Google Drive is not for everyone, so try these alternatives

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Google Drive

Google Drive To review: Google Drive offers 5GB of free storage, almost the best prices beyond the free tier in a consumer product (Microsoft is better), and the biggest available online lockers. It's integrated into Google Docs so you can put your files from local apps alongside your Web files, which is pretty handy.

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Microsoft SkyDrive Microsoft's cloud storage initiative (I hesitate to call it a single product) is the closest competitor to Google Drive. It combines access to SkyDrive, which is storage for the cloud versions of the Microsoft Office products, with Live Mesh, its hard disk in the sky. It also has the rare, but valuable to some, capability to sync files computer-to-computer, bypassing cloud storage.

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Dropbox

Dropbox Dropbox is the darling of the tech set for file synchronization and sharing, and for very good reasons: Setup is fast; The free service gives you a usable if limited 2GB of storage; and sharing files with other people is beautifully simple for both the sender and the receiver. If you're a Dropbox user and accustomed to the system, there's no need to move off of it. If you need a fast way to share a file with another user, or you want to park a file in the cloud to access it from anywhere or from other computers you own, it's still a fantastic experience -- better than Google Drive.

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Box

Box Box is the file-sharing service designed for businesses. You can get a plan as an individual user, but this company makes its money from, and does it best work for, the business team. Desktop sync isn't even available on individual accounts.

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Microsoft SkyDrive Microsoft's cloud storage initiative (I hesitate to call it a single product) is the closest competitor to Google Drive. It combines access to SkyDrive, which is storage for the cloud versions of the Microsoft Office products, with Live Mesh, its hard disk in the sky. It also has the rare, but valuable to some, capability to sync files computer-to-computer, bypassing cloud storage.

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Cubby

Cubby A new entry from LogMeIn, Cubby has taken the best ideas from existing sync and share products. It's simple like Dropbox, allows you to sync any folder like SugarSync, and it offers a computer-to-computer sync feature that lets you share folders between two computers without storing them in the cloud; this helps keep the price down if you're using the system to keep a lot of data synced between computers.

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Cx

CX This is another flexible sync product. Like SugarSync and Cubby, it lets you share any folder on your computer. The CX team is focused on collaboration, and the product lets you create groups of users for sharing files. It gives groups collaboration tools, too, like discussion threads.

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Microsoft SkyDrive Microsoft's cloud storage initiative (I hesitate to call it a single product) is the closest competitor to Google Drive. It combines access to SkyDrive, which is storage for the cloud versions of the Microsoft Office products, with Live Mesh, its hard disk in the sky. It also has the rare, but valuable to some, capability to sync files computer-to-computer, bypassing cloud storage.

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Wuala

Wuala Wuala was once an independent cloud storage provider, but it was acquired by the hard drive vendor LaCie, and the product is included with some of the company's drives now. Wuala has a unique proposition, though: Its data is all hosted in Germany, Switzerland, and France, where privacy regulations are stricter; it would be, theoretically, harder for a government to get into your files on this service. There are no Wuala servers in the U.S.

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BitCasa

Bitcasa Bitcasa is the crazy one. The idea here is that you pay $10 a month for unlimited cloud-based storage that is synchronized to you computers' hard drives. In the Bitcasa vision, there is no real difference between the cloud and your hard disk. Your hard disk looks infinite because it's, technically speaking, just a really big cache for your unlimited cloud drive.

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Microsoft SkyDrive Microsoft's cloud storage initiative (I hesitate to call it a single product) is the closest competitor to Google Drive. It combines access to SkyDrive, which is storage for the cloud versions of the Microsoft Office products, with Live Mesh, its hard disk in the sky. It also has the rare, but valuable to some, capability to sync files computer-to-computer, bypassing cloud storage.

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Apple iCloud

Apple iCloud And then there's Apple's solution. Apple uses cloud storage strictly for its own apps: You can store your files from Keynote, Numbers, and Pages in the Apple cloud, as well as backups of your iOS devices. It's seamless to open these files from any machine running the apps. But it's not a general-purpose cloud file storage product.

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