Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services : Unbiased Again

Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services is indeed the most important point when the question of protecting,maintaining your valuable digital content comes. Price has nothing to do with Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services. Price has never any relationship with Quality. A bad product can be packaged well and sold as a good quality product at high price.

Before you read this article on Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services

Before you read this article on Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services, we are taking that you are a regular reader of this website and has read our list of Cloud Computing Storage Companies, Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing, Our Top 10 Pick among Free Cloud Storage services.

Again and again we are warning that free cloud services might have risk and one must check Service Level Agreement before using a free Cloud Service for serious work.

Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services

We can not test hundreds of Cloud Storage Services, it is honestly not practical, our list of Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services contains only Industry’s Standard brands well known for their services.

Rackspace Cloud Drive :  10GB of storage per user, excellent support and costs $4 per month. Cloud Drive will automatically back up the files and folders you select. Back up any file type or file size. No restrictions on file size, there might be restriction on file size by your Operating System.

Cloud Files :  Pay as you grow pricing model at 15¢/GB/Mo based on Akamai CDN. Its also from Rackspace and doubles up as CDN. Has API support.

Amazon Cloud Drive :  5 GB of free online storage, 50 GB  will cost you $50 / year. Nothing new to say about Amazon’s Cloud Services.

Dropbox  : The biggest point of Dropbox is its very simple and easy to use but has excellent API support, dedicated WordPress plugins etc. Up to 18 GB (2 GB + 500 MB per referral) is free. I have already earned 18.25 GB from referrals within few days, +1 GB per referral, up to +32 GB will cost $9.99/month.

SkyDrive : 7 GB is free, with $10/year, you can add 20 GB to your free storage. However lacks flexibility (quality is good) when compared with Rackspace Cloud Files, Amazon Cloud Drive or Dropbox.

In this post on Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services, we will say all of these 5 are equally good, yes one might have some extra features while others lacks it, the selection depends on usage pattern.