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Best Free Cloud Storage for 2023: What Cloud Storage Providers Offer the Most Free Storage?

When money’s tight, getting your hands on some free cloud storage is a good feeling. The problem is that many plans offering free storage come at a price not expressed in money, either through data mining or other practices that can’t stand the light of day. We vetted several providers and came up with these best free cloud storage services.

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What Makes the Best Free Cloud Storage?

The first — and most obvious — criterion for this list is that the cloud storage service in question has to offer a free plan, and the bigger the better. Beyond that, the standard criteria for cloud storage apply: features, speed, ease of use, security, privacy and customer support.

pCloud — Best overall free cloud storage with
10GB

free and file syncing
Sync.com — 5GB free, best for security
Icedrive — 10GB free, best newcomer cloud storage
MEGA — Whopping 20GB free with no strings attached
Google Drive — 15GB free with document collaboration
OneDrive — 5GB free cloud storage but with a 100GB file size limit
IDrive — 10GB free backup storage
Koofr – 10GB of free space with great security and privacy
Dropbox — 2GB free with good syncing capabilities
iCloud Drive — 5GB free online storage for Apple users
MediaFire — 10GB free bare-bones file storage
Degoo — 100GB free backup space

pCloud, Sync.com and Icedrive constitute our top triumvirate, as they all have advanced feature sets, excellent security and privacy, and free plans ranging from 5GB to 10GB of space. MEGA, our fourth pick, offers the largest free plan (20GB) out of any quality provider on this list, but isn’t quite as polished as the top three.

Next is Google Drive and OneDrive (sporting 15GB and 5GB of free storage, respectively), both notable for their great collaboration tools and integrations, but also for their lack of privacy protection. IDrive is next, which is technically an online backup service, though it has hybrid features such as a sync folder that gets it into the running here with its 10GB free plan.

After this, our options become either very niche (as is the case with iCloud), mediocre (like Koofr or Dropbox) or downright bad, such as MediaFire and Degoo. Still, we’ve included them on the list just in case none of the higher ranked options seem like the right pick for you.

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Free Cloud Storage Plan Comparison

To make things easier, we’ve compiled a table of all the free plans mentioned above. We also clarify their storage quotas, whether or not (and how) you can expand them, and what (if any) limitations they have compared to their paid counterparts.

Service:Base Free StorageMax Free StorageLimitationspCloud2GB10GBNo zero-knowledge, no password protection, no expiration datesSync.com5GB20GB5GB sharing limit, 30-day versioning, no document previews, no Office 365 integrationIcedrive10GB10GBNoneMEGA20GB35GB (1 year, no referrals)NoneGoogle Drive15GB15GBNoneOneDrive5GB5GB250GB file-size limit, limited vault accessIDrive10GB10GBNoneKoofr10GB10GBNoneDropbox2GB18.25GBNo file-versioning, max of 3 devices, no offline access, limited access to Dropbox Transfer, no password manager, no vault, no eSign functionality, no remote device-wipeiCloud5GB5GBNoneMediaFire10GB49.6GBAds, no folder downloads, no public sharing, no password protection, no security logs, no mobile/desktop appsDegoo100GB500GBAds, 5-device limit, 365-day account inactivity, no zero-knowledge, no photo-storage maximizer, basic storage replication

Final Thoughts: Free Cloud Storage

You’ve reached the end, so that means you’ve probably made a decision on which free cloud storage service you want to try. The good thing about the price — got to love those zeros — is that, even if you don’t like pCloud (our top recommendation), you can quickly switch to one of the other products, such as Sync.com.

However, that doesn’t mean you can ignore some of the other plans on our list. Google Drive, OneDrive and iCloud are always going to get a mention, thanks to the ease with which they integrate with their respective ecosystems. You also can’t go wrong with the vast storage that MEGA provides or the drag-and-drop simplicity that Dropbox offers.

If you’ve used any of the products we’ve listed, or if you disagree with any of our comments, let us know about your experiences in the comments below. In your opinion, what is the best cloud storage (free)? Are we missing an option on our list? As always, thanks for reading.

