Google Drive and iCloud have the most flexible options of the four.īoth Google and Apple offer the most flexible options in terms of pricing and storage. Apple charges $19.99 per month for one terabyte of space.
Google Drive and Dropbox tie for the second cheapest option at $9.99 for one terabyte of storage. And, Microsoft throws in an Office 365 subscription with that price, which is an excellent deal. You get a whole terabyte (or 1,000GB) of storage for just $6.99 per month. If you need a lot of storage, Microsoft's OneDrive is the cheapest. Microsoft's OneDrive is the cheapest if you need a whole terabyte of space. If you're have a Pro account (meaning you pay for 1TB of storage), you get 1GB instead of 500MB each time you refer someone. Both those companies lease 2TB of space for $2 per month, or twice the amount from Microsoft but for the same number of dollars.Dropbox gives you an extra 500MB of storage each time you get a friend to sign up, and you can earn up to 16GB through referrals. Microsoft's prices for added storage are higher than its main rivals in the consumer market, Apple and Google. Some Computerworld staffers based in the U.S. Personal Vault has debuted in some markets, and should be available globally by year's end, according to Microsoft. Personal Vault, Microsoft said, would be accessible only through a second step of identity verification, such as a fingerprint, face scan or one-time codes texted to the user's smartphone. Around the same time, Microsoft also touted something it called OneDrive Personal Vault, a protected partition for storing the most sensitive and important files. In June, Microsoft announced plans to provide supplementary storage to Office 365 Personal and Office 365 Home subscribers but did not tip to a timetable. "For Home subscriptions, only the primary subscription holder may purchase additional storage, and only for that user's account," the tiny type read. In fine print at the bottom of the plans' presentation page, Microsoft said that the additional space would not be accessible to every user on an Office 365 Home plan.
The additional OneDrive space would be atop the 1TB. The consumer Office 365 plans provide 1TB of OneDrive storage space for the account holder, in the case of the single-user Personal, or for each of six possible users, under Home's rules. The additional support is available only to customers who already subscribe to Office 365 Personal or Office 365 Home, the two consumer-targeted plans whose primary benefit is the right to run Office on Windows or macOS. The extra storage starts at $2 per month for 200GB and climbs to $10 per month for 1TB (terabyte). Microsoft today began selling additional space on its OneDrive cloud-based storage service to customers who subscribe to its consumer-grade Office 365 plans.
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