Get more free storage from Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, Ubuntu One

Today, online storage services have become an integral part of modern life, because of the benefits they bring, such as the need to not carry USB, removable hard drives, DVDs, data sharing. anytime, anywhere, synchronize data from device to cloud service easily and quickly, find lost phone .

Online hosting providers often limit the capacity for free users. However, you can use the methods in this article to get more free storage for your account. With these methods, you will be able to store data on the Internet without having to worry about expiration, ie being stored forever on the service, until you decide to change another service or service. currently deactivated.

1. Dropbox

Currently the ways to increase Dropbox capacity are not possible. If you want to increase the capacity, users can upgrade user account packages.

We can choose different account purchase fees.

When registering a free account at Dropbox , users are provided with 2GB of online storage. But you can get an additional 20GB of free storage in the following four ways:

* Invite friends (Refer Friend): Tell your friends and invite them to use Dropbox service, with each account created from the referral link provided by you, you will receive 500MB. In this way, Dropbox will provide up to 16GB of free storage.

* Activate Camera Upload: When activating Camera Upload feature on smartphone or computer to automatically upload photos to Dropbox, you will receive an additional 3GB of free storage.

* Linking to social networks: You can get an additional 125MB for each link from Dropbox to your Facebook and Twitter social network accounts. Also, following Dropbox on Twitter and providing feedback will also receive 125MB.

* See the introduction of the service: If you have not seen the introduction and instructions about Dropbox after creating an account, please click on the Get start with Dropbox link to see through seven content related services to receive 250MB more space.

2. Skydrive

Microsoft Skydrive does not provide a referral program (Refer Friend) or other programs so users can add more space to their account. However, with free account at Skydrive, you are provided with 7GB of storage, more than Google Drive and Dropbox.

For those who have registered a Microsoft account before April 22, 2012, they can upgrade Skydrive account from 7GB to 25GB. If you don't remember when your Microsoft account was registered, go to Skydrive and check if you have 25GB.

3. Google Drive

Google Drive does not have a program to help free users increase account capacity. Should be out of the original 5GB, if you want to increase it, you have to pay for data storage. However, some files do not count towards the capacity limit.

- Using Google Docs: Files stored with the Google Docs format (including documents, spreadsheets, presentations) are not included in the limited amount of free accounts. If there are multiple documents in other formats, such as Microsoft Office or OpenDocument, then convert them to Google Docs format, which will free up some storage space.

- Image management: 5GB capacity is shared between two services Google Drive and Google+ Photos (formerly Picasa Web Albums). Once you've reached the storage limit, delete some unused images. However, with small images and videos, stored on Google products such as Blogger, Google +, Google Maps, will not count towards storage limits.

- Buy a Chromebook: When you buy a computer with Google's Chrome OS operating system, you will be given a Google Drive. Specifically, you will receive 100GB of storage at Google Drive for two years when you buy the Series 3 Chromebook for $ 249 (equivalent to 5.2 million), or get 1TB of storage for three years when you buy Chromebook Pixel costs 1300 USD (equivalent to 27.1 million VND).

4. Ubuntu One

Ubuntu One offers 5GB of free accounts, just like Dropbox, Ubuntu One also supports a program to introduce friends. With Refer Friend program, you can get 500MB for each friend you refer, maybe up to 20GB of extra storage.

At that time, you will receive 25GB of free storage. To introduce services to your friends, log in to the Ubuntu One website and receive a referral link.