If you are not familiar with Tencent, it is the biggest Internet company in China. Its popular social communication products (like WeChat and QQ) have more than 1 billions of users in China and around the world.
Sign-up is easy, just visit the following URL and fill in your email address, birthday (you can input any date) and password.
Click on the link in the mail. You will get the following screen with you QQ number.
To claim the free 10T space, you must to download Tencent Cloud app to you Android or iPhone and sign in with your QQ number.
You can search Tencent Cloud in Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
Google Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qq.qcloud
Apple App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/id522700349?mt=8&ls=1
Input you QQ number and click Login button
This app can synchronize your cloud storage to you phone and can also auto backup the photos on your phone (similar to Google+ Auto Backup). But for now, all you need to do is just login.
Last step is visiting following URL, login with your QQ id to claim your free 10TB of free storage:
Now you can visit the Web version of the Tencent Cloud and starting upload! The upload speed is not as fast as Google Drive and is acceptable.
You can also install a client application on your Windows PC so that the Cloud content can automatically synchronize with your file system. This client application can also automatically push the photos taken by your phone to your PC (Google+ Auto Backup does not have this feature). Following is the URL to download:
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Of course all this may be wrong and Tencent may merely be engaging in a huge exercise in philanthropy towards the population of Earth. Why not? Anything is possible.
Thank you Andy. I set it up too. Now, I can share pictures with my parents in China, where they cannot access Google+. Do you know Yahoo mail provides 1 TB storage for free. However, they don't have the cloud drive service yet. I heard that they may provide it early 2014. I hope they do and I hope they can share the 1 TB or bigger with the cloud drive. Then I may consider moving my backup files to Yahoo.
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