My other advice: Try not to pay list price for cloud storage if you can help it. In my case, that device is an HP laptop running Windows 10, so I pay for OneDrive to sync its documents, photos and music. My advice: Let the computer that most needs online backup – meaning the device that spends the most time out of the house and holds the most content in need of safekeeping – drive your cloud choice. ►Unfriending Facebook: How to deactivate or permanently delete your Facebook accountīeyond those three, you can also buy cloud storage from the likes of Dropbox, where 2TB runs $119.88/year, while Amazon Prime subscribers get unlimited Amazon Photos storage those third-party services, however, lack their integration with major computing platforms. ►How to get it together: 5 tips to help you organize your iPhone, Android apps and control the chaos Google, as far as I’m aware, does not offer any discounts for pre-paying for an annual plan.Google’s backup service does not come with add-ons to match Apple and Microsoft’s – but it’s also your only recourse for a Gmail inbox that’s grown beyond your ability to keep it under the 15 GB line. Paid plans for Microsoft’s OneDrive, which offers 7GB of free storage, start at $25 per year for 50GB of storage and 100GB costs $50 ( Update: looks like there is also a somewhat hidden monthly option, which starts at $4.49/month for 50GB).
Dropbox, for example, charges $9.99 a month for 100GB. Google’s new prices significantly undercut those of many of its competitors in this space. You can now sign up for these new plans here and if you’ve already subscribed, you’ll automatically be subscribed “to a better plan at no additional cost,” Google says in the announcement today. Just like before, the additional storage works across Drive, Gmail and Google+ Photos.
If you really need a lot of online storage space, you can also get 10 terabytes for $99.99 a month and then add more storage from there in 10 terabyte steps (so 30 terabytes will set you back $299.99 per month).įor most people, even a terabyte of storage should be more than enough for a long time to come, even if you store lots of high-res images on Drive. The first 15GB of storage remain free, but 100GB now costs just $1.99 per month instead of $4.99.Įven more impressively, though, you can now get a terabyte of online storage for $9.99 a month, down from $49.99. Google today significantly dropped the prices for its Google Drive online storage service.
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