What's the best cloud storage option for students?
We looked at four of the best known online file-hosting services so you'd know which are the best choices to make studying, learning, and organising your work easier
Ask your parents some time about how they managed their typed assignments. Ask them about floppy disks, or external hard drives. Until relatively recently, if you ran out of storage on your computer, you had to delete files, or move them onto a drive to make room for more. Luckily we now have cloud storage. This means your files and data are stored on a central server owned by another company, rather than on the drive on your computer or smartphone, making it easier to save and access your files over the internet.
We’ve compared the pros and cons of four of the most popular storage solutions.
Google Drive and Photos
For the budget-conscious, Google Drive offers 15 gigabytes of free storage for documents and files, and unlimited storage for photos through the Google Photos app.
This is by far gives you the most storage for free out of all the services on this list.
For students, programs like Google Docs should have enough tools for most of your work. Documents save automatically to your Drive, so you don’t have to worry about losing your essay the night before the deadline.
On the downside, organising your files within Google Docs can be a little bit hard to manage. Although 15GB is a lot of storage, you share this with Gmail and the rest of the Google services, so it fills up quickly.
