My Box Review - storing pictures, videos and plenty of documents
July 7, 20125 GB of free Box storage
Based on my recollection and I could be wrong in order to have Box installed on a client PC so you can transfer files between the Apple iPhone and iPad you need the paid Business account. With a little research on Google I was able to find this article on how to map Box as a network drive via Microsoft Windows, here is the link. Now with a mapped drive on your PC, you can easily share files across the other devices. With a shortcut on the desktop labelled as "Box", I can easily access my files on the cloud.
There is no doubt with 50 GB (I got the early bird, promo) I can hold a lot of files and not worry about running out of space. There is however one drawback that I have encountered and that is support for a third party Text Editor app. I am aware of the "Open and Edit" cloud icon on the top right hand corner which allows you to select which text editor app to open but I have encountered some conflicts. I will have to do a bit more testing on this though.
Passcode Lock available?
Yes. Pass code lock when logging into Box and resuming.
Current Plans
Interested in a free personal Box account? To sign up visit http://www.box.com/ and they will start you off with 5 GB of free disk space.
If you really like Box, here is the quick breakdown on their upgraded services:
Free User Plan
- 5 GB FREE
- 25 GB - $9.99 per month
- 50 GB - $19.99 per month
- File Size Limits of 100 MB to 1 GB
- 1 user
Business User Plan
- $15/user/month and you receive 1000 GB of online storage
- File size limits at 2 GB
- Users 3 to 500
- File Size Limit of 2 GB
Enterprise Plan
- Call them for pricing at 1-877-729-4269
- Unlimited Users
- Unlimited Online Storage
- File Size Limit of 2 GB
Conclusion
All in all, Box is perfect for storing pictures, movies and documents. With so much disk space, I am not complaining! Besides the sleek and professional interface, it also has a lot of support from third party apps such as GoodReader - a highly rated file viewer for the Apple iPhone and iPad that supports PDF and text files and Quickoffce - which you can edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. I also highly recommend adding Box to your army of free cloud storage solutions.
Disclaimer
I do not receive any monetary compensation from this review site, however I do use Dropbox and SugarSync daily and I recommend it because it is FREE. If you wish to setup a new Dropbox/SugarSync account, you will find my referral link in the Dropbox/SugarSync review page(s) which would give us each an additional 500 MB of free space. All opinions expressed on this website are my own and do not reflect the cloud storage providers.
Posted by jim jang. Posted In : Cloud-Storage
