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Box.net increases storage quotas for both free and paid plans
Online storage and collaboration service Box.net has increased its storage allotments for all its plans, whether free or paid.
The free service now allows you to store 5 GB of files in the cloud (up from 1GB) with a per-file size limit of 25 MB. Premium upgrades include 25 GB of capacity for $9.99 or 50 GB for $19.99. Upping the file size limit to 1 GB is also possible for a fee.
For three users and up, there's the Business plan. This costs $15 per user per month and gives you a pool of 500 GB that's shared across your users. The file size limit is 2 GB.
An enterprise plan is also available, and this still has unlimited storage (the file size limit is still 2 GB) -- but you'll have to contact Box.net for a quote if you're interested.
As the limited amount of storage has been one of Box.net's weaknesses so far, it's good to see the company rectify that. Today's upgrades are already available for new users. Existing Box.net users will get the increased capacities over the next few weeks.
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Subscribe to commentsMitchRapp81Oct 28th 2010 5:03PM
I'm gonna go ahead and assume DropBox will also increase their free account from 2 to 5 or 6 just to stay on par...
DropBox does not appear to have a file size limit for free accounts (well I tried 120mb file and it's fine .... maybe the limit is 200?)
PeterM11Oct 28th 2010 6:12PM
Via referrals DropBox let's you get up to 10GB of free storage I think. Used to be up to only 3. Only problem is it's a pain to get people to use the referrals.
richard.gaileyOct 28th 2010 5:58PM
@MitchRapp81 Ditto. Exactly what I was thinking. I would be very surprised if Dropbox don't increase the amount of space for free users.
I have added files just over 700MB so not sure about the actual limit per file? Depends what file system they are using really? FAT32 vs NTFS etc
daniel.olearyOct 28th 2010 6:10PM
Not a frequent commenter, but I use Box.net and love it. Defiantly worth checking out, their ipad app is awesome.
AnthonyOct 28th 2010 7:04PM
I'd still rather use Windows Live SkyDrive's 25 free gigabytes of storage than pay $15 per month for 15 gigabytes.
calintel2Oct 28th 2010 7:13PM
Went to the Box.net site.
Not "Free" (as you say in your post), but...(time-limited) "Free Trial".
I'll stick to the wonderful "DropBox"!
SFdude
master811Oct 29th 2010 3:45PM
I guess you didn't see the extremely obvious (with flashing lights and everything) personal FREE 5GB version then.
mikeymike76Oct 31st 2010 9:15PM
or you could use adrive.com
free 50gb storage......