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You forgot about weiyun storage and 11TB free space for free.
1. weiyun storage is only available for Chinese or those with a Mainland Chinese number. So yea they wouldn’t be listed here.
  1. Nope, you can actually click on a tiny link under the mobile number field and change your country 😉
    1. I will not trust a Chinese company to have my files. They have no privacy culture.
      They put cameras on the street and shame people on billboards for acting not to their standards for god sake.
      1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
        
        And soon they’ll have social credits as well, scary stuff…
      2. C’mon, I think chinese guvernment really steal as much data as Facebook, Google, WhatsApp (which I’m currently struggling with due to privacy concerns).
      3. “I will not trust a Chinese company to have my files.”
        But you trust the IS governmenthat uses your data to manufacture consent for their wars and aggressions.
      4. Right, but we can trust the US government with our privacy. It’s not like for over the past 50+ years they have been wiretapping phones, using facial rec. systems, ISP’s, Cell Service Providers, Social Networking, and many other large corporate data mines to spy on their own citizens without any warrants…….
        
        Give me a break. The US is by FAR the most corrupt when it comes to this. Not only do they do it on massive levels, they also blatantly lie to the public about it. So how could Chinese Gov be any worse than US? I think you may just be racist. lol
      5. @Matt (2019/06/13 at 04:23)
        Most of the “wake” US population probably do know that, but daren’t say anything for fear of being branded “unpatriotic”! Soudn familiar 😉
      6. I have to agree. And it has nothing to do with race or racism, it’s about a tyrannical, anti-privacy government.
      7. That’s a no-brainer!! Why would anyone trust any Chinese company with your personal data? You can bet they would use it for any evil scheme they wanted to hatch.
      8. Absolutely we cannot never trust on any Chinese products or app..they break privacy norms
      9. Agree with Alex! Anything that has to do with the Chinese (China country), privacy is a huge NO-NO and a big concern. Every data and personal information is not safe, and never private.
      10. As long as it’s the U.S. government, the one that spies on the whole world, including allies and whether or not a country it’s aware of what they’re doing, while they allowed them to operate in their country, as it happened to Japan (NSA spying on Japanese banks, politicians and companies, while they both were working in that well known global surveillance program), some people will trust them 100%, because… propaganda:
        
        U.S politicians = Good&Freedom, everybody else, especially China these days, because they’re U.S. main competitor in the economy aspect = Evil.
        
        U.S. gov. has a long history of blackmailing people in order to make them do what they want, thanks to the private information they collected from them. Then, they send their citizens to wars that only benefit the U.S. elite and corporations, while the U.S. infrastructure falls apart, since those 2 U.S. parties don’t invest on it. Those trains and subways are looking great nowadays, no?
      11. Alex. The citizens of the United States of America do the same thing. You trust your fellow citizens to not do that to you you’re a fo… well you’re just not in touch with that part of Reality. What are the Chinese going to do with your content that google and the government and fraudster organizations aren’t currently doing with it? No matter who you store your data and media with, multiple entities will have copies that go into your files. The Chinese? Americans even more so.
    2. Really? Have you had good luck so far? How long?
  2. Actually, you can sign up with phone number from anywhere. Example: for a number in the US do +1##########.
    If you need to you can sign up from their phone app which was super painless.
    
    And it’s not 11TB, it’s 1TB.
    
    If you need 4TB you can get a 360microcloud account at yunpan.360.cn.
    then all you do is log in from your phone and the desktop app and boom, 4tb.
    The only big hoop is that you need to go to your account info on 360.com and add your email so you can log in from the PC client.
    
