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Dropbox or Google Drive?

Dropbox or Google Drive?

  • Dropbox

    Votes: 208 83.2%

  • Google Drive

    Votes: 42 16.8%
  • Total voters
    250
I use Dropbox (102GB of storage) in combination with BoxCryptor.
It's a neat little program, which encrypts data on my disk on-the-fly, before they are pushed to Dropbox. The same process works in reverse, too, data is decrypted on-the-fly, when I access it.
The downside is, I cannot access my data via the browser.
I can download the files, but they remain encrypted and thus useless.
But I can live with that (I have a MacBook Air or iPad with me all the time anyway and I have BoxCryptor on both).
 
Why does it have to be one or the other? I use both Dropbox and Google drive along with Skydrive.
 
charlieegan3 said:
If you've got governments after you then you then you might not want to be using any online file storage services...
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Oh! I did not know the NSA & co now had filters in place, so that they listen in on only suspected terrorists. ::p

C'mon. Most democracies behave as if their people were their enemy.

RGDS,
 
just too much traffic on MEGA right now ... they will get things sorted out.

Dotcom is in this for the long haul.
 
GGJstudios said:
I wouldn't trust it, especially considering the owner's legal problems.
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I don't think it's less trustworthy than any other similar service out there. At least you get your files encrypted using the Mega service.
 
I hate to say it, but, if you are using your cloud storage for working on Microsoft Word Documents between a Mac at home and a PC at work or even a Mac and a Mac, Skydrive is THE way to go. That is until either Apple reintroduces an iDisk like product or MS builds Documents in the Cloud into both their Mac and Windows versions of Office (not likely).
 
My vote is for Dropbox, I used to have a google business account and we had syncing issues, we were constantly restarting the client to get the files to sync properly. We now use Dropbox and never have any issues. I have personally been using dropbox since it came out.
 
My vote is for dropbox for a number of reasons.

1. I can sync files between old PowerPC macs and my intel macs/PCs
2. If I work on a programming project, the other developer can work on it, I get the updated files, and I can work on it. This would out great.
3. Store data that me and the other developer will need (images, documents, etc)

So in all, DB does what I want, only unfortunate thing is space isn't so big.
 
I primary use Dropbox.

It has all my iPhone pictures and videos backed up to it.

I pay for Dropbox Pro.
 
I'm mainly using Google Drive purely because I have 115Gb of storage on there now thanks to a Chromebook (which I don't even use).
 
Well now, I wonder if this will change anybody's mind? (Google slashes prices for Google Drive; now way cheaper than Dropbox)

I have enjoyed Dropbox's simplicity and reliability for years and subscribe to their 100GB option, but now Google Drive will give me a terabyte for the same price. I'm thinking of getting both for a while and comparing...
 
Instead of going thru the pain of transferring data just wait. Due to economies of scale prices will continue to get slashed.
 
I used Dropbox at my previous work, Google Drive was way too unstable when used with AutoCAD. For personal stuff, I use Microsoft OneDrive.
 
I've been using Dropbox for a while now, but just started using OneDrive as well, as I have more free storage with them. I'll see how I can utilize both.

I also have bare bone storage accounts with Amazon, Apple, and Google as well, but I don't really use them.
 
ooninay said:
Well now, I wonder if this will change anybody's mind? (Google slashes prices for Google Drive; now way cheaper than Dropbox)

I have enjoyed Dropbox's simplicity and reliability for years and subscribe to their 100GB option, but now Google Drive will give me a terabyte for the same price. I'm thinking of getting both for a while and comparing...
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It would not make me stop using Dropbox because Google Drive isn't integrated in anywhere near the number of places Dropbox is. It would make me pay for Google storage before Dropbox storage though. I have 9.4GB of Dropbox storage, and it's plenty for me. I don't backup anything besides documents, but with 1TB of storage with Google Drive, I could very easily keep my Aperture and iTunes libraries in there as another layer of protection. With a FiOS connection, upload would be relatively quick after the initial upload. If Google Drive supports sparsebundles, I could keep sensitive data encrypted.

If Dropbox is forced to lower their pricing because of Google, I'd subscribe to Dropbox first, no question.
 
I tried to move from Dropbox to Google Drive because of the new pricing structure meant that I can get 1TB for the same price as my 115GB with Dropbox.

First problem I had was the Desktop app on my Mac It said it had synchronised all of my 125GB of files, but in reality it had only uploaded 3 x pdf files.
After searching the web I found a workaround. You need to delete all your files then restore them again each time it happens - which is every time you start the machine.

Once underway the machine slowed down as the Google app maxed out 1.5 processor cores of my i7 processor. I’ve never seen an app use so much processing power and I use music and video production software.

Next, when I went to check my file progress on the iOS app, I found the that it had not updated the file list. Another web search later and I found that the only way to update the file list was to remove the app, re-install it and go through the 2 step verification. This apparently has been like this for 4 months.
Third party apps can view the updated list though, it’s just google software that doesn't work with googles service.

On the other hand my Dropbox service and apps are instant, fast and silent (do not notice any processing reduction whilst they are working).

I'm sticking to Dropbox. I wouldn't even class googles software as BETA, it's way worse than that.
 
Redbull916 said:
I tried to move from Dropbox to Google Drive because of the new pricing structure meant that I can get 1TB for the same price as my 115GB with Dropbox.

First problem I had was the Desktop app on my Mac It said it had synchronised all of my 125GB of files, but in reality it had only uploaded 3 x pdf files.
After searching the web I found a workaround. You need to delete all your files then restore them again each time it happens - which is every time you start the machine.

Once underway the machine slowed down as the Google app maxed out 1.5 processor cores of my i7 processor. I’ve never seen an app use so much processing power and I use music and video production software.

Next, when I went to check my file progress on the iOS app, I found the that it had not updated the file list. Another web search later and I found that the only way to update the file list was to remove the app, re-install it and go through the 2 step verification. This apparently has been like this for 4 months.
Third party apps can view the updated list though, it’s just google software that doesn't work with googles service.

On the other hand my Dropbox service and apps are instant, fast and silent (do not notice any processing reduction whilst they are working).

I'm sticking to Dropbox. I wouldn't even class googles software as BETA, it's way worse than that.
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While I'm (still) a Dropbox Pro user and fan, I heard a lot of praises for Insync Google Drive client - https://www.insynchq.com/
 
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Just moved away from Dropbox Pro 100GB service to Google Drive 100GB.

Everything Dropbox does, Google Drive does (at least for what I'm using it for, including sharing folders). At $2 a month, the price can't be beat, the service is reliable and stable, and I'm already integrated in the Google ecosystem.
 
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