep 2017 at 19:33

zeegy said:
i would like to give a shout for hubic. 25Gb for free, 100gb for 1 euro a month or 10tb for 5 euro a month
https://hubic.com/en/

That's a lot of porn for 5 euros.

ubersonic · 25 Sep 2017 at 15:53

I would advise against Onedrive, I used it for a decade until this year when I moved to Google Drive after Microsoft decided to remove 80% of my storage to try and coax me onto their paid 1TB plan (yeah awesome plan, worked almost as well as shutting down MSN messenger to force users to switch to the less popular Skype software lol). Wouldn't trust MS with a barge pole after that mess.

chroniclard · 25 Sep 2017 at 16:07

Office 365 subscriber, get 1 TB "free" with OneDrive. Works ok for me.