    Just thought it’d be worth the mention.
  3. Not true, you can sign from any country, you just have to click in the link just below the edit box to select another country.
  4. I searched Google for them & there is an English version, site & app:-) 11tb for free gonna test it right away
2. Now, as of 1/16/2017 weiyun cut its free storage to 10GB per user, and you have to translate from Mandarin to sign up
3. I’m not going to trust any of my files to the Red Chinese. Ever. They are not our friends.
  1. And you trust the so-called US government after 9/11? Oy Vey!
    1. I am reading this thread and just shaking my head. Why is there even a debate about rather a person trust the Chinese or US with their data? This article is not about choosing a cloud service because of “political reasons or distrust”. It’s irreverent. The point of the article is to choose the best cloud source for your business and personal use. Some level of trust must be in place for us to even want to pay someone to store our data. And reality check, we know our data is shared worldwide so it matters not where we store it or with whom. Someone in Belize has our data right now! Smh. Either way it is best to have onsite backup of data i.e. external hard drives (1 TB or more and/or setup a backup server onsite which any end user or organization can do or learn to do) just in case the servers of the cloud provider goes down and/or gets hacked.
      1. This comment is the closest to what I was thinking reading the comments left. Everyone knows that the US and China government is not too be trusted and since one of my sister’s (seven sister’s) works for private security company who’s sole employer is the US government. Even says neither country is trustworthy. And yes I been to Beijing China visiting Awsome. Living, I’ll pass. About the same feeling living in the US also.
    2. I’m betting that you never set your put on China. At least in US, you can free to criticize government and access youtube/etc and express your opinion. The very fact that you are comparing US to China as equal censorship just tells me you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
      1. LMAO.
        Seriously? You are responding to this? You don’t even know if the person you’re responding to is a concerned citizen, or a Chinese operative trying to sow doubt and dissent!
        Good Lord, do you really thing it matters? If you do, feel free to choose a domestic solution, not a Chinese one!
        I mean, really…
      2. Western media controlled by four corporations = something very close to censorship, i.e. limited distributed content. You are free to say whatever to your own small choir. Sometimes it helps, but still, like censorship.
    3. Trust neither. But I rather the US govt invades than the CCP-igs.
4. LAMO
  
  TELEGRAM
  
  PROVIDES UNLIMITED STORAGE
How can we be sure that our files will never be lost, e.g., when the company goes out of business or decides to end its online storage service? I need to learn more about the history and future direction of each company before I entrust my precious files to them.
1. The best of these are media fire,one drive and mega
  1. You literally listed off the worst three.
    1. This first file I backed up to one drive, the very first KMS crack, is still there. I never back up private data to the cloud… But onedrive, gdrive, and MEGA all have my files after years. Apple lost my stuff *twice.
    2. True
2. This is the thing which happened to me . I was signed in a small cloud storage which after decided to end their service after 5 years. They sent me a email regarding that and i was sent a link for downloading all files or another was quite interesting. They were giving me WD disk with all my cloud files loaded in that at a discounted price. The service is big , so something solution may be figured out
3. You can always use more than one as a backup, and have n copies of each file stored on n storage sites.
4. you cannot, so you should always perform a utility check, to ensure continuing service.
“ADrive is a company that believes in free storage.”

not anymore 🙁 they’re cutting off their free plan and turning adrive into premium only…
Thanks for the heads up about Adrive. Never received an email saying it was closing the free account (nor did 2 friends I checked with). Signed on today and see I need to move 45GB of data – grrrr!
1. Just wanted to post my experience, I’ve been using Degoo for a while now. Yes sure it may not be as good as the big names out there but I found something interesting,,, i don’t know if it was because I’m an old user for the app or not, but the more videos I watch on the app the more space I get, I have 2 TB as of now and it still increases when I watch videos.. Sometimes it gets stuck for 3 days to upload something but in the end it does, there are two options to upload :either by the app or the web browser.
  The web browser is better at uploading but the problem lies when it’s something above 512 mb. Other than that it’s fairly nice for a free cloud storage.
What happens to my data if company fails and is extinct?
I’d go for MEGA top of the list but who knows how secure files are in it.
Hi,
Thanks for the list, before I always stick with the 3 well known cloud service company and now I have others to use. I will create account on each service on your list.
1. Thanks for the feedback, Yunar. Glad to be of service!
2. MEGA is well known, and it also offers even better encryption than GDrive or any of the others, and it doesn’t send your data to the NSA whenever they ask for it (I think they will delete stuff to comply with DMCA takedown requests, you know, so they don’t get sued and shut down again)
Hi everyone,
I’m using one-drive, google-drive, drop box, and also I started to use Mega.
I don’t know which one is secure and I will not lose my files, and which of these cloud drives are safe and trust-able.
Thank you.
1. Hi Sayed, that is a smart question, with lot’s of opinions, I’m sure. It also happens to be something I’ve been learning a lot about myself lately :). Personally, I like to use two options: I use Google Drive for work because I like the tools, while I use a Sync for personal files, because of it’s zero knowledge architecture, which is best for security. But I do like Mega, too, which is also zero knowledge. We have many articles on good cloud storage solutions that will help you learn more about this. Such as: https://www.cloudwards.net/which-cloud-storage-has-the-best-security/
2. I am using these also, g-drive and mega both with 15gb are okay. you can use multiple accounts of g-drive and you can collect all data in one g-drive.
Mega sounds attractive, but isn’t this started by Kim Dotcom of Megaupload fame? He is currently being hounded by the U.S. Department of Justice.
I use a simple copies rule:
“If you have a one copy (of your files), it’s like you don’t have any copy. If you have two copies, consider you have one. If you have three copies, consider you have two.”

