In honor of the HelloSign launch, Box is giving away 25 GB of Free Online Storage for life to anyone who checks out HelloSign today. 25 GB never expires, valid for life. New accounts only.
HelloSign is an online electronic signature service. You can upload documents, add your signature and other text to them for free. HelloSign.com
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lol yeah. I got so excited and logged into my box account thinking to cancel it but then i saw i already had 50GB. Size limit for uploads is 100MB for non-paying customers, fyi.
100mb is not bad for free? Didn't it used to be 25mb?
For comparison Dropbox has 300MB per file for free users. But this is offset by its much smaller offering of 2GB per new account (although this can easily get to 24~50GB if referring friends and taking advantage of its special offers)
Also if you have a HTC Sense 4.0 phone you immediately get 23GB extra storage for 2 years.
Also Box has severe limitations on your account, like you can't just post a direct link to a photo, it goes to one of their pages first. Of course if you pay the monthly fee then it works fine. I've got the 50GB box and its a bit meh really.
25GB extra Dropbox storage also applies if you have a Galaxy S3.
Is it 25GB or 48gb/50gb?
25GB extra Dropbox storage also applies if you have a Galaxy S3.
How to get this then? Just check up on Dropbox website?
I just logged in using the Dropbox app on my phone and was given 25GB free for two years.
huh? I've definitely uploaded hundreds of MB more in a single file before from a free account. Are you sure of this limitation, or is it new?
edit: yep I looked it up and that limit only applies to uploads through the website. If you sync through the desktop program there is no limitation https://www.dropbox.com/help/5/en
Yep, I upload a ~4GB file to Dropbox weekly through the desktop client.
@JohnHo,
This is how to get the extra 50Gb. You need a rooted Android Phone.
http://www.egyhacks.net/2012/07/free-50gb-dropbox-upgrade-wo…
Repeated a comment above. (Mod please delete)
I'll try and get a mod to change it.
Thanks guys and thanks mrpalmer for the direct(?) link.
I still don't know what hello sign is.
:P "HelloSign is an online electronic signature service. You can upload documents, add your signature and other text to them for free."
Thank you very much. Combined with the more useful Skydrive - Free Upgrade to 25GB @433+ OB votes; I will have 50GB online storage, along with those several GB's bundled in with my gmail/email.
Does Box have a Windows program like Dropbox? Would like to add my photos while overseas so I dont have to buy a larger memory card.
Dropbox is perfect to backup photos via drag and drop and it seems Box is online a online interface?
desktop sync is available for box but you'll need to have either a business or enterprise account to do so, which isn't free.
Thanks for posting OP! It worked for me.
I signed up and got the 25GB space as stated in the post.
I downloaded the BOX app for my Blackberry Playbook, signed in, and to my surprise was then upgraded to a 50GB account!!
update:
I just realised I didn't even have to follow the link in this deal.
Box for Playbook gives you 50GB free anyways
http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/11976/
This info probably won't be useful for most of you out there.. but hopefully a few
Works as stated. Easy. Also has a free Mac sync app which seems to work.
Good value for free. Thumbs up.
Thanks.
Will go great with my 25gb skydrive. I've lost everything on a faulty HDD before, so backing up online for free = win.
Got my 25GB and I've been trialling Box for a week now. The results aren't good.
I tried syncing 24GB of photos; over 12,000 in total.
On the first attempt, it only synced 5GB of photos to Box. In the process the Box client stated that downloaded 33 files to my PC. This was despite the fact that my online Box folder was empty. Huh?
And of greatest concern, Box deleted 432 files from my PC. (Fortunately I was syncing from a copy of the photos.)
The client also seems to grind itself to a halt a lot. Particularly on the "Searching your computer for updated files" phase. Rebooting the PC fixes this.
Sure, this is only one person's experience, but I thought it worthy of noting the "randomly deleting files" issue for others.
They had 50GB last year for new accounts, and while this sounds good, its not as usable as Drop Box, as Box has file size limitations which i forget the size limit. Its very good if you want to store a large number small files.
Drop Box has the edge in useability as you also have the desktop app for PCs and Macs free.