It’s easy to overlook these factors when choosing.Īll cloud storage lets you send a link to friends, family or colleagues so they can access specific files or folders. Plus, can you open and view files, photos and listen to music in the cloud storage provider’s own app, or do you have to download them to your device first? It isn’t so easy if the files are stored in Google Drive or somewhere else. And that means it’s easy to save files to OneDrive, and work on files already stored there. If you use Microsoft Office, for example, Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage is baked in. That’s convenient for storing and sharing your photos, videos, Word documents, MP3s and more, but it’s how you can interact with those files that’s important. That’s because it isn’t simply down to the amount of storage offered for a certain price.Īt a basic level, cloud is simply a hard drive on the internet. Clealy, Google wants more (paying) users on its platform by offering an attractive price while fighting off competitors in a market it doesn’t yet dominate.Of course, the ‘best’ may be different for different people. It looks like Google is willing to sell its storage at or below cost in order to put pressure on its competition. That’s where most cloud storage startups host their files. Google’s new prices even significantly undercut those of its own cloud storage platform for developers, as well as those of Amazon’s S3 and Microsoft’s Azure platforms. For instance, Dropbox charges$9.99/month for 100GB, SugarSync has a $55/month plan for one terabyte of data that is shared by up to three users and Microsoft’s OneDrive, which only features annual plans, starts at 50GB for $25 per year, which is even more expensive than Google’s new $1.99/month for its 100GB plan. The price has drastically dropped in comparison to Google’s competitors in the Cloud industry. Imagine how much you’d spend for a 1TB hard drive? Anyway, that is what Google is charging for its Cloud Storage service, Google Drive. That’s surely less than what the average Zambian spends for their weekend entertainment.

A rough estimate puts it just under K60 though.

It’s hard to tell what the equivalent of US$9.99 is with our ever dwindling Kwacha currency.

1 tb google drive cost