So I try to have at least two or three copies of my important files in different places – external HDD or cloud. I don’t trust in any cloud service 100%. You never know when the day X will come and they’ll quit their service.
Unfortunatelly we are more and more forced into paid subscriptions. Some months ago, there was a myriad of free storage services like Copy, Surdoc, MEOCloud, LG Storage, and so on… Then, one by one, these services started to stop its activities (MEOCloud didn’t stop, but limited the use for Portuguese users). I Still use Mega, Dropbox, pCloud, Yandex, Degoo (to backup a folder of my PC), Hubic, BOX, MediaFire, Amazon Cloud Drive and Asus Webstorage for free. But as I can’t neither complain nor get surprised if the above mentioned companies shut down their free storage services, I had to sign up for a 100 GB Google Drive account for USD 1.99/mo and I got a 1-year-free 1 TB account at MS Onedrive because I bought an Office 360 subscription. P.S.: I felt particularly upset about LG Cloud Drive because it was the one cloud software available in my smart tv. But, life goes on. Now, I must focus on my Google Drive and OneDrive. I still use the other existing services, but only in rare cases.
Awesome suggestion. I personally use Dropbox and Google drive to store my website backup and other personal files. But my storage size is almost exhausted and currently looking for best alternatives.
It is said that Degoo doesn’t save other user’s data to your hard disk any more(p2p), they use the mainstream servers now but reading the terms and conditions you agree to just that. So do they or don’t they?
Hi,everyone!
A few thoughts on the storage business.
1.I completely agree with Dave’s comment (Unfortunately,
we are more and more forced into paid subscriptions. )
2.DEGOO- it might be lovely but it’s a problem to switch
(log in-log out) to another account—their help says you
have to rename an account to log in to a different on) —
cumbersome,time consuming and boring.What happens
if I have to use up to 20 accounts per day?
3.YUNPAN 360 CN (WANGPAN) — Although they claim 36
TB the upload is extremely slow on my PC with 100
mbps !!! Yakkk!!!
4.WEIYUN (TENCENT) – Uploading is limited and a propos,
do you you all have a good command at Chinese? Only
the simplified version of it? LUCKY YOU !!!

In a nutshell — back to square one?
I’ve tried many, but Mega, Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive are the best…pCloud is greatoo…II use it to stream music
I personally use the iCloud for my photos and documents and have a another backup on Mega. $1/month for 50GB is pretty decnt and Mega is free which is even better. But I need more storage and don’t wanna pay $10/ month for a TB storage so how bout open source services?
Has anyone used any of them? I would love to get some feedback on some of these services such OwnCloud, NextCloud, SeaFile, Tonido, Pydio and many more!
1. I can highly recommend nextcloud if you have a bit of the knowledge and/or patience required to get it up and running!
Thanks for this list of cloud service providers. From what i can observe, it seems like you take your time to research the information. Good job and Kundos to you. I hope in the future when you revisit the list you may also want to include a service provider called zoolz.com. They are running a sign-up promotion of 100GB. I just signed up with them so my take of their service is good thus far.
I’m just curious, why did no one mention Box, which seems to have a favourable choice of applications and is strong on the sharing?
Could some one express his/her experience with Box?
1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
  
  Hi Robert,
  
  We’re actually working on an in-depth Box review right now, which will be published within a week or two. However, as free storage space goes, Box would still not end up in our top five, here.
  
