The basic version is free and can handle anything most freelancers or online solo business owners need. I backup all of my freelance articles that I write in Word in my Dropbox folder, plus I have backups of website projects, personal files, business files, and collaborations I’ve worked on with others through powerful Dropbox shared folder features. (I went with the annual version to save $20 per year)ĭropbox is amazing because it syncs files between all of your computers and devices and allows sharing to anyone else. Dropbox Plus costs $9.99 per month or $99 per year. I currently have about 100GB in my Dropbox. I had a free account for years, but recently upgraded to the paid Dropbox Plus version with 1TB of included online storage after overfilling my Dropbox and backup drives too many times. While I had a Box.net account first, Dropbox was the first app that really got me into cloud storage.
The cloud is the future of business and computingĭropbox: Best for general files and sharingĭropbox is my go-to online storage system.Manage them all with Otixo or Primadesk.OneDrive: Best for Microsoft Office collaboration and general files.Google Drive: Best for photos and Google Docs collaboration.Dropbox: Best for general files and sharing.If you have a PC laptop with limited hard drive space, this is a no-brainer. The cloud becomes your hard drive and you PC is reserved for the super important stuff.
While Dropbox has "selective sync", you'll find the implementation of Air Live Drive a lot simpler for situations where you really don't want ANY of the dropbox files on your PC. You no longer have to clutter your hard drive with your Dropbox files but at the same time, you'll have access to them as if they were on your local hard drive. Your cloud drive is just another drive in File Explorer. However, for the new laptops that come with a small SSD drive, adding a 1TB dropbox account would kill it.Īir Live Drive fixes this by creating a drive folder on your PC that allows you to interact with the Dropbox files as if they were on your PC. We use Dropbox because of the convenience of sharing files with our clients and there is a local copy on our servers. That might be OK on your desktop if you've got a huge hard drive but even some of these cloud drives can take up a gig of space. Most of the cloud drive services keep a local copy on your hard drive.
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