There are very good alternatives for less

I admit it: I was wrong to buy my phone with “only” 256 GB of storage. I’m a big fan of taking photos and videos, so I’ve taken advantage of these past few days by emptying my phone in order to have room on it for my Easter getaway. The problem? There’s not much more to delete and I barely have space. I have no choice but to move to a cloud.

Mostly, I use the free 15 GB of Google Drive. However, it is not an option to free up space on my phone, since for the most part I have this space occupied with emails and other types of files. So, I’ve been looking for some options that are quite interesting for what they offer (and for what they cost). I’ll tell you more about them.

Proton Drive

We have a good solution with Proton Drive, one of the best European alternatives to Google Drive that we currently have available. Beyond the capacity it offers, Proton Drive is a service that offers end to end encryption (so not even the company itself will be able to access our files) and a lot of control over what we upload and the links we generate if we want to share photos, videos or files with friends. Additionally, it includes Proton Docs and Proton Sheets.

It has a free mode with 5 GB of storage. This may not give us much room to try it because it is not much capacity, but right now there is a promo active that gives us 200 GB for alone 1 euro per month (later it costs 4.99 euros per month). You can also opt for their annual plan, in which case each month costs 2.99 euros.

pCloud

pCloud can also suit us very well. This service also has a very good level of security and encryption, as well as the ability to recover data from up to 30 days agosomething that can save you from losing something forever due to a specific error. It also has its own player for multimedia files, which is quite useful.

This service, unlike what happens with Proton Drive, does not have a free modality. Its monthly modality costs 4.99 euros and gives us 500 GB storagea figure that is not bad at all (although we can save a little if we buy a year, since it costs 49.99 euros).

Internxt

Another economical alternative, also European, is Internxt. This service, as with other options such as Proton, It is open source. What does that mean? That anyone can audit it, so it is impossible to hide a back door that allows a third party to access our data.

The “bad” thing about Internxt is that it does not allow us to get a month of its service, since its modality is annual. Now, it is quite economical, since it costs 24 euros per year (which is 2 euros per month) and it gives us 1 TB of storage.

Google Drive

It may happen that you are comfortable with Google Drive and do not want an additional service. So, the easiest thing in that case is to expand your storage capacity with Google One. If you only need an extra capacity and you don’t want to spend too muchit is one of the best options you can choose.

As I said above, Google Drive gives you only 15 GB of free storage. The basic mode gives you 100 GB storage for a price of 0.49 euros for three months. (later, 1.99 euros per month). For more capacity, it may not be so recommended, since the price becomes 7.99 euros per month (although it includes more things, of course).

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