Dropbox operates on the Freemium financial model. The free Dropbox account comes with 2GB of space that you can use for as long as you like. In the following you will learn how to quickly get up to 24 GB of free space on Dropbox, for life!
1. Get your free Dropbox account with an extra 250MB by signing up using this link.
2. Since it's a limited offer, get the Beta client from one of the links below and upload photos or videos for up to 5GB.
Windows: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.exe
Mac OS X: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/Dropbox%201.3.13.dmg
Linux x86_64: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-1.3.13.tar.gz
Linux x86: http://dl-web.dropbox.com/u/17/dropbox-lnx.x86-1.3.13.tar.gz
All you have to do to get your free space is test our camera upload feature. Here's how:
- Upload a photo using camera upload and you'll instantly get 500MB of extra Dropbox space
- Every 500MB you upload via the camera upload feature bumps you up another 500MB
- You can bump your Dropbox storage up ten times for a total of 5GB of free space. In other words, to reach your limit you have to upload 4.5GB through the camera upload feature
- The Dropbox space you earn is permanent. You can use it for the life of your account.
3.Complete "Get Started" (+250MB). Dropbox offers an extra 250MB for completing 5 out of 7 Steps.
4. Go to https://www.dropbox.com/free and complete the social quests for another 750MB (the things you'll do for more storage space, heh ?!)
But Technophile, that adds up to just over 16GBs! You promised me 24 GBs!
Yeah, yeah, so you can count. Didn't fool you. Well good news, since you can do basic math then you must be attending college. Students can head over to https://www.dropbox.com/edu and register their .edu email. Your university might not provide .edu accounts (mine didn't) but you can still request student privileges as long as they can validate the email to be linked with some institution of higher education. This will double the amount of free space that every referral has given or will give you from this point on. That means that instead of up to 8GBs you may earn up to 16GBs through referrals.
http://support.newagepcs.com/showthread.php?14449-How-to-make-a-free-EDU-email
The above tip will probably be blacklisted after a while so hurry! Enjoy all that free storage !