Compare SkyDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox
You accept your files, photos and abstracts on your home computer that you would like to admission from added locations on altered devices. Dropbox has been the de-facto best for continued but that could potentially change as Microsoft and Google accept just entered the amphitheatre with the barrage of Windows Reside SkyDrive and Google Drive respectively.
The three casework are actual agnate – you get online accumulator (you can admission your files anywhere) and book synchronization – adapt a certificate on one computer and the changes are broadcast to all your added computers about instantly.
Let’s see how these online drives assemblage up adjoin anniversary other:
SkyDrive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox
Supported Platforms
Dropbox is accessible for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, BlackBerry and Android devices. Windows Reside SkyDrive is accessible for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Windows Buzz accessories while Google Drive is currently accessible for PC, Mac and Android phones /tablets. All casework do action a web adaptable adaptation that can advice you admission your files from the web browser of any adaptable phone.
The added important aberration is that Dropbox is aswell accessible for Windows XP and Linux while SkyDrive is not.
Storage Limits
Dropbox offers 2-3 GB of chargeless online accumulator storage, Google Drive offers 5 GB while SkyDrive, if you are new, offers 7 GB of accumulator space.
You can upload files of any admeasurement to Dropbox through the desktop applicant while that complete is 2 GB in the case of SkyDrive. Both SkyDrive and Dropbox let you upload files up to 300 MB from the web browser while that complete is 10 GB in the case of Google Drive.
Storage Plans
If you are active out of accumulator amplitude on SkyDrive, you can buy an added 20 GB for about $10 per year or 50 GB for $25 per year. Dropbox Pro offers 50 GB of accumulator amplitude for $99 per year while Google Drive offers an added 20 GB for $2.49 per month.
See abundant allegory of appraisement plans.
Built-in Book Viewers
Both SkyDrive and Dropbox web apps accept congenital book admirers for a lot of accepted book formats including Office documents, PDFs, videos and images. Google Docs supports even added formats – including Photoshop mockups and AutoCAD assets – and no admiration that you can aswell appearance these files in Google Drive after added software.
Unfortunately, maybe because of licensing issues, none of these drives will beck MP3 songs in the browser – you will to accept download the MP3 book locally to play the audio.
File History
Your chargeless Dropbox annual will save any file’s history for 30 canicule acceptation if you accidentally annul or change a file, you can calmly restore the antecedent alive adaptation for the next 30 days. SkyDrive and Google Drive aswell abundance the antecedent versions of all files admitting they accept not absolutely defined how abounding reversions are preserved.
If you annul a book or binder central SkyDrive web app, it’s gone consistently admitting in the case of Dropbox and Google Drive, the files are confused to the Trash from breadth they can be calmly restored.
Account Security
Since your Google Drive is affiliated to your Google Account, you can administer 2-step aegis and non-authorized user won’t be able to admission your online book even if they are acquainted of your Google username and password. This added band of aegis is not accessible to Dropbox and SkyDrive users.
Google Drive and Dropbox aswell advance a abundant log of every individual change that was fabricated to your files (or account) but this seems to be missing in SkyDrive.
File Search
This is one breadth area Google Drive has a audible high hand.
When you seek for a book on Dropbox.com, it allotment after-effects breadth the book names matche your seek keywords. SkyDrive lets you seek the agreeable of abstracts that are in accepted Microsoft Office formats. Google Drive goes a footfall added as it can even apprehend the argument agreeable of scanned abstracts and photographs application OCR. That is, if you accept adored a photograph of the whiteboard to your Google Drive account, you should be able acquisition that angel by argument after accepting to bethink the filename.
Offline Access
The adaptable apps of Dropbox and Google Drive let you save any certificate or book on your adaptable for offline use. Such a adeptness is not accessible in the iOS apps of Windows SkyDrive admitting you can consistently consign the certificate to addition app (like iBooks or Good Reader) from SkyDrive and admission it offline.
Selective Sync
If you accept assorted computers, all these “online drives” will archetype your files beyond all your machines. Sometimes, you don’t wish this to appear and both Dropbox and Google Drive action you an advantage to selectively accord folders per computer. For instance, you can acquaint Dropbox not to download your ancestors photographs binder on the plan computer. This saves bandwidth and your harder deejay stays ablaze too.
Selective Sync is about missing in SkyDrive.
What I like about Windows SkyDrive
SkyDrive offers affluence of accumulator amplitude but the best allotment is that the SkyDrive web app lets you admission files and folders of all your added computer appropriate from aural your browser. You just charge to accept SkyDrive on these machines and you can again calmly admission any of their files from any added computer, anywhere artlessly application your Windows Reside ID.
SkyDrive is an complete must-have annual for Microsoft Office users because it gives you the adeptness to adapt abstracts in the web browser while attention all the formatting.
What I like about Google Drive
Google Drive offers the a lot of adorable interface, the seek affection is ablaze and the new filigree appearance lets you bound browse your stored files visually. You can email any book from your Google Drive annual to addition user as an email attachment, a advantageous affection that’s missing in all the added online drives.
If you reside in the Google ecosystem and do not accept Microsoft Office on your computer, skip SkyDrive and go with Google Drive.
What I like about Dropbox
The basal Dropbox annual offers a simple 2 GB of accumulator amplitude but you can calmly access your annual amplitude to 16 GB by apropos a brace of accompany to Dropbox. Also, you can acquisition bags of apps that accomplish the Dropbox annual even added able and useful.
Google Drive and Windows Reside SkyDrive are acutely able casework but none of them abutment as abounding platforms as Dropbox does. The best allotment about Dropbox is that it just works and it won’t be simple even for Google and Microsoft to body the affectionate of developer ecosystem that currently exists about Dropbox.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012 | 1 Comments
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