  Thanks,
  Fergus (chief editor)
Ha! All of them are pretty poor for my needs (at least 1 TB) and I have a very poor Internet connection, so it’s profitable to just buy external HDDs which are now very cheap. Or even a NAS.
1. Same here dude. my 1TB External HD already been full, and none of these free cloud sites could provide 100GB free storage.
2. An external HDD is *NOT* the same as a cloud backup for several reasons, if you are concerned with your data still being there tomorrow (or some time after that even).
  
  Cloud services are not located in your living room or basement (or wherever your PC is located). If your house burns down, floods, or gets blown up by a tornado, all of your data is gone… and that’s no matter HOW many copies of it you keep on various devices all over your… eh, neighborhood?
  
  Also, at least some cloud services probably backup data, or at least tend to their servers to ensure data integrity. A house burglar does not have such concerns.
  1. You know, you can always bury it in the ground. How is it gonna burn then?
  2. If you already have a safety deposit box you could put your hard drive there too.
5 gb, 10 gb 15 gb or even 50gb is just not enough for me. Why not use my own cloud server ? Every cloud storage sneaks on your files (encryption is more or less secure), google drive ? LOL !!! I am using a WD My Cloud with 3TB WD Red NAS drive (cost 150€) and 2 WD Green drives of 3TB each in RAID1 (250€) as backup of the NAS. For sharing files with friends just upload to Mega or Mediafire and send them the link by email, whatsapp, sms. As for file security, I don’t give a damn about the online encryption, as I always share my files encrypted by default (.7z, aes 256, strong pass). This is my case, everybody is free to spend their money as they wish, I just don’t feel that my files are safe in any cloud, other than MY OWN !
Wow you guys really need to study up on the meaning of the word “free”
1. Cloudwards.net
  
  Every cloud storage service listed in this article has a free plan and we discuss those free plans. Not sure what you’re missing.
hey if I use google drive as I do now. When I delete the files on my computer, will they all so disappear from Google Drive?
Just curious, I don’t really want any files on my computer if I can leave them in the cloud somewhere.
ty for any answers.
1. Cloudwards.net
  
  Normally, yes, they’ll disappear in Google Drive if you delete them on your computer. However, cloud storage wouldn’t be nearly as useful if it didn’t help you save hard drive space … You can do that by using Google Drive’s selective sync feature, which lets you turn file sync off for folders. Do that, and any files in that folder will be removed from our computer but still in the cloud. You’ll find instructions in your guide on using Google Drive: https://www.cloudwards.net/how-does-google-drive-work/
2. its called sync (connect in 2 way.. from gadget to server also server to gadget).. so everything changes in any gadgets will affect the server too.. best way to manage this by log it out.. or uninstall the sync client
Just a quick observation to those commenting on using a Chinese cloud rather than a US one. To be honest with you I’d trust the Chinese with my data a whole lot more that the USA at the moment
hubic is a product of a huge French webhosting company, OVH. So however valid your other concerns may be (have not checked), it’s not likely to disappear overnight.
1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
  
  Yet they announced last month that they were shutting down…. https://www.cloudwards.net/best-hubic-alternatives/
To all the people saying “why not build your own cloud server?”, sure that would be great if we all had the cash and know-how to do it, but this is an article on free cloud storage sites that require little to no technical knowledge or financial investment to store and access files remotely, so your not really being that helpful.
You’re hating on hUBIC for not encrypting the files stored on the drive. But I promise not a single cloud storage provider encrypts your files. How the hell do you think they can display convenient previews for your files, like with pictures? Google even does that for RAW camera files, so no way the browser is doing it.

If you want encryption on your cloud storage, you gotta use a archiver tool like 7-Zip, and compress your stuff with a password before uploading it.

