Poll Best cloud storage for personal use
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this was for the @Divine_Barakah
I find out amazon prime include illimited storage
I know, amazon is not different from google or microsoft, but if I can use cryptomator
P.S. I now saw 100GB lifetime Koofr storage offer on stacksocial for 30eu. For my use, I consider it the best offer
P.P.S. Even if I saw too the incredible price of IDrive mini
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Yes I am using Cryptomator on Android, Windows and Linux. Honestly, I have not reviewed its permissions, but I will later.this was for the @Divine_Barakah
I find out amazon prime include illimited storage
I know, amazon is not different from google or microsoft, but if I can use cryptomator
P.S. I now saw 100GB lifetime Koofr storage offer on stacksocial for 30eu. For my use, I consider it the best offer
P.P.S. Even if I saw too the incredible price of IDrive mini
@aidunno you should definitely get the deal. You won't regret it, I promise. But please use your mail email address to sign up. Koofr recently blocked changing the email address of lifetime accounts to protect against misuse and reselling. So please use an email that you do not need to change. Even if you contact support, they will refuse to change it for you.
ProTruckDriver
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I don't have any PC's anymore (Microsoft Free Now). My 2 Mac's, Mac mini M4 & 27 inch iMac are using iCloud.
Do you pay for cryptomator? I think 30eu is too much for me
Cryptomator is free. On Android, I purchased it years ago for $9
Thumbs down for Interxt from me.
No functionality on desktop or mobile. Support suggests a fix may be available in a future release, but they haven't told me what the issue is.
Bills me for the Essential plan even though my disk quota is stuck at 0.
Support claimed to have cancelled my subscription, but it still shows as active. I thus cannot delete the account.
No functionality on desktop or mobile. Support suggests a fix may be available in a future release, but they haven't told me what the issue is.
Bills me for the Essential plan even though my disk quota is stuck at 0.
Support claimed to have cancelled my subscription, but it still shows as active. I thus cannot delete the account.
I agree. It's tempting, until you see that the mobile app cannot even stream multimedia.
Wouldn't surprise me with HDD?SSD/DDR prices rising astronomically that cloud services raise prices. Best lock in deals now me thinks.
Does anyone know if there have been any changes to Mega regarding privacy since it moved its headquarters to Hungary?
I switched to Filen, a more private and secure alternative to Mega, and still get the same free storage size of 20 GB, so I didn’t lose anything. For anyone interested, you can sign up and receive 20 GB of free storage using the following link: Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage
acyclovir
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I’ve had Drime for only a few days, so this is a first look, not a long-term verdict. It’s my secondary cloud, not my only copy of anything.
How I ended up with 11 TB
I first bought a Drime + Transfr 1 TB lifetime deal. That’s the bundle that unlocks custom domains and subdomains for Transfr, so transfers go out under my own domain. Transfers sent from inside Drime still use a generic Transfr link. Then I found a separate 10 TB lifetime deal (about US$249). Drime lets you stack lifetime storage until December 1, 2026. The slightly annoying part is that stacking isn’t automatic: you have to open a ticket with support so they merge the storage into one account.
Why I picked it
I compared Filen, pCloud, Koofr, Proton Drive and Drime from Colombia. I wanted a lot of space without another monthly bill, and somewhere to keep an off-site copy of my backups.
Speed (Colombia, same 1 GB file, same connection)
rclone (my main use)
When you send a document you pick one of two levels:
Real-world test: I used the advanced signature for an agreement with a former employer that a Colombian financial institution accepted. Both parties signed through Drime, and it saved me a trip to sign in person.
The only thing it isn’t is a qualified signature (QES), the EU’s top level, which requires identity verification by a qualified trust provider. Few everyday procedures need that, but if one explicitly asks for it, check first.
Encrypted Vault
Drime includes a Vault, files are encrypted on your device before upload, and the keys come from a Vault passphrase that Drime says never reaches its servers. You can preview PDFs and photos inside it, and share files through encrypted links (optional password and expiry) that recipients decrypt in their browser without an account. Drime can’t reset it, so if you lose the passphrase, the files are gone.
One caveat before trusting it with anything critical: in late 2025 Drime was criticized for marketing the Vault as “zero-knowledge”, while a Drime representative said on Reddit that it’s end-to-end encrypted but not zero-knowledge. Drime called the claim a mistake. Its disclosed key derivation (PBKDF2, 250k iterations) is below current OWASP guidance, and there’s no independent audit I could find. I treat the Vault as a nice extra layer. For truly sensitive files I still encrypt them myself before uploading (my backups already are).
Other features (only lightly tried)
[4/5] Fast uploads, generous stackable lifetime storage, solid rclone support with sensible API permissions, and more extras than I expected: the advanced signing held up in a real procedure with a Colombian financial institution, plus screenshots and OnlyOffice. Stacking through support is a small hassle, and I’d like to see the Vault independently audited. I’m holding off on a final rating until I’ve done a full restore and used it for a few months.
