I Stored My Entire Digital Life Across 5 Cloud Storage Services for a Year — Here's My Honest Ranking
It started with a hard drive failure. Last February, my external drive — the one with seven years of photos, documents, freelance work, and tax records — made a clicking noise and died. I had backups of maybe 40% of it across various cloud services. The rest was gone. After spending $800 on a data recovery service that managed to save about half of what I lost, I decided to get serious about cloud storage. Really serious. I signed up for paid plans on five different cloud storage services and spent the next twelve months using all of them for different parts of my digital life. This is what I learned. The Five Services I Tested I paid for these out of my own pocket. Nobody sponsored this, nobody gave me a free account, and I have no affiliate relationships with any of them. Here's what I signed up for: Google One (2TB) — $9.99/month iCloud+ (2TB) — $9.99/month Dropbox Plus (2TB) — $11.99/month OneDrive (1TB with Microsoft 365) — $6.99/month pCloud (2TB Lifetime) — $399 one-tim...