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the cloud isn't some complicated idea that only techies can understand despite its name the cloud is simply the concept of story and accessing your content over the Internet as opposed to directly from your computer that's it so here are some of the best ways to store and access your files folders and media online for free Google Drive is the one I use most primarily for work but also for personal docs and projects honestly pretty much everything I type is at least in an untitled Google Drive document somewhere drive offers 15 gigabytes of free storage now unfortunately that spread across all Google services including gmail so if you send a large attachment it counts against your storage now just to be clear this isn't a pure cloud storage option it's more like online office not to be confused with Microsoft's Office online of course drives great you can pretty much store anything you want but if you have a Google account you already have access to it so you likely have some experience with it now if you want to just purely store data in the cloud here are three services that are perfect for doing just that any files you copy into your sync folder will show up in your cloud drive so you'll be able to access the file from anywhere and even if you delete the sync files from your computer you'll still be able to go to the internet and access them each of these services allow you to share files with anyone else through email and each includes apps for both Android and iOS if you're interested in getting an initial 10 gigabytes of storage for free check out box the interface here is simple and appealing but keep in mind for the problem with box is that there's a 250 megabyte file size limit not very large if you're planning to store audio or video though most pics we'll make it through just five you can upgrade to a 100 gigabyte capacity and increase the minimum file size to five gigabytes now Microsoft onedrive is useful for both windows and mac users and it gives you an initial 15 gigabytes of storage capacity it also supports up to two gigabyte file sizes also for every friend you get to sign up you get an extra 500 megabytes of storage up to five gigabytes for a total of 20 gigabytes if you sink one drive with your phone's camera you also get an extra three gigabytes of storage now what's really cool is that if I download one drive to this computer I can then go to another remote computer log into my onedrive account and then access every file on this computer regardless of whether it was synced or not also if you're willing to pay two dollars per month you get 100 gigabytes of storage and for four dollars you get a whopping 200 gigabytes pretty great deal if you need a lot of storage lastly there's Dropbox now this may be the most popular of the pure cloud storage services reason being it supports the most platforms including Linux and blackberry now right off the bat you only get two gigabytes of storage but like one drive each time you get a friend to join you get an extra 500 megabytes of storage added up to a limit of 16 gigabytes also by linking your account to social media sites like Facebook or Twitter or setting up a mailbox account you get an extra one gigabyte for each of those or enable the camera upload feature and get another three gigabytes so although dropbox storage start slow you can easily increase it at no additional cost and if you're using the app or desktop program there's no file size limit for about ten dollars per month you can upgrade to pro which gives you 100 gigabytes of storage for twenty dollars you'd get two hundred megabytes and for fifty dollars you get 500 gigabytes all these options are great for storing your data in the cloud overall onedrive has the best features and is the best bang for your buck