The innovation of Cloud storage has brought many changes in everyday life. There was a time when people used USBs and other external devices to store data. Nowadays, you can simply upload files to the Cloud from one place of the globe today and access these files from another place tomorrow.
When you sign up or create an account to Google instantly you will receive 15 GBs of free storage. This storage is enough for many users. If you want to boost Google Drive’s cloud storage without paying any penny, then follow these steps:
- Google offers the services of Google Photos. Just download the app and sign in through your Google account. You can back up your files by turning on Sync. You can easily change the Low Quality of images into the High Quality in Google Photos. You can save the bulk of photos and videos in Google Photos. Remember Google Photos will not eat up the Storage that is gifted to you by Google Drive.
- Another storage hack is Google Docs. In Google Docs you can save all your Microsoft Word files into Google Docs. It will not affect your Google Drive storage of 15 GB.
- If you have files of the PDF format, simply by carefully changing the format to Doc you can easily save them to Google Docs.
- If you have a .edu account then you are very lucky. A .edu account is provided to students and teachers by the institution. A .edu account holder can get an unlimited amount of storage from Google. You can upload your data and save it permanently.
- You can easily recover some storage by deleting undesired emails from your inbox. As they eat up important storage that Google Drive bestows you.
- Delete duplicate files from the Google Drive. Use the Cloud Duplicate Finder application to erase dupes online.