Best of the 11 online file storage services to store your file safe and secure.

These days there are plenty of online services where you can store your files either manually or can add the external storage location as another shared folder to your Finder/Explorer. As the technology matures the services make life easier by either offering more storage for cheaper price or can help keep all your devices synced.

Here are some 11 online storage services that offers a wide variety of different features,

Dropbox

Dropbox helps you store your files online with less hassle. It offers a way to integrate your Dropbox service location to your Mac Finder or Windows Explorer windows so you can just drag & drop files to your Dropbox. It offers 3 different plans, 2 GB for free, 50 GB for $9.99/month and 100 GB for $19.99/month.

Live Mesh

Live Mesh is Microsoft’s latest attempt on the online storage segment. It is an ambitious service that helps you keep many of your devices in sync with the files that you care. The devices list include Windows PCs, mobile devices and even Macs. So if you have a diverse computing environment then Live Mesh would be a service that could come in handy to keep all your important files in sync across all your devices. It offers 5 GB of free storage.

Carbonite

For $54.95 per year Carbonite offers unlimited online backup capacity. It is one of the more famous service that has a reliable name in the industry. Carbonite also allows you to remotely access your files from any computer.

Mozy

Compared to Carbonite, Mozy is slightly expensive but it is one of the most famous service when it comes to reliable online storage. You get 2 GB storage for free but when you pay $4.95 per month you get unlimited storage space.

Windows Live SkyDrive

SkyDrive offers 25 GB of free online storage for most of your files. You have to use its online interface to upload and download files. You can share files easily with anyone who has a Windows Live ID.

Humyo

Humyo offers 10 GB of free storage for all your files to be stored on a secured location. It offers paid plans for business as well as home users. You can easily share your stored files to anyone.

ADrive

ADrive is another service that offers reliable online storage up to 50 GB for free. It allows you to share files with anyone and also allows you to access it from anywhere. One advantage to using ADrive is that it allows you to FTP files into your storage account.

YouSendIt

Apart from storing your files safely online YouSendIt allows you to send large files to anyone. It’s a paid service for files more than 100 MB but if you really need to send/share really large files then you can turn to YouSendIt. There are 3 other paid plans to suite your needs.

FreeDrive

FreeDrive is a simple service that offers a mere 1 GB of of free storage. You can keep your uploaded files totally private or you can share it only with your friends or can share it publicly so anyone can see it.

FileQube

FileQube allows you to store up to 2 GB of free online storage. It allows you to share bigger files up to 150 MB for free. They offer a paid service to share files of bigger sizes. You can also upload up to 5 files concurrently.

MailBigFile

As the name implies MailBigFile allows you to send up to 200 MB file for free. They offer a Pro account that has many benefits including the ability to send bigger files, longer availability, faster uploads and encrypted transfer.