Data Storage Online

A Tour of the Costs and Characteristics of the Services Offered by Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft To Save Digital Files on Their Online Platforms

 

 

 

What is the trending today? 

 

In the Internet market, prices do not change daily, but with the passing years. Storing data a decade ago would have cost about $ 45 per gigabyte. While now worth only a few cents. Thus the evolution of storage services in the cloud started, from 2011, costs have become very cheap. And many in the industry predicted that there may be a demand from the new generations who want to have immediate access from anywhere to all your data.

Here we compared rates of five major companies, for you today.

Onedrive of Microsoft, and Google Drive are those that offer you more free space with 15GB.

Dropbox comes with 2GB free capacity, but users can opt for more space inviting friends to join the service. According to the company, referring to friends you can win upto 16GB of additional space.

The storage service iCloud Drive is free only up to 5GB. It is recommended for users of Apple but is also accessible from Windows 7 or later.

Personal files in such formats Word, Excel, PDF, etc. weigh much less than the pictures and it is possible that free gigabytes that offer different companies sufficient to store them in the cloud.

Now, if you want to store all your photos, you most likely need more than gigabytes companies offer you free. In that case you can find a plan for the space you need, paying monthly or annually.

Apple iCloud service does not offer a monthly plan for 100GB but 200GB for $ 3.99.

Onedrive of Microsoft also offers 200GB for $ 3.99.

Both Dropbox and Amazon, in addition to its free basic account only offer one option over 1TB or unlimited storage respectively.

Amazon offers unlimited cloud storage for $ 59.99 a year, ie the equivalent of about US $ 4.99 a month.

How much space do we need ?

 

It is difficult to give a reference on how many photos can be stored in 200GB for essentially depends on the size and quality with which the pictures were taken and archived.

So the numbers can vary greatly depending on the camera you use and the resolution at which the guards.

But as a reference, we offer this basic calculation assuming they are not professional photos and each photo weighs an average of 2.5MB.

1GB     400 photos.

100GB 40,000 photos.

1TB      400,000 photos.

If you're only going to store photos, the new Google Photos allows you to store images and video without limit, Flickr offers a terabyte free for this very thing.

***Remember that these numbers are only an approximate estimate and reality vary from one user to another.