[TriLUG] OT: Dropbox vs Google Drive

[Warren Myers via TriLUG]

What I use (across various platforms (Linux, Windows, OS X, iOS)) in the
commercial space (though I have the free editions of all of them):

   - Dropbox
   - Box
   - OneDrive
   - Google Drive
   - Copy
   - iCloud Drive

What I use self-hosted:

   - OwnCloud
   - Seafile

I also use the following aggregators:

   - Jolicloud
   - odrive

All of them have great webUIs (alleviates cross-platform issues). Several
have good mobile clients (at least Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive).

There's also CrashPlan that I've heard about - though I don't know much
about it.

-Warren

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone had an opinion on these two services.  I got an
> extra 100 gbs free for 2 years when I bought my chromebook on drive but to
> this day there is not an official sync application for google drive on
> linux.  Meanwhile the dropbox client works very well.  Up until recently
> there was a price difference but as of right now their 1 TB plans are both
> at around $10 a month.
>
> I will probably continue to use both but I was wondering if you were to put
> money towards a TB of drive storage to use across IOS devices, Android
> devices, Linux computers, and the occasional WIndows machine then what
>  would you prefer and why.
>
> What I will be storing there, if it matters to the discussion:
>
> 1.  quick sync folders for pictures taken with mobile devices
> 2.  archive family pictures and video
> 3.  audio files for which I own solely or with a group of others the
> copyright
> 4.  video files which again I hold the copyright for.
> 5.  Encrypted compressed archives of tax and fiscal records
>
> I will no matter the mass storage service probably continue to use google
> drive/docs for collaborative document editing.
>
> Ken
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