For work or entertainment, one always needs online storage space. And among all the offers available on the market, the Swiss pCloud offers a unique solution: a lifetime service. An offer that also has the merit of being on sale.
If our smartphones take more and more successful photos and videos, it is often in spite of the storage space, whether local or in the clouds. To relieve the memory of our smartphones and computers, online storage services have naturally multiplied.
But free services know their limits: often limited storage space with few options. As for paid services, they are often very expensive over time, with a monthly charge sometimes as expensive as a telephone plan. Especially since if you stop paying, you lose access to your precious files.
For its part, pCloud, a specialist in clouds based in Switzerland, sets up an interesting alternative. It offers two “lifetime” storage plans (500 GB and 2 TB). That is, you only pay once and you can enjoy the benefits of pCloud for as long as you want. And on the occasion of Easter, pCloud is setting up a great promotion on its lifetime formulas. The pCloud Family subscription (up to 5 users each benefit from 2 TB of storage) coupled with the pCloud Encryption encryption service is billed at 400 euros instead of 1880 euros. A 79% discount for a service that will last you a lifetime.
Be careful, because if the promotion lasts until next April 18, the price of the offer will start to increase by 3 euros per hour from April 15 (8 am) until the deadline.
A clear and intuitive interface
If the primary purpose of an online storage service is to keep documents in the clouds, yet it is necessary to be able to do it easily. And this is the first strength of pCloud: to provide a clear interface, entirely in French and whose use is within everyone’s reach. All you need is a simple drag and drop of a file on the interface to store it in the clouds in a few seconds.
The clarity of the interface and its search engine also allow you to find your favorite documents very quickly, instead of wasting precious minutes in submenus hidden in the depths of a hard disk.
From storage to sharing, everything is done without shading
Depending on your needs, pCloud provides 500 GB or 2 TB of storage. An amount of memory equivalent to that found in most hard drives and other SSDs currently available on the market. You will therefore have plenty of room to store all your videos, photos, pieces of music or your work.
The Swiss has also made document sharing easy as pie. You can generate download links that allow you to share your files with people who have that link. The latter do not even need to have a pCloud account to access the folder containing the target file. Better still, thanks to this link, your loved ones can easily view or download all the documents or files present in the shared folder.
The other advantage of download links is that they allow access to photos and videos in their original quality. You will therefore not obtain a compressed file – less beautiful and detailed – as is the case when sharing via online messaging.
Absolute accessibility
A good online storage service must be accessible everywhere. And at this level, pCloud is faultless. You can access your account from the web browser, even with an extension (Chrome, Opera and Mozilla) that allows you to save your files directly to your account without using the “Save as”.
A pCloud Drive desktop application is also included. This, compatible with Windows as well as macOS or Linux, acts as a virtual hard disk on which you can save files from your computer or manage your account. The pCloud Backup function even takes care of automatically keeping on the clouds selected files on your PC. The insurance, if ever a problem occurs on your machine, not to lose your precious documents and work.
Mobile users, meanwhile, can access the pCloud service from their mobile, via the dedicated application, available on the Google Play Store or the App Store.
Whatever the software used, the synchronization is done in real time, which allows access to the latest version of each file wherever you are. A particularly valuable feature during remote collaborative work. No need to wait 24 hours for changes to be taken into account on a text file, for example.
What security does pCloud offer?
As private data theft has increased in recent years, pCloud has put security at the heart of its storage strategy. Based in Switzerland, pCloud enforces the country’s privacy laws, which are among the strictest in Europe. The company also complies with the GDPR guidelines put in place by the European Union. Finally, although they have servers located in Europe and the United States, pCloud will not transfer your files from one region to another without your consent. All your data will remain on the region of your choice.
For pure protection of your documents, pCloud uses TLS/SSL encryption, applied whenever a file is transferred from your device to a server. What’s more, your files are stored in at least three servers, with five copies, located in different places on the same data center. Additional safety in the event of a machine breakdown.
Finally, pCloud also allows you to subscribe to the pCloud Encryption service in order to encrypt your most sensitive files directly on your device. Enough to increase the security of your most precious archives thanks to a secure password mode created by you, and for you.
A promotional service for Easter
If pCloud offers an annual subscription, its most interesting formulas remain “lifetime” subscriptions which require only one payment.
Packages all the more attractive as they are currently on promotion. Indeed, pCloud offers an immediate discount of 79% on the combo pCloud Family (2 TB + up to 5 users) + pCloud Encryption. A drop that brings down the cost of the pack to 400 euros. But hurry, because if the promotion lasts until next April 18, the price of the offer will start to increase by 3 euros per hour from April 15 8 am until the deadline.