Dropbox is a cloud storage service
developed by Dropbox Inc. It was released in 2007, 8 years ago from now.
Dropbox offers various data storage plans for business and students. Dropbox is
one of the most growing data storage solution in the tech market. Dropbox was a
tiny startup that was started from Y Combinator Startup Program.
Dropbox comes with a free account
with 2GB of online data storage. 2GB is enough for storing documents but if you
are thinking about storing media files like music, video or photos then 2GB is
not that much. Users can upgrade basic account to pro by paying $9.99/month. In
pro account plan, there is 1TB of storage. There are also plans for business or
teams. Users can increase their free storage upto 16GB by referring to their
friends. You can gain 1GB more by setting up a mailbox. Moreover, enabling
camera upload feature will give users another 3GB of storage. It will
automatically backup photos from your smartphone camera.
Dropbox is available on almost all
the platforms. There is app or software for Android, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry
OS, iOS, Linux, MeeGo Harmattan, OS X, Symbian, Windows NT, Windows Phone,
Windows 10 Mobile. Dropbox works by creating local folders in your PC. All
items selected will be synced automatically to that folder and uploaded into
your dropbox account. Files can be shared with others but permission editing is
not allowed on basic plan.
Pros:
- App or software available for almost all devices.
A. Easy file transfer and sharing system.
B. Options to increase free account storage upto 16GB.
- No file sharing permissions in Basic account.
A. Shared file links often do not work.