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johnrogerohanlon
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Q: Is the payment for icloud storage annual or a oneoff payment?

I see MS is jumping in on the cloud storage bandwagon with a 7gb offering. Can anybody tell me if the storage payment on the icloud is an annual paymant or a one off payment for life? I currently have 115gb with google but in todays harsh economic climate sourcing better/cheaper storage is becoming the order of the day.

iPhone 5, iOS 7

Posted on Feb 20, 2014 1:31 AM

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Q: Is the payment for icloud storage annual or a oneoff payment?

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  • by fromsouth,

    fromsouth fromsouth Feb 20, 2014 7:13 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon
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    Feb 20, 2014 7:13 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon

    Annual. Good luck with comparing storage only on price basis.

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Feb 20, 2014 7:15 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon
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    Feb 20, 2014 7:15 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon

    iCloud includes a free 5GB.  Anything beyond that is provided via an annual subscription service.

  • by johnrogerohanlon,

    johnrogerohanlon johnrogerohanlon Feb 20, 2014 8:48 AM in response to fromsouth
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    Feb 20, 2014 8:48 AM in response to fromsouth

    Hi fromsouth, I was asking for the cost of icloud storage which you have answered - thank you! I was asking, however as you can see forstorage which was not only better but cost effective. I notice that this blog has a few people who are experiencing problems with iCloud and I was wanting to know which cloud service out of the big five are the best?? iCloud, Windows, Google, Dropbox or 4Shared? what is your opinion and why?

  • by Michael Black,Helpful

    Michael Black Michael Black Feb 20, 2014 9:06 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon
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    Feb 20, 2014 9:06 AM in response to johnrogerohanlon

    I mainly use dropbox and box (and box mostly).  I don't know if the deal is still on, but if you set up a box account and then install and login from the iOS app, they give you 50GB free for life.  At least they were doing that - not sure if they still do or not.

     

    Both work well with the apps I use them with.  I also have a 4shared and SugarSync account, but do not use them for much (4Shared for some work stuff).

     

    Its really one of those things you should try out for yourself to see what you like - much of the differences between them all (at least for free accounts) turns out to be pretty minor in day to day use.  The main thing is are they supported in the iOS apps you routinely use?  I dislike Google Drive since I do not use Google's native tools and do not work with Google native files and so it offers me nothing extra than any other online storage and I have to make sure that the auto-conversion features are disabled.

     

    As more of the apps I use also include the option of ftp/sftp to any server address you have accounts on, I am using my hosting services storage more and more since I pay for it anyway as part of my hosting fees, and I think I get 250GB-300GB with them.