File Sharing: Google Drive and Dropbox

How do you share files with your friends and colleagues? Still burn a disc or copy to a USB drive? You are too much out of date. Send email and upload file as attachment? You are wasting time. Nowadays, there is a bevy of free services that offer tons of storage, and you can easily share files with one click. Moreover, beyond sharing, the server application also offers editing, retrieving, tracing and compliant functions; for example, Documents can directly show files in Google Drive and Dropbox.

Here briefly comparing 2 popular file sharing options:

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Google Drive: The free account storage for student is 30GB. You can create folder and place files into. The files are automatically synced to the cloud and to other devices running under the account. Document, spreadsheet, presentation can also be created under Drive folder, not only be uploaded. However, file sharing can only be set up through Drive's Web interface, which means you can do nothing out of line.

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Dropbox: It is among the first services to offer seamless upload and storage via its client software. All you need to do to sync files is put them in Dropbox's designated folder on a system with the client app, and the sync happens silently in the background. Sharing links and other admin functions can be done directly from the right-click menu, and you can share files through email or Facebook. However, the free storage is really limited; it is starting at 2GB and up to 16 GB by 500MB per reference.

Reference:

10 file-sharing options: Serdar Yegulalp, "Dropbox, Google Drive and more"