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stumped · 10-13-2018, 06:51 AM

Dropbox has a generous refer a friend and sometimes other bonuses so you can get up to 15gb free, eventually.
Amazon drive gives you 10gb if you are a prime member.
If you put everything into one obscure cloud solution with over generous free limits, they could go bust at any time.
Another option is to split your library across the ones
least likely to go out of business, though any one of them can change tos at any time. Amazon dropped their unimited deal, Microsoft drastically cut back their free one drive tier....
Mega could shut down at any time... And it has had lots of problems already. Many reports of users being unable to access it due to outages, also the ability to download your own files is volume limited, unless you pay. My son had a 20gb video file at mega, a movie he had made in hi Def. luckily we had zipped it into small chunks- before uploading it . But it took over a week to retreive all the chunks for free
because of mega download limits and then it was corrupt when reassembled. We don't know if their encryption corrupted it or if it was our fault but it was a huge waste of effort putting it there then not getting it back ok.

10-13-2018, 06:51 AM	#51
stumped Wizard Posts: 3,305 Karma: 10259306 Join Date: May 2016 Device: kobo forma, Kobo Libra, Huawei media Tab, fire HD10, PW3 HDX8.9,	Dropbox has a generous refer a friend and sometimes other bonuses so you can get up to 15gb free, eventually. Amazon drive gives you 10gb if you are a prime member. If you put everything into one obscure cloud solution with over generous free limits, they could go bust at any time. Another option is to split your library across the ones least likely to go out of business, though any one of them can change tos at any time. Amazon dropped their unimited deal, Microsoft drastically cut back their free one drive tier.... Mega could shut down at any time... And it has had lots of problems already. Many reports of users being unable to access it due to outages, also the ability to download your own files is volume limited, unless you pay. My son had a 20gb video file at mega, a movie he had made in hi Def. luckily we had zipped it into small chunks- before uploading it . But it took over a week to retreive all the chunks for free because of mega download limits and then it was corrupt when reassembled. We don't know if their encryption corrupted it or if it was our fault but it was a huge waste of effort putting it there then not getting it back ok. Last edited by stumped; 10-13-2018 at 06:58 AM.