Even IF they use encryption. Who has the key? There’s no way of knowing wether the provider has the key or not. So even if they perform encryption on your files, they can decrypt whenever the hell they please.
1. Cloudwards.net
  
  Most cloud storage services encrypt files at rest on their servers. You can verify that with the cloud service, itself. They might be lying, of course, but that would just put them in serious legal trouble (especially those that claim to be HIPAA compliant). Hubic, Amazon Drive and OneDrive Personal are among those that do not encrypt files at rest. Yes, most services that do encrypt also keep the encryption keys, which is what lets them allow file previews, streaming, etc. Metadata is often left in plain text, too, for indexing. However, the actual files on the server are usually scrambled, which helps to prevent unauthorized access. It isn’t perfect security, but its better than not encrypting them. There are a handful of cloud storage services that don’t keep encryption keys, such as Sync.com (which is why Sync.com doesn’t provide file previews, btw). That’s why we tend to recommend Sync.com and other so-called zero-knowledge services above Dropbox, Google Drive and other big name services. We do suggest in other cases using Boxcryptor or another encryption service to protect files, whether they’re encrypted by the cloud storage service at rest or not. Thanks for your comment. Take a cold shower.
2. Better to use software like Duplicati or Duplicacy than to just pack all files with an encrypted archive
you can get free unlimited google drive storage with .edu gmail.:D
1. what ? can you specified how to get that ?
  1. Google for Education is a free service that school administrators can sign up for and offer their staff and students.
Thank you ( everyone) for such a great article and discussion. I am just beginning the shift from USB storage devices to cloud storage. I downloaded DropBox and 2GB was just not enough for me to get started. I need 10GB. I will definitely try some of the excellent suggestions mentioned.
Yahoo offers 1TB for free…
1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
  
  No it doesn’t. It offers tons of mail storage and integrations with Dropbox and Flickr, but Yahoo offers no storage of its own.
Mega is by far the best one. I don’t get why it is always underrated in these lists
1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
  
  Well, we kinda explain that: 35GB of your free storage just disappears and your files with it. We link to our full MEGA review in the article if you’d like to know more.
You just nailed it. Every single cloud storage service/app I use is on the list. I love Mega and Mediafire so much because of the simplicity and speed the service offers. Box and a few others are missing but the list packs just the best. Thank you!
I am more interested in which cloud service is particularly best for backing up entire apps/apks rather than only backing up the data of them or the even more basic; photo, contact, calendar backups
Received an email that my Legacy gDrive “free” allowance will NOT be automatically restored when the Chromebook two-year 100 GB promo has run it’s clock out, for me in early December 2019. A Google One Support Rep wrote an email that Google expects to migrate Legacy users of Drive to a FEE basis on gOne.
This has not been widely publicized, and therefore I will not accept such migration. I believe there will be an upswelling of user protest when it is known Google is backing off the modest 15 GB free storage allowance. SPEAK UP !
My favorite cloud storage is Google Drive, btw, thanks for the list
Question: what do you think about mail.ru? 10 GB free storage. Known troubles? Thx
1. Cloudwards.net – Writer, Former Chief Editor
  
  Good question. I have never heard of this provider or used it, but I’d be leery of anything with a .ru domain as the Russian government has a habit of spying on its citizens, as you can read here. https://www.cloudwards.net/best-vpn-for-russia/
2. Do not use these services in any way. Any services from Russia.
  Since your data is guaranteed to be analyzed spec. services and will be used against you.
  
  At Mail. RU and Yandex in Russia and in the post Soviet space have a very bad reputation (justified, and conclusive). Mail RU group is a monopolist who bought and / or forcibly seized ALL the most popular services in Russia, all social services. networks, and in general almost 9 out of 10 popular resources in the Russian Federation belong physically to one person, who is a thief, a rapist, and cooperates with the authorities in the Russian Federation.
  
  Be sure to find information about how in Russia for likes and repost messages in social. nets – imprisoned. Already more than 5 thousand people have been imprisoned, but you are not told about it on your television.
  
  How this happens: someone wrote something in the social. networks, and another person simply pressed a heart over this message – and for that (yes, yes, this is absurd, but true), a person is put in jail, a criminal case is initiated, tried, and so on.
  
  You may not believe me, but google the information, you will be unpleasantly surprised that such a thing exists. This is a direct analogy with North Korea.
  
