Thursday Poll: Your Cloud Storage Service of Choice is?

by: Kellex | posted 02.23.12 | Polls

The cloud storage space is on the verge of becoming a cluttered one. With each of the major players doing their best to grab your attention by tossing out free space, you may have trouble deciding. Or do you even have to? Box, Dropbox and Minus are the three that most Android enthusiasts use as they have the best apps and also hand out the most storage space. Is there one in particular that you use more often than the next? If so, why?

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fvqu

I don’t use any, but if I did, I would probably try Dropbox.
Daniel Simpson

I use SkyDrive for important stuff, Google for music
Hi

Dropbox.Simple enough to use started at 2GB and I am now up to 8GB by using their beta apks in their forums.
FortitudineVincimus

I sign up for al Cloud storage that is free, but hands down, my daily driver is DB.
http://quiklives.tumblr.com quiklives

Google Docs.
http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor

It seems Minus has cloned Pinterest?
http://minus.com/explore I'm not a pinterest user and I hadn’t heard of minus until this post, so I’m not sure.
riteshk

Mine is Dropbox, mainly due to the OS integration they provide. Anything you put in the PC folder is auto synced in real time, anything you put on your Android Dropbox is available in the PC Dropbox folder almost instantaneously. But we don’t realize how big a part, in the cloud services that we use daily, Google plays. Google Music, Contacts (GMail), Docs etc. Also, one of the most underrated and underused services is SkyDrive. Amazon has a good offering too but I personally do not have any use for it, yet.
Dropbox over Box

Dropbox by far, love it. I don’t care for Box even if they try and “buy” there way to more people by giving 50GB for free, I don’t even know how they can afford it thats a lot of space and bandwidth for free even if they have a file size limit.
Chadwick17

Dropbox since syncing with your computer is free. Need to have access offline if I need it. Plus I don’t want to have to remember to upload every time I update a file
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000013988841 Matthew Dickinson

Between Dropbox and Box, its because of the Windows client for Dropbox. If Box would put out something like that, I would probably switch.
- Smooth918
  
  Box does have a windows client, just go to the website
- riteshk
  
  True.
Greg

I am new to this whole cloud storage stuff but I have recently decided to begin backing up everything in the cloud. When looking at which app to get the choice was easy:

Box = 50gb FREE

Dropbox = 50gb / $120 a year
- Derp
  
  with dropbox you get free pc and mac syncing instantly. box tries to charge you for the same functionality. i can do work on my desktop and pick up my laptop and have all my code there in real time
- Gr8Ray
  
  As long as you don’t have any files over 25mb in size. Otherwise, you get what you paid for.
  - http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor
    
    100mb
Smooth918

Box.com has been working very well for me, than there is my personal FTP which is basically limitless…
M1ghtysauc3

I prefer to use sorcery. Incantations, potions, Latin stuff.
http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor

Pogoplug for now.
Antinorm

Dropbox, because their PC software is free and very simple to use. You can pretty much just set it up and forget about it, since it automatically synchronizes. No browser needed, either, which is a huge plus for convenience.
http://www.facebook.com/TxAggieMichael Michael Johnson

gDrive!
brando56894

My choice is my personal FTP server with over 4TiB worth of storage via ES File Explorer

Besides that I think I’m going to start using Box since I just got 50GB for free.
burntcookie90

My entire life pretty much runs off of dropbox. After the new promo, at 17gb. That’s enough for me
kylosma

Where’s the option for all? I just switch between all three of them to completely satisfy my cloud needs. But Minus is my favourite, when it’s not failing at uploading and downloading files. But right now I’m mainly using Box for quick upload and downloads and Dropbox for backups and saving important files for later.
Seanwest

Sugar Sync
http://twitter.com/michaelaburnham Michael Burnham

I made my own cloud computer so I don’t have to deal with limits
- Kgbrown247
  
  How??
  - http://twitter.com/michaelaburnham Michael Burnham
    
    for simple way http://www.tonido.com
    - Kgbrown247
      
      Lol. I was just checking it out! Thanks!
    - http://androidforums.com/members/kwest12.html kwest12
      
      Is Tonido basically an FTP server that handles all the setup itself? Any advantages over setting up an FTP server via Filezilla?
  - http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor
    
    Pogoplug, Tonido, etc
itsgonnalast

GOOGLE
http://www.twitter.com/colinscatt Colin S.

Mine was dropbox until the Box update. 50GB is unbeatable.
- Greg
  
  Same here. maybe dropbox will up there limits to atract customers back.
http://www.youtube.com/kimirPORTALS kimir

I have all of them in Asus Web storage. Heheh. Cloudception
Firelight

Dropbox due to the photo caching, great interface and easy public linking when needed. But when GDrive arrives that’s probably going to be my storage of choice.
mustbepbs

I used to just use Dropbox. But since the 50GB promo for Box? You bet I’m a Box user now. 50GB for free for life is nothing to scoff at.
Christopher Bement

I have minus because of a shitload of GB for free. Don’t really use it because it’s clunky as hell. Waiting for Google storage before I start that, and I’ll pay for it too.
Jeff Badger

