Google Drive vs. WeTransfer
Which side are you on for file sharing?
GONE ARE THE DAYS of sending a USB stick containing work, photographs, or other important documents over to your colleagues via snail mail or carrier pigeon. If you are clinging on to the old ways, then fair enough, but times have changed and there are now much quicker and more efficient ways of sharing your files across the internet.
Google Drive provides an effective all-in-one home for your file management needs.
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Thankfully, using the cloud is a much more effective and secure method of sharing data. There are plenty of cloud services out there, but two of our favorite methods are Google Drive and WeTransfer—the two titans of the datasharing world. Although both platforms differ in many ways, at their core, they both allow you to send and receive files for free. Paid options are also available for both services and we will touch on the finer details of these later.
Both of these services are fairly recent inventions. WeTransfer was founded in 2009 by Bas Beerens and Ronald “Nalden” Hans in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The pair simply wanted to solve a problem they were experiencing at the time, which was sending large intensive design files across the internet. At its launch, WeTransfer had humble beginnings—its only function was to send files of up to 2GB in size for free.