  Now in terms of legal and reasonable: Mail. RU and its owner, as well as the owner of Yandex and their entire team, as well as Kaspersky and other companies from the Russian Federation – have been proven through court blocked in the territories of MANY countries as companies promoting and developing international terrorism, the occupation of other territories. As companies that collected data in their soc. networks and used and analyzed these data against other states, as well as disseminated propaganda. Cheated, manipulated, and so on.
  
  Mail. RU group is the de facto largest and largest company of which belongs to 9 out of 10 of the largest communities in the Russian segment of the Internet. And this company is directly connected with the government and cooperates with it directly transferring user data, all their information, visits, history of working with the application, and so on – to the appropriate authorities.
  
  PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SERVICES OF THIS COMPANY
  1. Interesting! Who told you these things?
    And you say google this or google that…google?
  2. Well, I understand you have seen Russia only on the map, because this is absolute bullshit. Yandex is a multinational company with offices all over the world and their services a widely popular in Russia. Yes, it is analyzing social media, like Google and Facebook do. But the most bullshit part is about imprisoning people for writing to social networks. Believe it or not, in this matter Russia has more freedom than US and many EU countries. Try to visit this country sometimes and stop spamming discussions.
    1. The most bullshit part is about your ignorance:
      https://meduza.io/en/feature/2015/02/09/there-s-no-such-thing-as-an-accidental-repost
      https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/05/06/russian-man-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-social-network-repost-a52798
      http://vectornews.eu/news/world/19670-russian-citizen-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-repost-crimea-is-ukraine-in-social-network.html
      https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-supreme-court-review-conviction-video-repost/28338293.html
The ill-advised 1TB, Yahoo owned, Flickr storage has gone now that it’s been sold off to SmugMug. People were using it for photo backup with their whole collections set to private and not actually photo sharing which was the point of the website. Genealogists, for instance, were using it to backup their research – all of their images of saved census records and birth, marriage and death forms.
Take care with the free storage – on many you will lose your account and ALL YOUR FILES if you don’t login at least once every six months. You top pick pCloud started with no login requirement, then at least every 1yr and now (since mid 2018) every six months. You do get a warning email sent to the account holder’s email but only 5 days before deletion. Go on holiday and come back to find no account.
1. I had the same experience with pCloud so won’t go near it with a barge pole.
Thanks I get free unlimited storage from Google Drive for life but looking for a free back up storage for my most important files.
Well Icedrive is another free storage I use and, I read many articles related to free storage but couldn’t find Icedrive anywhere. I suggest Icedrive because it is similar to G-Drive and I have 20 Gb free storage for life. Thank You, Wish this helped someone.
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  We actually like Icedrive a lot, we just haven’t updated this article since publishing the review https://www.cloudwards.net/review/icedrive/. Note, tho, that Icedrive currently offers 10GB, not 20.
I have tried some of these services, and now I only use Google Driver, because with 15GB of free storage I can sync multiple devices. I usually use 2-3 google accounts for 2-3 important directories. The total amount of backup I need is 20GB and for many gmail accounts I have enough storage space without worrying about losing important data.
I need to share data with two others. Has anybody had a good experiences with shared folders. I lot of the ones you are discussing doesn’t have the ability to share folders
I work with more than 1 service as I run a small business and surviving a data loss is critical. If one service is shut down I will always have the other.
I logged out of my icedrive account after testing my password and now i can’t log in anymore. It says that email or password is incorrect. Tried it many times but nothing. Lost 21 gigs of materials. And now i can’t recover my account because I don’t have the key because when i changed my phone the new authenticatior didn’t work so i opened my account without it. But now i can’t log in anymore. This provider sucks.
Hope that someone can give me a recommendation. I want a solution to have my files sync’d and that I can easily edit from my Android and save back. For different reasons, I don’t like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive or One Drive.

I’ve tested pCloud and Sync, neither of them allow me to edit and save back. Is there any other?

