I just want to sync my photos and videos of my phone while keeping the same folder structure instead of a big mess of all files in a single bucket, and having a clear indication whether a file I'm deleting on the cloud will be deleted on the phone and vice versa. Google Photos fails on all of these items.
@@sulogno yeah why not. OneDrive has cloud upload option. And you can customize upload by months and years and create albums too. Not as feature packed as Google Photos but gets the job of storing memories done perfectly fine and I'm content with that. Apart from photos, google drive doesn't come with any useful extra perks. Onedrive comes with office, speech to text transcription, password protected sharing files, a vault option and much more so seems more value for money
I think google drive is way better than onedrive. Remember you cant do a network drive on onedrive. So even though it is in the cloud, onces you click on a file it will download everything on your computer. So if you dont have space, it will fill up your space fast. With Google it acts like a network drive. Meaning no space is taken up.
pCloud: you should mention that pCloud is focused on lifetime plans. Here it has long price advantages. Also encryption can be purchased per one-time, no subscription. pCloud compared itself with a harddrive you buy.
Agreed on Sync's poor performance when it comes to speed. I use it however because it uses zero knowledge encryption, which as a freelancer is important to protect client data. If Sync ever improved their speed though to the likes of Dropbox, it would be perfect.
Been using SYNC for years. The files I deal with are generally smaller, but lots of them. In that respect, it is pretty quick. Plus, SYNC is in Canada, so immune to the Patriot Act.
Excellent review of some of the dominant providers. Clear and concise. 👍 Bearing in mind that not all platforms are zero knowledge encrypted, and Dropbox (for example) openly states that it will scan users' data (and allow some third parties to do the same), using a completely independent encryption software is a necessity. No matter the Cloud storage provider's data security policy, including compliance with requests from legal authorities, your data will always be private.
Thank you! Yep most of the big cloud names will do that, great to have options such as Sync! Surprised Apple actually performs quite well there to set your own encryption, though they still scan your photos for face matching etc which is interesting how they achieve that on encrypted data 👀
@@PeteMatheson And they say iCloud is really about privacy. If it is like you said, then it defeats the purpose😅 What about family videos? Is Apple able to scan individual faces in the video as well?
Google drive is wonderful! Onedrive is … decent mainly just for saving mainly word docs and powerpoint otherwise personally I think google does it all (and yes im a apple user)
The problem with Google drive and Onedrive is that they are not "zero knowledge proof" - so whatever you have on there can be viewed by Google & Microsoft but if you're ok with that then its fine.
.. I can garuntee you regardless about the zero knowledge thing they still go through your stuff and sell it and + if your just some random online they aren’t gonna be going through your stuff if you own a business then sure I completely understand otherwise meh
None of those. MEGA all the way. It’s the only open-source cloud, the only one with end-to-end security, the only one with Linux support, and the only one offering 20GB of free storage.
@Pete Matheson I always watch your content. However in the thumbnail Drive is in the trash column. I didn't see how the video addressed it, which is why I asked.
one thing that wasn't mentioned... My files are encrypted on my windows 10 machine. Google Drive and iDrive don't support uploading encrypted files, which is a pain.
onedrive can't even tell how to manage photos, and is the main reason why people choose cloud in the first place, onedrive also fails misserably when you try to upload big files, i remember losing a job project thanks to onedrive taking over half a day to sync a file
After listening to a multitude of yak-yak from a half dozen or more of talking heading, regarding this subject matter, you sir were the most pragmatic and communicative of all. Thank you for this very well rounded and forthright overview of the online, external hard drive landscape! Based on speed, I'm going to go with Google drive until price tells me something different!
I’ve been using the unlimited Dropbox for 3 years already, it’s the best ever! At first ive been using it by my own, but couple of my buddies loved it so now I share it with them! I’m having almost 100TB of data there, it’s easy to access on every device I have, and sync process is so smooth! Cheers from Japan, great video!
@@TripleMachine No, its 1000% seperate. On the business account u can get access to 3 accounts. if u share it with a friend to split the bill sort of speak, under-no-circumstances, can 1 account see the 2nd account at all... (UNLESS) you share and SYNC a file TOGETHER For both accounts, then whatever u put INTO that folder can be seen from BOTH accounts or all 3. (if you gave it those permissions) but other than that??? its 1000% entirely seperated. and not visible to any of the 3 accounts
@@davidsjourney1770 How much data do you start with on the Advance plan with 3 users? and second questions, how easy is it to request more space? do they ask a bunch of questions?
Idrive: 45 GB took 19 hrs. Original estimate for 350 GB was 24 hrs. My ISP plan upload speed is 5Mbps (other sources say I'm supposed to get 10Mbps) 5Mbs is equal to 2.25GB per hour. I would have been a lot more selective and batched the files.