I’m not affiliated with Drime.
How I ended up with 11 TB
I first bought a Drime + Transfr 1 TB lifetime deal. That’s the bundle that unlocks custom domains and subdomains for Transfr, so transfers go out under my own domain. Transfers sent from inside Drime still use a generic Transfr link. Then I found a separate 10 TB lifetime deal (about US$249). Drime lets you stack lifetime storage until December 1, 2026. The slightly annoying part is that stacking isn’t automatic: you have to open a ticket with support so they merge the storage into one account.
Why I picked it
I compared Filen, pCloud, Koofr, Proton Drive and Drime from Colombia. I wanted a lot of space without another monthly bill, and somewhere to keep an off-site copy of my backups.
Speed (Colombia, same 1 GB file, same connection)
- Drime (web upload): ~16 s, about 63 MB/s on average, peaking near 114 MB/s.
- Filen (desktop app): ~26–29 s, about 35–39 MB/s.
- pCloud, US region (web upload): ~84 s, about 12 MB/s.
rclone (my main use)
- rclone has had a native Drime backend since v1.73, and it works well. I set it up on an Unraid server to push disk images there every week.
- API tokens have granular permissions. I created one with write access to files and folders only, and no access to sharing, the Vault or the account. Combined with rclone’s root_folder_id, the server can only see one folder.
- First upload: a 115 GiB image at about 34 MB/s, dropping to ~16 MB/s while the server’s disks were busy with something else. It finished without errors and the size matched.
- No hashes or modification times. Syncs compare file size only, which is fine for files that never change (backup images) but risky for documents you edit.
- Deleted files go to Drime’s trash, and rclone can’t empty it. I use the hard-delete option for old backups.
- rclone about fails unless the token also has the analytics permission.
- The Windows app syncs folders and shows up in Explorer like any other cloud drive. No problems so far.
- For the custom Transfr domain you add a CNAME and a TXT record. One thing that cost me time: on Cloudflare, the CNAME has to be DNS only (grey cloud). When proxied, verification fails because Drime sees Cloudflare’s IPs instead of the target. You can also set your own logo, favicon and the title/description for link previews.
When you send a document you pick one of two levels:
- Simple signature: signers open the link and sign. Each document gets a timestamped, tamper-evident seal and an audit certificate. Drime presents it as a simple electronic signature under the EU’s eIDAS framework.
- Advanced signature (AES): adds a one-time code by SMS or email at signing time, binds the signature to the exact document and the fields filled in, and issues a named certificate per signer. The signing panel labels the document as AES.
Real-world test: I used the advanced signature for an agreement with a former employer that a Colombian financial institution accepted. Both parties signed through Drime, and it saved me a trip to sign in person.
The only thing it isn’t is a qualified signature (QES), the EU’s top level, which requires identity verification by a qualified trust provider. Few everyday procedures need that, but if one explicitly asks for it, check first.
Encrypted Vault
Drime includes a Vault, files are encrypted on your device before upload, and the keys come from a Vault passphrase that Drime says never reaches its servers. You can preview PDFs and photos inside it, and share files through encrypted links (optional password and expiry) that recipients decrypt in their browser without an account. Drime can’t reset it, so if you lose the passphrase, the files are gone.
One caveat before trusting it with anything critical: in late 2025 Drime was criticized for marketing the Vault as “zero-knowledge”, while a Drime representative said on Reddit that it’s end-to-end encrypted but not zero-knowledge. Drime called the claim a mistake. Its disclosed key derivation (PBKDF2, 250k iterations) is below current OWASP guidance, and there’s no independent audit I could find. I treat the Vault as a nice extra layer. For truly sensitive files I still encrypt them myself before uploading (my backups already are).
Other features (only lightly tried)
- Screenshots: it can save screenshots straight into your Drime, and it has a basic image editor (annotations, arrows, highlighting and so on), similar to ShareX. Handy for capturing and sharing in one step.
- OnlyOffice is built in as the viewer for office documents.
- Workspaces for collaborating with other people.
- There’s a lot more I haven’t explored yet.
- Outside the Vault, files aren’t end-to-end encrypted, so Drime can technically read them. Even the Vault’s privacy claims have been disputed (see above). For sensitive documents, encrypt them yourself before uploading.
- The company is young (around 2023). A lifetime plan is a bet that it lasts. Several reviews mention slow support; so far I’ve only contacted them to stack the storage, it took 2 days to be applied
- It doesn’t replace a real backup strategy. In my case it’s the off-site copy, not the main one.
- Not tested yet: download speed, restoring from Drime. (Macrium backups)
[4/5] Fast uploads, generous stackable lifetime storage, solid rclone support with sensible API permissions, and more extras than I expected: the advanced signing held up in a real procedure with a Colombian financial institution, plus screenshots and OnlyOffice. Stacking through support is a small hassle, and I’d like to see the Vault independently audited. I’m holding off on a final rating until I’ve done a full restore and used it for a few months.
I’m not affiliated with Drime.
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