Free accounts available at Filedropper once again
By Jonathan Schlaffer
As suspected, Filedropper did indeed pull the offer of free 250Gb accounts due to extreme demand but they are not gone forever. The free accounts will be returning tomorrow.
That’s all well and good so I should retract some of my previous statements but some of them still stand. The accounts offer only 32GB of free storage; notice the Gb which is “gigabit” and not “gigabyte.” And file uploads are limited to 5GB but for free, it’s not bad.
Other services offer more free storage such as Adrive which gets you 50GB of free storage but limitis file size to 2GB and a service called MyBloob which claims to offer free “unlimited” storage.
In the near future, we will be evaluting these and other free storage services to tell you the pros and cons of each and which is the best. In the meantime, I would say that Adrive is one of the best but I have not done a full evaluation on it.
Filedropper should be clearer on what the free account is, instead of saying “Gb” it should be spelled out that it is actually 32GB but it’s free. I’m also a little confused as to why it says the account will expire in 2038 if it supposed to be a “lifetime” account. Maybe Filedropper defines 30 years as a lifetime?
[UPDATE:] A reader points out that the differentiation between Gb and GB doesn’t mean much in this case because the rest of the world uses Gb and GB interchangeably. Well, fine but to someone who comes from a computer science background as do I, it’s not necessary to test what it is, these are very specific terms. Gb is gigabit, NOT gigabyte and is a very very different storage term. I realize the rest of the world may not care and the average user may not care but when you’re dealing with someone who does, using the wrong term has major consequences, as you can see. Learn to use the correct term; there’s no reason not to.
250Gb is 32GB. So, Filedropper, change it to a “B” or spell out Gigabyte.
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April 28th, 2008
No, it actually IS 250GB. I uploaded a 3MB file and it then told me that I had 3Mb/250Gb filled.
So please be correct in your articles.
May 1st, 2008
I agree with the article, I’ve tried out a bunch, free hard drive space is awesome and I wasn’t too impressed with filedropper. My favorite is http://www.adrive.com but there are a few others like megaupload, xdrive, and box.net that are good too. Adrive beats them with speed and 50GB for free though. I plan to keep on using filedropper, they may improve their services after all the media attention dies down.
May 1st, 2008
It appears that filedropper is lying about the 5GB upload. It’s been bugging me for a while (being a web programmer) there is a 2GB cap for file uploads and I was trying to figure out how they got around it. So, I just tested uploading a 3GB file and it didn’t work. Has anyone been able to upload a file larger than 2GB to file dropper?
December 23rd, 2008
Just left this comment in the other post about the retraction and though it’d be helpful here as well. These Special 250GB Premium “Lifetime” Accounts are still available here: http://www.FileDropperAccounts.com
I bought two yesterday and both accounts says they’re paid until 2038 and I haven’t had any problems with them. It’s a lot cheaper than paying the monthly subscription fee (unless you only need to host or store files for a month).
Anyone still wanting one of these Lifetime Accounts should check it out because I couldn’t find them anywhere else and had missed the promotional period.