Okay, so I'm a university students and whenever I wanna do work with my group matesx it's always hard to transfer files, photos and videos with them. I thought why not use a cloud storage and decided to try out drop box. But, the problem here is that most of my group mates can't afford a plan for a cloud storage and when using drop box, it uses everyone's storage instead of mine alone. So, do you know any cloud storages or a software of some kind that when you share a folder, it will consume the owner's storage and not everyone's (like drop box) or whoever posted the new file (like Google drive).
Google I believe no longer offers unlimited storage. I was on that package when I noticed alarm bells going off saying that I no longer had space with my Unlimited Google Workspace Drive. They switched to a pooled storage solution where each account you add to your Google Workspace you get a combined storage of 5TB per account you are paying for. So for example right now, I went from Unlimited Storage to 5TB then I added two more accounts to my Google Workspace and I now have 15TB of Google Workspace Storage. :-( I'm not happy about it but what can we do.. lol ..
You can still get unlimited but you have to upgrade to their new 'enterprise' plans, which have no public pricing - but you can see pricing and upgrade from within the Workspace admin subscriptions section.
I use Apple's icloud to sync a desktop folder across all my Macs, but I also have Dropbox and G-Drive syncing the same desktop folder, which all seems redundant, but I need Dropbox for sharing files with other business, and unfortunately DropBox doesn't store G-sheets or G-Docs so I also pay for G-Drive. What would you recommend for streamlining my cloud storage ?
I went with the pCloud 2TB lifetime a few years ago during its Black Friday sale. The main feature I like is it appears as an external HDD, making it easy to access from the command line, e.g. with robocopy, etc. It confuses Google Drive with it asking if I wish to back up my P drive. 😁 Originally I found it slow until they gave the option to move my data to a European data centre. It also has a useful web hosting feature where the files appear as a static html website or or let users users browse and choose what to download.
@@E-dirts You do realise that there is no such thing as a lifetime plan, don't you? Whatever the price you paid it will become unprofitable for pCloud in the long run. so they either will be bankrupt or they will kick you out of the plan.
@@VFPn96kQT In fact it IS a lifetime plan. I suppose you know Appsumo? It's always the lifetime of the product. Also if you buy a Tomtom with lifetime updates. So there are definitely lifetime plans, unless you misunderstand the meaning.
@@mandrael it's a life time plan for a lifetime of the company at best. You can't have a onetime payment that can cover something that has a constant cost indefinitely. At some point you will become a net loss for the company.
@@PeteMatheson Oh man, that's amazing success! First time I have come across your channel. Well done and thanks for the video. It helped me decide what storage to go for in the end.
With I drive, i dont want backup, I just want somewhere to store video tha i am going to edit or have already edited. Is this possible? Every thing says back up.
I'm on Iphone. Does anyone know if there is a way to quickly select multiple files (hundreds upon hundreds from dozens of folders) and download them all from an iphone?
Watched your video, mainly hoping to see the differences between “app functionality.” I did not really hear information that I wanted. I am presently looking for an alternative to Google one storage only not syncing. I have an Apple phone so I recently subscribed to iCloud only to find out that they do not even have a functional app so I’m going to cancel that. I am very satisfied with the Google Drive app and I’m looking for something that is similar and think I’m going to try out Dropbox. If you have any additional information or comments, that would be appreciated, thank you very much for your great work.
From a phone app perspective, I'd usually recommend Google or Apple, particulaly if you're on iPhone. Otherwise yep something like Dropbox would be worth a try, they've been around for a long time and have had a while to really make their app shine!
Pete, excellent review. One question, I do have a couple of Linux boxes on my network and I didn't see Linux listed for any of these services. Can you expand on if Linux operates well on these services? Thanks
could you go over how they handle multiple users saving to the same file? kinda like oedrive allows multiple people to edit a excel document at the same time.
What if I need only a cloud based backup of the family media archive (photos and videos) from my home NAS/private cloud? How about AWS S3 own setup, using e.g. Glacier service, Retention Polices, etc. I mean I don't really need to be able to watch or play anything from it. Just an external, physically separated backup of most important stuff (3-2-1 principle). To have online access to photos & videos I will use home NAS.
one concern of mine is eg if you take a 100gigs plan of Google drive. If it gets maxed out you can't opt out for same plan but take next ie 200gigs. Is there any bypass?
Tbh, as an Apple user, iCloud is SO bad. It's not a delocalized storage solution, it's only mirroring. You can't have some data on the cloud without having them on cloud, which seems crazy to me. That's literally the point of using cloud...
