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Microsoft's SkyDrive
Free: You get 25GB of free space.
Requirement: A hotmail or live e-mail account.
Sharing: You can share any files through the browser, and can create a URL linking directly to the folder containing the assets.
Dropbox
Free: You get 2GB of free space (plus additional 512MB if you get others to sign up). Account holder installs a client-side app that acts as an uploader.
Paid: 50 GB for $9.99 per month or $99.00 per year.
Sharing: You can share any files through the browser, and can create a URL linking directly to the asset.
drop.io
Free: You create an account name (no password), and are given a 100 MB web-based dropbox.
Paid: The cost is $10 per gigabyte per year.
Sharing: With a free dropbox, anyone has read/write access to the dropbox simply by accessing the url. Adding a guest password is possible when first creating the dropbox
yousendit
Free: a free 'yousendit lite' account allows 100 MB of storage, up to 100 uploads.
Paid: yousendit is a very robust suite of file transfer services, with different 'packages'. The 'entry-level' Pro Account allows you to send multiple files up to 2GB in size and track delivery. It also allows multiple files up to 2GB each in a browser-based public dropbox. This package is $9.99/month or $109.99/yearly, which allows 2 GB of long-term storage, and additional storage can be purchased at $4.99 per GB. 40 GB of download bandwidth each month.
Sharing: Browser-based public dropbox. Send files via a hyperlink that initiates download on the receiving end.
senduit
Free: You can upload one file up to 100 MB, and senduit gives you a link to that file. They host for up to one week, after which time the link expires. It's similar to tinyurl, but for file transfers.
Paid: No paid service.
Sharing: No account settings. A distributed link initiates the download.
dropboks
Free: Dropboks allows you to create an account and upload up to 1 GB of data for free, no expiration. However, individual file sizes are limited to 50 MB, which is very restrictive.
Paid: 2 GB, 200 MB file size maximum for $2/month.
Sharing: No sharing, for multiple users to access uploaded assets, you'd have to issue everybody the same user/pass.
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Last updated 10/05/2010
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