Thanks.
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  Well, you’re seriously narrowing the field, especially if you you also need it to be free. If not, check out Egnyte, maybe? https://www.cloudwards.net/egnyte-review/
I thought MEGA had 50 GB free storage.
I installed p-cloud in my laptop and the free version gives me only 4 GB storage! So, it is not 10 G.B. Just 4 G.B!
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  It’s up to 10GB, you start with 2GB and need to perform some tasks to get up to 10. We explain that in the piece, as well as several others.
Can any cloud storage provider fulfill my requirement for upload and download the files:

1. Unlimited data transfer or bandwidth (Like, Google drive, Sync[dot]com, Amazon S3)
2. Able to create or get a direct download link
3. Lifetime plan will be better (Like, pCloud)
4. Storage space available (2TB to 10TB)
5. File size upload limit (Min 2GB required)
6. Auto syncing feature (Like, Mega or Sync[dot]com)
7. Resume downloading feature
8. Performance (Download speed should not be limited)
9. Platform availability (Windows,Mac,Linux,iOS,Android,Web)
10. Discover files through a search option via console
11. Global data-centers
12. Accessed from anywhere
13. Cost effective
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  With a list of demands as long as that, I recommend you just try out different services till you find the right one for you.
I wont use cloud storage for long term items. It is not a good idea just to have that. I always use a external storage device at home. Cloud storage is good for sharing items thats about it.(Always use a backup storage device)
Yahoo, with 1T space, you can saving file there, although it limited 25mb for each
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if you loose password you loose your full data
I noticed there isn’t really any mention of search capabilites in the article. I’m looking for a free cloud storage service with very strong PDF search abilities – to find search terms and display the results to searches in context (e.g. show the search term in the sentence it was found in, in each specific document). Does anyone have any suggestions? The only provider I can find online that is able to do this is Dropbox, but only for the paid plans. Thanks
How much GB does a man need?

First of all, I found this article really useful. Thanks for the tips, looking forward to spreading more of my personal crap all over the cloud.

Secondly, Jeez Louise!! Was going through the comments and it was hilarious, from political mistrust to so much whining about lack of “features”. Its FREE, like the article points out, the providers are there to make a profit, and the FREE offer is to reel in potential clients.
Absolutely we can’t trust Chinese applications. They are using our data against us
Why does it not mention Google photos, where you also have unlimited photos, as long as they must downsize the pictures to 12 mega pixel?
so is it safe to use dropbox? please tell me
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  It’s pretty safe indeed. Just not very private.
Oh, I see. Well, I think I should use the encrypted options. But not sure which one exactly. I must investigate further. Thanks!
Excuse me, can anyone tell me about box, I heard it gives 10 gb for free. Is box safe ?
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  Yes, Box is perfectly safe and legitimate. Check out the review here: https://www.cloudwards.net/box-review/
About Degoo You forgot yo tell about file size limit of 512MB on the free plan.
Some companies are offering people free online storage of documents and photographs

the only logical conclusion is that for some reason they want access to some people’s documents and pictures

I am trying to find out what is their motivation for doing so
most of the Chinese cloud company are leak all of the data and cannot secure it safely. so therefore we need the alternative resource to keep data secure.
1. Hi, curious your reliable / verifiable source(s) for this claim? Thanks 🙂
TeraBox gives you 1TB free those days. They are in Hong Kong though.
1. yes! 1Tb free! 🙂 been using TeraBox a while and works well… the interface logic, for me ( 30 years in I.T. ) is a bit challenging, but got it worked out…
Mega is best according to me. 20GB free storage with End to End Encryption.
We never trust any type of Chinese products
hello there.
I Love this content
Contrary to what has been said in some comments, Hubic is closing down this year for private users and now only serves businesses. Too bad ! It seems you missed a newcomer in Europe, Internxt, a Spanish company which claims to be highly secure and offers a free plan with 10 Gb.
Otherwise, I agree with you on sync and pcloud being real good.
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  We actually have a review for internxt: https://www.cloudwards.net/review/internxt/
How is pcloud in the first place? they gave me 2gb storage and and additional 1gb after verifying my account. the rest is locked and no idea how to unlock it
At the top they say is for 2023, but is not even updated, degoo only offers 20 GB on its free plan. Plus other changes on its conditions.