I have Dropbox with 50GB or so free storage which I got when I bought my Samsung Galaxy S4 on top of whatever small amount I had (48gb it gave me I think). I somehow missed the point that this was only for 2 years and have since made fair use of it. Now that time is coming to an end, I have been asked to pay. Being a stereotypical Skoda owner, there is no way on earth I am paying £7.99 a month for Dropbox! £7.99 is for 1TB and tbh 50GB ish is all I need as a handy wee holding area. 

 

Are there any good reliable alternatives out there which I can use? Free would of course be good, but I just don't value dropbox as much as they do. At this moment I am backing up my Dropbox folder into several locations offline :(

No one will offer much above 15gb for free.

Options are use the 15gb free at Google, Dropbox, one drive etc to get near your 50gb,or pick someone and pay.

Not sure what Microsoft and Google charge

Owncloud on a cheap VPS storage server.

 

The one I use is $12 a month, so thats more than DBox, I also have the big Dropbox account so I can just dump stuff on it, it works :(

 

Several locations also works, at least bases are covered for a few scenarios. 

 

Although I am thinking something else might work for trusted 'friends' of briskoda as my vps is 500gb disk so thats 10 people roughly, if only for 'photos' etc then it's an option... It would be better on a dutch server Ummmmmmmm now I'm thinking.

What would be a good price per year for 50Gb?

 

I could make a BRISKODA instance, each user has individual area with a 'shared' option.

MS office 365 personal is £5.99 a month comes with 1tb of cloud storage. (60mins of Skype calls and of course office for 1pc and 1phone.) The home version is £7.99 (which is the same as above but for 5users).

100gb with Google is $2/month

Copy.com might still be able to get you 50GB in referrals if you have enough friends to sign up...they introduced referral caps after people were getting hundreds of gigabytes for free but you can still get a fair amount.

Buy an Office 365 annual license from Ebay. 1Tb for £40 ish. + office if you want it.

100gb with Google is $2/month

 

That seems like the best value all rounder to suit my needs over the Dropbox pricing, but google likes to mess with photos putting them in google photos or something I read on a review segregating them ish. Shocked that Dropbox is still only 2gb free basic account without referrals, when most offer 10/15GB. Copy.com might end up being the way forward and just use it as a temp storage float rather than a safe backup. 

That seems like the best value all rounder to suit my needs over the Dropbox pricing, but google likes to mess with photos putting them in google photos or something I read on a review segregating them ish. Shocked that Dropbox is still only 2gb free basic account without referrals, when most offer 10/15GB. Copy.com might end up being the way forward and just use it as a temp storage float rather than a safe backup. 

 

Dropbox is pretty much the closest provider to becoming a verb, in the same way that people "Google" things even when they use Bing. There's so much brand awareness around Dropbox that they barely need to demo/sell it at all - people will use it because it's what the people they know use. Whereas Copy is a relative newcomer, they need something out of the ordinary to get people in. Originally that was the referral program, but that was abused and cut back...

That seems like the best value all rounder to suit my needs over the Dropbox pricing, but google likes to mess with photos putting them in google photos or something I read on a review segregating them ish. Shocked that Dropbox is still only 2gb free basic account without referrals, when most offer 10/15GB. Copy.com might end up being the way forward and just use it as a temp storage float rather than a safe backup.

The photos issue only happens if you use android to back up your images to Google.

I'm in the same boat, same Samsung offer.

Dropbox is superb, with software compatibility with loads of apps, but paying £80 is a lot, when you're used to free.

I have Amazon prime which includes file and photo storage, but only good if you use prime already. Software seems clunky and not found owt automagic yet for folder syncing.

Not looked at the market for so long I may have to create a comparison spreadsheet cost features etc!

Probably end up using 'free' Dropbox for files and home backup, with something else for photos (about 20Gb or less from memory)

I'll update if I find anything useful / what I end up doing.

Worthy of more investigation me thinks.

Nice price, sync tool To test and will have some app integration.

I have iPhone so more app integration the better, but 'free ' Dropbox will keep me happy for that if needed.

https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-gb/plans/

Microsoft is about to cut their free storage allowances apparently.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/03/microsoft_onedrive_changes/

 

A cheap O365 license with the 1Tb storage is still not a bad deal though.

Best rescue my files before they're deleted

Buy yourself a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive and make your own web storage! That's what I have.

 

Have my own secure FTP server so I can access my files anywhere and also backup photos etc from my phone.

Buy yourself a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive and make your own web storage! That's what I have.

 

Have my own secure FTP server so I can access my files anywhere and also backup photos etc from my phone.

 

Does that require it to be running 24/7 though? Big advantage of my current DB is that I can access and upload from any otherwise stand alone system and have it backed up in multiple locations. I have about 40TB of other storage at home but as a single archive with no economical backup due to size, as such runtime is minimised on all 3.5" drives only powered up at time of necessary read/write activity. Waiting for 6TB drive prices to come down a bit more, then I will get a couple of those as I am more or less bingo on space again :( 

 40TB 

 

Yikes!!

Fubar might have links to Kim Dotcom?

Buy yourself a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive and make your own web storage! That's what I have.

 

Have my own secure FTP server so I can access my files anywhere and also backup photos etc from my phone.

I want storage outside my home for when it burns down. Or perhaps if it burns down!

But the Pi is ace!

Ah yeah good call on the house burning down scenario. I do need to think about some cloud storage options to backup my photos and videos. Everything else such as music can be downloaded again from where it was purchased.

 

And yes the Pi is running 24/7 but it uses such little power I'm not bothered. My main storage is a 3TB network drive which the pi uses. The network drive has a USB port that powers the Pi. The HDD only spins up when it's needed.

 

Phil

Is it true what a friend has advised, that the cuts in Microsoft Live storage don't apply if you have a windows 10 device?

 

If so, yet another cheeky way to force people onto Windows 10!

Is it true what a friend has advised, that the cuts in Microsoft Live storage don't apply if you have a windows 10 device?

 

If so, yet another cheeky way to force people onto Windows 10!

 

No, I think you need an O365 license to avoid the cut.

 

O365 can be had for discounted rates online at Ebay etc which can still make it decent value.