Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Co .: Cloud services are many, we have the most important representatives in the comparison test. What are the different cloud services, how does it look with security and who scores with extras? We’ll tell you.
Amazon Cloud Drive
Cloud storage services do not back up text, photos, videos, or other data to a local drive, but "in the cloud," the Internet. So you can access it from any computer with internet access, smartphone or tablet.
Dropbox
A big hit is the security: in times of NSA spies, many have a queasy feeling of trusting their photos and documents to US services such as Dropbox or Google's drive. But there are European competitors who want to score with privacy and privacy.
Google Drive
Amazon's five gigabytes of memory are automatically available to all customers of the on-line shop. The functionality is less than most competitors.
Mega
MP3s purchased at Amazon are automatically stored in the cloud memory. The storage space for this is not subtracted from the five gigabytes. The data is stored on the company's servers in the United States.
The most popular cloud storage is Dropbox, although the US service has only two GB of burr storage. Users can share data with friends or send a download link, synchronize only certain folders on the computer, or automatically back up photos and screenshots from the smartphone.
For Dropbox, there are also countless apps from other vendors that help you sync and manage. Dropbox can also do something that everyone else does not know: when you upload a slightly modified file again, Dropbox detects this and synchronizes only the changes.
With Drive, the giant Google operates a Dropbox competitor. Anyone who owns a Google account, such as Gmail or Google+, automatically gets a drive access. The service now offers 15 GB of memory.
Drive can also be used via a virtual hard disk as in the browser. The service is simple, but the optics improved. The great advantage of Drive: The service is closely linked to other Google services, such as word processing and spreadsheets.
Mega is the cloud store of the dazzling internet star Kim Dotcom aka Kim Schmitz. He was known for his sharehoster Megaupload, which the authorities shut down for alleged copyright infringement in 2012.
Mega works similarly to the competitors, but has a few extras: The Gratiss storage is 50 gigabytes. Mega attaches great importance to safety. There is an end-to-end encryption, so the data is already encrypted on the user's computer. Mega does not yet have a desktop client, but some apps.
Users of Microsoft's Cloud Storage have seven gigabytes of storage space and can access the data via a browser or virtual disk. OneDrive has been anchored in the operating system since Windows 8. Microsoft also integrates its Office services into OneDrive.
All data stored in HiDrive Free is stored in data centers in the United States. HiDrive is not very appealing, but it offers functions that hardly any other storage service, like the very handy backup: anyone who accidentally deleted or overwritten data from HiDrive can restore it.
Microsoft OneDrive
Telekom's media center can also use non-customers. The Telekom offers 25 gigabytes of storage space, the functionality is modest, the optics minimalist. The media center is a real plus: it can also be used on the TV set via the Telekom TV range "Entertain".
Wuala attaches great importance to security and works like Mega with end-to-end encryption. The data is thus already encrypted on the computer of the user. If you forget your password, you will not be able to access the data.
Wuala can be used via a comfortable desktop tool and apps, but not over the normal browser. Access is a bit cumbersome via a Java applet. Wuala is very easy to use and visually appealing.
Strato HiDrive Free
Telecom Media Center
Wuala
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