Drive offers sweet prepaid subscriptions for 100GB 1TB users

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 21 Dec 2016

If you’re a heavy user of Drive, there’s an early holiday gift waiting for you in your account: up to 17 percent off annual subscriptions.

Subscribers to the 100GB 1TB plans can now prepay for a full year of Drive for $19.99 $99.99, respectively, effectively getting in two months for free. eviously the plans cost $1.99 a month $9.99 a month with no option for paying up-front. The discounts do not apply to the higher 10TB, 20TB, 30TB plans, it’s unclear whether the new subscription options are available outside the U.S.

has been on a roll with Drive upgrades in recent weeks, bringing an easier way to manage Android device backups, making it less painful for ione switchers to transfer photos, contacts, calendar entries to a new Android phone. To take advantage of the new savings, simply click the Upgrade Storage tab in the menu, select either the 100GB or 1TB annual price that appears below the button showing the monthly cost.

y this matters: Drive already offers 15GB to users for free, a generous offer when compared to the 2GB Dropbox gives the 5GB offered to iCloud subscribers. The new annual plans are sure to make upgrading even more enticing to power users, however, while putting a little extra pressure on its competitors to keep pace.