I have accounts with most of the major players including others MS Skydrive (my old hotmail account gave me 25 GB free). I combine all of them with SMEStorage (http://smestorage.com/?p=static&page=personal), which acts as an aggregate service. For those with multiple Box accounts, I highly recommend them as I have one service for my 3 Box accounts (all 50 GB) along with my Dropbox and SkyDrive accounts. It’s the easiest $60 I’ve ever spent and comes with a desktop solution, android app, and web browser access.
T Hall

Google for everything especially for photos with Picasa
http://cad.cx Colin Dean

I use Dropbox for almost everything, but any data I need to backup as securely as trusting someone else with my data can be, I use Spideroak.

https://spideroak.com/download/referral/6f2ea706a1da37660dd3c8a453bdee64
http://twitter.com/vargus21 Dave Bauer

Dropbox has always been my main way of file sharing between devices. Just signed up for Box because of the 50GB promo. Really like the desktop app for Dropbox though. Much more convenient to view/move/delete files than through the browser. Might not be able to give that up for another service.
hldc1

Apparently I’m the only one using Minus.
- Raven
  
  I had not heard of it before this. Will have to give it a look.
https://twitter.com/#!/acpleus Andrew Pleus

Been using Dropbox for a while now, and I love the instant camera upload feature. But in general I use it as a way to share files between my phone, home pc, and work pc.

Now, I just downloaded Box for the free 50GB, which I will likely use for backing up my documents and digital photos at home. And that is mainly because they only seem to offer the WinPC syncing feature to Enterprise users, where Dropbox offers that to everyone.
Omar Ibrahim

i use my sftp server
NotRickSantorum

Google for Music, SugarSync for everything else. I dont have tons of things I need to share between my 4 devices so the 5 GB limit is plenty.
Tony

uh sugarsync? folder syncing?? completely hands free downloading of music to phone and automated syncing to google music???
- Areayetee
  
  I do that with dropbox
red014

/sdcard
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- PuzzleShot
  
  sdcloud
r0lct

I use Google’s pay storage. Not sure how you get a Android Blog poll without the Google option…
- T Hall
  
  +1 I was curious why they were not listed.
http://www.facebook.com/jackpaleczny Jack J Paleczny

While I still have a dropbox account, I got a Pogoplug for Christmas and it is much better of a service than dropbox, specifically since I can use it as a NAS and it has an Android app and no limit to storage size, you plug in whichever hard drive you want!
- http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor
  
  I’m a pogoplug user also. I’m a fan the auto-upload feature in the app.
Curtis

Dropbox for sure. I will test Box thanks to the recent article, but, from the comments, I doubt I’ll like it.
DrHotmann

Dropbox is my choice for most things due to its simplicity. I also use minus for sharing large files with others that I don’t want clogging up my dropbox. I don’t use box due to its small file size restrictions.
NemaCystX

Dropbox for me because of the file size limit no longer capped. Especially after that beta test that earned me an additional 4GB of space.

Tried BOX and was excited until I found out the hard way about the 100MB file size limit, UNINSTALL
Michael_NM

Google for Music, Dropbox for syncing documents, Box for everything else.
http://androiddelight.com/ Audio

I use Dropbox when I need it but I’ve found SugarSync to be comparable. Why no love for SugarSync?
Kaizen_2012

Dropbox with the automatic camera uploads, fantastic

I take a picture with my Galaxy Nexus, and my wife can see it on her iPod

Signed up for Box, not sure what I am going to use it for
Bonzix

Been using Dropbox for a long time. Just downloaded the Box app since they are doling out 50GB of free storage now. Will give it a test drive. Have no complaints really with dropbox, works great.
ChristopherLeMeilleur

Box isn’t as easy to sync or sufficient to access via APIs. Dropbox isn’t the largest space or the most secure, but it’s simple to use and more than enough for someone who just syncs non-market apps and themes/roms.
richardsonadm

I chose Dropbox because of the simplicity and file size limit. Box is tempting use with 50gb storage, but with only 100mb file size limit is a turn off.
- Gr8Ray
  
  You mean 25mb, right?
  - http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor
    
    When you get the 50gb upgrade your file size limit is also increase to 100mb
    - Gr8Ray
      
      That’s not quite as bad, but still would probably give me problems. The first things that come to mind are my Lightroom catalogs, and some of the HD vids i’ve shot.
http://twitter.com/Narflar Narflar

I switched from Dropbox to SpiderOak a long time ago. I rather have secure data.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=10215724 Raj Bhatt

It was Dropbox, but I guess it’s Box now after that free 50 GB post you had earlier!
- richardsonadm
  
  But it will only allow you to have 100mb file size upload unless you want to pay.
  - Curtis
    
    Let’s hope that they change that sometime in the future. Best to take advantage of an offer like that and hope they make improvements later.
  - http://www.DanielTaylor.me/ Daniel Taylor
    
    ignore my comment
- NemaCystX
  
  Its almost like bait and switch, they lure you in with that sweet 50GB deal then they don’t tell you in that promo that the files are capped at 100MB.
  
  It could very well be a response to keep them out of trouble thanks to the recent file sharing controversy going on, after MegaUpload all the file sharing services are being overly cautious

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