Advice Request Which cloud storage do you use?

[Pearl96]

Hello!

What cloud storage do you use?

What is special about it?

What is the feature that made you choose it?

Do you use the free or paid plan?​

 

[toto]

Dropbox - for photo upload,
Onedrive - for documents and office related stuff,

 

[Dani Santos]

Did you try make your own? For 50$ you can have 1tb of storage lifetime!

 

[Pearl96]

Dropbox - for photo upload,
Onedrive - for documents and office related stuff,

Great choices! I like Dropbox more! I feel One Drive a little bit buggy and sometimes you get slow upload speed

 

[Pearl96]

Did you try make your own? For 50$ you can have 1tb of storage lifetime!

I am reading about this service now! For me the most important feature is the integration with other services! What about the HDD link ? hahahahah good idea

 

[Dani Santos]

I am reading about this service now! For me the most important feature is the integration with other services! What about the HDD link ? hahahahah good idea

Because you need to have your own server to use owncloud.

 

[DJ Panda]

Google Drive
MEGA
PCloud

All three are really good IMO!

 

[ttto]

My family and I have Mediafire Pro (1TB) for uploading our photos, mum's docs... etc. Mediafire is a fantastic service and it has very good prize. I use Google Drive, because I have an educational account with unlimited storage, which I use for work and for upload all my phone stuff.. etc

 

[DracusNarcrym]

I use Google Drive for main documents due to its reliability (it's Google, the datacenter king... what can go wrong?).

Dropbox for easy sync tasks, and MEGA for simple/temporary file storage (I am aware of MEGA's notoriety lol).

Another cloud service (for temporary file/screenshot/code snippet/etc sharing) that I use is puush, via the ShareX client.


Do keep in mind that there are unlimited bandwidth/storage space services like Amazon and Backblaze for storing literally all of your files (not recommended to rely 100% on them of course, multiple backups are always recommended).

Another feature I'd look for in cloud software is automatic file versioning/history (although I wouldn't use it ).

 

[Pearl96]

Google Drive
MEGA
PCloud

All three are really good IMO!

What are special about them if you don't mind?

 

[Pearl96]

My family and I have Mediafire Pro (1TB) for uploading our photos, mum's docs... etc. Mediafire is a fantastic service and it has very good prize. I use Google Drive, because I have an educational account with unlimited storage, which I use for work and for upload all my phone stuff.. etc

Today I have cancelled my MediaFire Pro account; their website is very buggy, their iOS app is very limited, and I don't know anything about their security measures

 

[DracusNarcrym]

What are special about them if you don't mind?

I know pCloud has fantastic file versioning, for one - if I might add to @J Gamez065's post, and partially answer your query.

 

[Pearl96]

I use Google Drive for main documents due to its reliability (it's Google, the datacenter king... what can go wrong?).

Dropbox for easy sync tasks, and MEGA for simple/temporary file storage (I am aware of MEGA's notoriety lol).

Another cloud service (for temporary file/screenshot/code snippet/etc sharing) that I use is puush, via the ShareX client.


Do keep in mind that there are unlimited bandwidth/storage space services like Amazon and Backblaze for storing literally all of your files (not recommended to rely 100% on them of course, multiple backups are always recommended).

Another feature I'd look for in cloud software is automatic file versioning/history (although I wouldn't use it ).

Great! I don't trust Mega anymore. I am thinking of Dropbox or Google for now (not sure yet).

 

[Pearl96]

I know pCloud has fantastic file versioning, for one - if I might add to @J Gamez065's post, and partially answer your query.

I have 500GB on pCloud ( I have joined their 100 insiders programme and I've been rewarded a free 1 year of their pro plan ) I really like pcloud but wish if it is integrated with other services (Dropbox is the king in this point)

 

[DracusNarcrym]

Great! I don't trust Mega anymore. I am thinking of Dropbox or Google for now (not sure yet).

I have 500GB on pCloud ( I have joined their 100 insiders programme and I've been rewarded a free 1 year of their pro plan ) I really like pcloud but wish if it is integrated with other services (Dropbox is the king in this point)

Dropbox offers indeed the most features and functionality at the moment. For actively used/accessed/modified files (documents especially), Dropbox would be my choice.

But nevertheless, for overall reliability and for long-term storage and archiving, I'd always choose Google. (even if Dropbox pricing plans beat Google's)

Aaaaaand here comes the privacy hate on Google... Honestly it's a very reliable service in my opinion. lol

 

[codswollip]

Amazon Drive. Unlimited storage at $60/year, plus Tresorit promotional account.

 

[509322]

Ease-of-Use and reliability + file versioning > DropBox

pCloud Drive creates a new drive\partition that is a PITA.

 

[DJ Panda]

Great! I don't trust Mega anymore. I am thinking of Dropbox or Google for now (not sure yet).

If you put non-sensitive data on MEGA (might not be the best at all for any provider) you should be fine.

My take on it anyway.

 

[Pearl96]

If you put non-sensitive data on MEGA (might not be the best at all for any provider) you should be fine.

My take on it anyway.

I do upload sensitive data, so Mega is excluded

 

[Pearl96]

Dropbox offers indeed the most features and functionality at the moment. For actively used/accessed/modified files (documents especially), Dropbox would be my choice.

But nevertheless, for overall reliability and for long-term storage and archiving, I'd always choose Google. (even if Dropbox pricing plans beat Google's)

Aaaaaand here comes the privacy hate on Google... Honestly it's a very reliable service in my opinion. lol

I see! But who Dropbox beats Google in terms of Price?