Cloud Storage: Five Alternatives Compared

[Guest]

Why do you link to what somebody else has to say about Google's terms of service, instead of just saying it yourself? It's weird to me when somebody says they are reviewing a product, but doesn't state what it's biggest negative is, they just link to another description of it. Afraid to blast The Giant yourself?

 

[Guest]

You guys seem to forget that there is also a Live Mesh app in addition to SkyDrive, that focuses on syncing selected folders between your PC's (that also does LAN syncing when available) so you can select SkyDrive folder for syncing in Mesh if you need to bypass internet-only sync.
So this extends feature list quite a bit (although Mesh is not SkyDrive, but can be combined with it and uses same account) while providing with alternative to online-only backup. For example my work and art projects folders are way too big to sync over cloud, so I backup my data by automatically duplicating on all my PC's. For other purposes Dropbox and Skydrive work the best (I use both for different needs).

 

[Guest]

Strange no one mentioned the CrashPlan it is superior in prise/performance to everything including DropBox, SkyDrive, etc. Just check their site. And their seeding is very convenient too: they send you their own 1 TB HD for that.

 

[Archean]

Too bad it will only sync certain file types. (Drop a .7z file in there and watch it go nowhere.)

Not sure how you got to this conclusion as I have several .7z files uploaded.

 

[TJGeezer]

I've been using CX.com for awhile now in addition to Dropbox. My shared folders in Dropbox are automatic and all the people who share files with me have Dropbox on their machines, so the hassle factor of changing would be extreme, especially since even with us all sharing video clips and pics and such, I'm rarely over 2GB of the 5GB available.

For backing up my work files I've been using CX.com - it syncs multiple folders automatically and is as painless to use as Dropbox in most respects. Unfortunately, the sync service is giving me some headaches right now - some of my key files (luckily also backed up in Dropbox) stopped syncing some time ago, I just discovered. I've updated to the most recent client for Windows and hope that fixes the problem, since I'm using over half the available 10GB for large DOC files plus my ebook collection and would hate to shift all that over to a more restricted service like SkyDrive.

I like CX.com a lot and REALLY hope the software update makes it sync again.

 

[Guest]

to add to Cubby's features...... encryption.

 

[treetops]

Thanks again for reminding me to backup my school work, I went with Google Drive. I'm loving cloud storage.