Google Drive's free service offers 15 GB of online storage, or a couple more if you've participated in certain promotions. On the OneDrive side, free accounts get 5 gigabytes, or 25 if you're a legacy user. And Dropbox still hands out a measly 2 GB. If you feel you need (much) more online space, you might want to take a close look at TeraBox, which enables free cloud storage up to 1 terabyte… emphasis on “up to”
The folks at Backblaze reveal in one of its articles that the cost per gigabyte of hard drive storage fell from $0.03 in 2017 to $0.015 in November 2022. Of course, every online backup service has additional costs for energy, maintenance, taxes, and so on… but something tells me that free accounts could afford much more space.
If you agree with that, then I have news for you: TeraBox offers users up to a terabyte of free cloud storage… provided certain requirements are met. The first step is to create an account (or alternatively, use Google credentials), and start uploading files.
TeraBox: There are terabytes... and “terabytes”
“Okay brainiac, but what does the fine print say?” you must be thinking before signing up. Actually, opening an account at TeraBox gives you initial access to 10 gigabytes of storage. While not a terrible number (it's above Dropbox and OneDrive), the way to get additional space on the desktop is through referrals, and each new user who signs up using your link will become a reward of 200 extra GB. Another option is to download the mobile app and complete the 'tasks' TeraBox asks for, like uploading more files and photos. Basically, the mobile app 'gamifies' storage expansion.
So, the free terabyte of cloud storage comes with conditions, but that's not all. The free version also limits you to a maximum of 500 files (saving in zips will help a lot) and 4 gigabytes per file, there are no automatic backups, the trash empties itself after ten days, and if you try to play videos from the service, the maximum resolution is 720p.
However, we saved the best for last: TeraBox works as a 'torrent box'. It's not necessarily a 'seedbox', but if you upload the .torrent file, TeraBox will do the rest. It goes without saying, there is content TeraBox prefers not to see on its servers, so don't get into trouble if you decide to use this.
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