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  • Amazon Cloud Drive

    Amazon Cloud Drive

    Amazon's Cloud Drive isn't bad, and its storage options are inexpensive, but — like so many of these services &mdash it needs real operating system integration to be first-rate.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Apple iCloud

    Apple iCloud

    Apple's iCloud tries to do everything for Apple users, but it doesn't do nearly as well at any single thing as we'd like.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Box

    Box

    Yes, Box offers cloud storage, but it's really more of a set of cloud-based business-collaboration and workflow tools than a pure cloud storage play. Of course, that may be exactly what you want.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Dropbox

    Dropbox

    Dropbox was the first popular personal cloud storage service, and thanks to its integration with most popular operating system's file managers, it's still the best.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Google Drive

    Google Drive

    Google Drive is closing ground on Dropbox — now if it just supported Linux natively. Besides storage, it also incorporates Google Docs.

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  • MediaFire

    MediaFire

    If you can handle the ads and a few restrictions, it's hard to argue with MediaFire's 50GB of free storage.

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  • Mega

    Mega

    Sure Mega comes with 50GB of free storage, but it's also slower than sludge. Of all these services, even with so much free storage, this is the one I like least.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Microsoft SkyDrive

    Microsoft SkyDrive

    It's not as universally useful as Dropbox, but if you're a Windows user, SkyDrive is the service for you. Just be a little wary of the feature that lets you upload files remotely from a PC into SkyDrive.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • SpiderOak

    SpiderOak

    If file privacy is your top concern, then SpiderOak is the service for you.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

  • Ubuntu One

    Ubuntu One

    It doesn't always work well with Windows, but Ubuntu One is a great cloud storage service for Ubuntu Linux users.

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    Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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Amazon Cloud Drive

Amazon's Cloud Drive isn't bad, and its storage options are inexpensive, but — like so many of these services &mdash it needs real operating system integration to be first-rate.

Caption by: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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