(Opens in a new window) Read Our IDrive Reviewįor the most storage bang for your buck, IDrive offers 2TB for just $69.50 per year, and even its free account gets you 5GB. A paid Box Personal Pro plan, which costs $10 per month, lets you upload files up to 5GB and gives you a total of 100GB of space. That limit may be a deal-killer for designers, video editors, or musicians working with huge files, but it should be plenty for users who are just storing documents and JPGs, rather than large files from multimedia content-creation programs. Box imposes a 250MB limit on the size of files you can upload with a free account, however. At 10GB, a free Box personal account comes with five times as much space as a free Dropbox account, which offers 2GB. Pricing and Plansīox offers free accounts, paid personal accounts, and business-grade accounts. It trails platform players like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive when it comes to value and built-in integration with services consumers are likely to be using.

Here we focus on the personal version of Box, which offers a relatively generous amount of free storage and connects to many different apps and web services. It's a reliable and full-featured product suited primarily for businesses, but it can also serve home users well.

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authenticationīox is a well-established file syncing and storage service along the lines of Dropbox.

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