Five Big cloud storage services seven competition

Cloud storage and music services have recently become a hot topic, while Apple's icloud has enabled cloud storage services to compete in a comprehensive competitive state. The wide range of cloud storage services is dazzling, and today we are going to Apple icloud, Google, Amazon Cloud Drive, Dropbox, and Windows Live from the seven major areas of space, ease-of-use, support devices, music services, offline support, availability, and so on. SkyDrive the five major cloud storage services are described in detail.

Space size

Google first to take the top

Google takes the first place in the five big cloud storage servers with up to 16TB of storage space and 20,000 songs stored. Google does not have a fixed space limit, but through Gmail, documents, Picasa albums and other products to constrain space, provide a free quota, once more than this digital users will pay. In addition, you can store 20,000 songs through music beta. The second-ranked

is Amazon's Cloud Drive,cloud Drive, which provides users 5GB to 1TB of space based on how much they pay.

Apple's icloud is ranked third in 5GB free space. We can use this 5GB storage space to store mail, contacts, calendars, and device backups. In addition, Apple also provides the space to store photos and videos separately, and Apple will save you the latest 1000 photos and video from iOS devices for 30 days. As for apps, books and music purchased from itunes, they can be stored in icloud, with no restrictions, and the only thing to be aware of is the music purchased from outside the Apple. icloud allows you to match 25,000 songs, excluding songs purchased from itunes. The fourth of the ranking of

is Dropbox. Dropbox is a networked storage online application that provides synchronous local files. It supports automatic synchronization in multiple computers and can be used as a large capacity network hard disk. Dropbox uses the free Trial + Advanced service charge freemium mode, the initial 2GB space free, then need to pay monthly storage costs, advanced users can get 100GB space.

Additionally, in the case of file types, Cloud drive and Dropbox support all file types that can be uploaded and do not limit the file size. While SkyDrive also supports any file type, there is a size limit for uploaded files, each file must not exceed 50MB. Google and icloud can upload any file from a technical standpoint.

icloud easy to usebr>
Dropbox files at any time

in terms of ease of use, icloud continues the minimalist philosophy of Apple, making icloud the easiest. All files of the user are placed in the same place and need not be managed at all.

By contrast, Drobox is slightly more complex and requires some manual management, but it is seamless and can be synchronized on a variety of devices simply by dragging files. And SkyDrive is slightly less than a chip in speed, but although the speed is slow, but it is easy to operate, through the site to manage their own space, not only beautiful interface, drag and drop is also very convenient.

Cloud Drive can buy more space by paying, so you can put everything in one place. Inconvenience is the need for an additional desktop client, if you want to play music, but also need to open a separate space. Amazon also has a music library of the same size as itunes, but it needs to upload all the music manually, rather than having the server automatically match the existing songs, so it takes a long time to upload a music library and takes up a lot of bandwidth. The problem with Google is that different files need to be placed in different places, and it's harder to manage.

In terms of device support, Dropbox and Google can access their documents anywhere, online. But if you want to access music beta songs, you can only do it on your computer and on your Android phone. In addition, Dropbox is doing the best in offline access. The

Cloud Drive can be used on any device that supports Flash, but offline access is not supported. icloud is more like Apple's Secret garden, but we can still sync it to Mac and even windows. SkyDrive has no mobile web sites, no apps, and no offline access, but supports uploading images on Windows Phone phones.

icloud Music library strong tens of thousands of songs you choose

In the music library, itunes supports downloading songs wirelessly to any device, and the system can automatically identify your songs and archive them for backup. Amazon's music-playback service is catching up with Apple, except that Amazon can only play it through laptops or Android phones. In addition to the manual upload problem, another problem is the quality of music. Amazon's cloud drive and cloud player can only get you to listen to your uploaded version, not Amazon's own version. If you're uploading a lower-quality 128kbps, it's better to choose itunes Match. Google's music beta is similar to Amazon Cloud, but there are no musical stores. Dropbox and SkyDrive do not support the music library. Wang

Author: Wang

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)