Best cloud storage?

JoeClark

Hello,

I know people here may be tempted to say just use one drive, but I'm wondering what everyone thought was the best cloud storage platform to use? I'm considering either one drive or Dropbox and can't decide which is the better paid option. Keep in mind I'm looking for something that works well on PC, Mac, and iOS. I also ckecked Cloud Storage Video to know which is best but got more confused.And I'm unsure how well these solutions work on those platforms. Any thoughts?

Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

bengalknights

Google drive or one drive for using between different systems.

Geodark

I have used dropbox, onedrive and google drive - have to say, I prefer onedrive - but only because I have a family subscription for office 365 and for the 5 users I can have each get 1TB storage!

John_Gray

It depends somewhat on how much cloud space you need I'm quite happy with the amount of space available on the free version of Dropbox...

It syncs across four PCs on four different sites, but needs to be restarted (via Task Scheduler on each PC) about once a fortnight, on average.

S0litaire

Just a suggestion :

If it's personal you could host your own.

Buy a raspberry Pi Zero (for around £10) you can use the USB port on the back of most routers to power it.
A 64Bg micro SD card (around £20)
install OpenCloud set yourself up as a user.

Then all you need is a service like No-ip or duck-dns to point your IP address to a free domain name (i.e. http://your-example.duckdns.org) and off you go.

AndyPix

I love dropbox.
Works on all my devices cross platform - never had a single problem with it.


Google drive is a bit too googly for me (is that a word?)
One drive is a bit to microsofty !!

spud17

With AndyPix on this, free version of Dropbox (2GB) has never let me down and I've never had a problem with it needing a restart.:)
I also use Box.com (10GB) but found this can be slow when doing an initial upload.
Totally agree about, too Googly and too Microsofty.
I'm a big fan of Gmail, but anything else Google related I find adds even more unwanted e.g updaters etc to your machine.

[Deleted User]

S0litaire wrote: »

Just a suggestion :

If it's personal you could host your own.

Buy a raspberry Pi Zero (for around £10) you can use the USB port on the back of most routers to power it.
A 64Bg micro SD card (around £20)
install OpenCloud set yourself up as a user.

Then all you need is a service like No-ip or duck-dns to point your IP address to a free domain name (i.e. http://your-example.duckdns.org) and off you go.

Most routers these days have a USB port on them where you can stick in a USB flash drive to use as storage. Also a lot of routers already have no-ip type DNS services and FTP server built in. No need for a Raspberry Pi.

Also the main reason for cloud storage in my eyes is that it's safely off-site should anything happen to the local copies.

S0litaire

Deleted_User wrote: »

Most routers these days have a USB port on them where you can stick in a USB flash drive to use as storage. Also a lot of routers already have no-ip type DNS services and FTP server built in. No need for a Raspberry Pi.

Also the main reason for cloud storage in my eyes is that it's safely off-site should anything happen to the local copies.

Most of the ISP provided routers I've used has the usb file sharing limited to internal network only, That's why I suggested the r-Pi0w

[Deleted User]

S0litaire wrote: »

Most of the ISP provided routers I've used has the usb file sharing limited to internal network only, That's why I suggested the r-Pi0w

True but I never use the ISP supplied routers, always use my own. Even a basic TP-Link router from Argos or Amazon will have USB file sharing, DNS, and FTP server features.

AndyPix

spud17 wrote: »

i'm a big fan of gmail, but anything else google related i find adds even more unwanted e.g updaters etc to your machine.

+1 ..........