Cloud Storage Services in India - Google Drive

Google Drive: Google Drive is at the heart of the various online services that Google currently offers, and is definitely one of the best cloud storage services.

Google offers 15GB of free space when you create a Google account.The storage space is shared across all the services Gmail, google drive, photos, calendar etc.., so if you have large attachments on emails then they will count in the 15GB,

Google drive enabling the automatic photo backup to Google+ from a smartphone acts the same way.

Google providing upload any photos below 2048x2048 resolution and videos shorter than fifteen minutes, but now it has two options for uploading photos and videos. "High quality" is free and doesn't count against your storage and offers "Great visual quality at a reduced file size". Or you can opt for "Original" and have the photos and videos count against your storage. 

Storage Size not included: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Presentations, Drawings and files that others have shared with you don't count against your allocation either.

100 GB Free if: you get 100GB free for two years if you buy a Chromebook. There are similar deals with certain Android phones. 

Free Google Music – a separate service - allows you to keep 50,000 songs in the cloud for free and not count against your Drive storage.

Remember it: There's no way of adding storage through referrals.

Drive works in the same way as most cloud storage solutions, with a local folder on your PC linked to a duplicate cloud version. Versioning is supported, as is real-time collaboration on documents via the Google Docs app. Clients are available on PC and Mac, with mobile versions for Android and iOS, 

On the whole, the interface across the apps is smart and simple to navigate, with a basic file tree showing where your data is kept. You can choose specific files to be available offline on the mobile versions, and these can be edited - if they were created in Google Docs - then synced when you return online. For other formats (such as Word) you’ll need to open them in another app - thus creating a duplicate copy.

Data stored on Drive is, similarly to Apple, encrypted in 128-bit AES rather than the 256-bit employed by Box, OneDrive, and Dropbox. Google asserts that it won’t pry into the content of your Drive folder unless compelled by law enforcement agencies, and you can set up two-step verification on your account to add another layer of security.