Google Drive VS Microsoft One Drive VS Dropbox - Comparison between Top 3 Online Cloud Storage Services

Google Drive VS Microsoft One Drive VS Dropbox

In short: Google provides the best services and user experience.

The top 3 most popular online cloud storage services are:
  1. Google Drive
  2. Microsoft One Drive
  3. Dropbox
Since file storage is deeply connected with notes and documents, each of these services provided also comes with notes and documents editing and storage.
  • Google Drive with Google Docs and Google Keep
  • Microsoft One Drive with Microsoft One Note, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office
  • Dropbox with Paper

Comparison between benefits and disadvantages of Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive and Dropbox

This is a simple comparison (not in-depth) between the top 3 online cloud storage service providers, aim to give you a rough starting guidline in choosing between them.

Google 

Google Drive

  • 15 GB storage

  • more risky when uploading files (copyright)

Google Docs

  • cannot be locked

  • no folder

Google Keep

  • standalone

  • simple note taking

  • with share-edit


Microsoft

Microsoft One Drive

  • 5GB storage

  • not linked with one notes

  • good for sharing files, not notes

  • using yahoo mail

  • uploading big files is very slow

Microsoft One Notes

  • can be locked

  • not really link with One Drive, cannot be created in One Drive

  • with folders

  • need to go browser to sync shared notes

Microsoft Word

  • need monthly subscription in order to edit any document.

Microsoft Office

  • need monthly subscription in order to edit any document.

Dropbox

Dropbox

  • 2GB storage

  • video playing is slow

  • streaming video cannot full screen

  • two types of notes: Paper & plain text file

Paper

  • no folder (like Google Docs)


Discussion

The list of comparison is not so comprehensive, but to give you a rough simple guideline on choosing these online cloud storage services.

Feel free to leave a comment if you have any opinion regarding these 3 Google, Microsoft and Dropbox cloud storage services.


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