Is Google Drive slow for you as well? When I create a large file (video) in my Google Drive (mac) I have to wait for the file to be synced to cloud first, only then I can open it. It drives me crazy. (Stream option selected)
If I will buy idrive plan will there any limit of file link expire or it will be for lifetime until I will not delete the file from my idrive, please reply it’s urgent
If I will buy idrive plan will there any limit of file link expire or it will be for lifetime until I will not delete the file from my idrive, please reply it’s urgent
one point i believe you miss out is some providers have life time plans, one pay boom thats it, icrease the value significantly for some options and is a true game changer
Very true! I did mention that in my previous reviews but it made the videos too long to explain so decided to cut that part this year. But very valid point!
I was with ONEDRIVE and created additional email account and shared other accounts to my self, so I ended up 6TB of storage but ran into issues backing my music & video files - it did not like them, so cancelled with them and now trying IDrive. I notice some of my Japanese music gone off Google Drive (maybe copy right issue in UK - can only play the music via UA-cam Music as restricted on Spotify to Japan accounts only for example and could only purchase songs via Itunes). Anyway, for £6.73 for the first year and 5TB of storage, that a great solution for me at the moment :) PS: I also use BackBlaze to back up everything, just encase a HDD fails or OS gets corrupted which has happened and steam had not backed up any of my saved games files - backblaze to the rescue.
@@nguyenhuuminh180 I had purchased loads of songs off Google Play music and onedrive won't allow me to back them up, basically. They seem to be strict on copyright stuff.
Reasons I chose iDrive: (1) They do not delete your files from the backup if you delete them off your computer. Other services do! Only you can delete the files. (2) They don't care how many devices are on one subscription. I have five computers, 2 phones and an iPad all on one account. So, I can access any of the files from any of my devices. This has proven to be real handy when my older iMac died. I just went online and downloaded the files I needed from that computer's backups. (3) If you need to download a ton of files, they will send them to you on a disc or thumbdrive or something. I downloaded whole folders of documents and it wasn't unreasonably slow.
Hey, so he mentioned in the video that maximum upload for a file was 10Gb for Idrive? What does that mean? Like for example if i wanted to upload a folder on my pc with games that has like 50GB for the game, it wont upload to the idrive?
Hi, can you tell me when you download pics and videos from idrive , does it have the proper date, time and year or does it change? I want a storage that when I download my photos they keep the original date , time and year.
How would you expect the upload and download speeds to change with Gigabit Google Fiber internet? I just ran a few random speed tests and had 400 - 900 Mbps from different test sites.
If website offer only 40Mbps transfer you will not get faster transfer If you have anything more than 40Mbps, most websites are limited to 100Mbps, you need something like max 15Mbps to watch highest possible quality on UA-cam, and also checking internet speed with sites like speed test doesn't mean anything because you just connect to your ISP servers that have highest priority in internet traffic, for example sometimes ISP have a separate Highway for site like speed test and offload road for normal websites, this is called QoS - Quality of Service
I'm on a Mac. I know it's not directly related to the topic here but Mail Drop is the greatest iCloud feature. It save me a lot of "cloud management" given I can just email large files to clients.
Man these prices are salty if you are solo user and have 10TB+ of data and live in nordic countries. I've tried backblaze and crashplan but their nearest servers are in netherlands so my uploadspeed peaks at 3megabits/ps, not megabytes... megabits/ps.
Another thing to keep in mind, pick one that will be around, in the future.
iCloud and dropbox, and google for me.
Can you please explain me why did you place google drive as "Trash" on thumbnail, and in whole video no mention of bad stuff ad google drive?
@@fdjolo probably a bait so we will watch his video and to find the reasons...
I just want to sync my photos and videos of my phone while keeping the same folder structure instead of a big mess of all files in a single bucket, and having a clear indication whether a file I'm deleting on the cloud will be deleted on the phone and vice versa. Google Photos fails on all of these items.
I know ... This irritates me so much.. I delete a photo on google and its gone on my phone.. What did you get for storage?
I have Microsoft 365 Family, which comes with 1TB of storage for each user. So far, everything has gone swimmingly (4 years of experience).
Would you recommend Microsoft 365 over iCloud especially for storing lot of photos from iPhone and iPad?
@@sulogno if you're really in the Apple universe, I would suggest using iCloud
@@sulogno yeah why not. OneDrive has cloud upload option. And you can customize upload by months and years and create albums too. Not as feature packed as Google Photos but gets the job of storing memories done perfectly fine and I'm content with that. Apart from photos, google drive doesn't come with any useful extra perks. Onedrive comes with office, speech to text transcription, password protected sharing files, a vault option and much more so seems more value for money
@@jisnukalita t
For photos Google is best
I think google drive is way better than onedrive. Remember you cant do a network drive on onedrive. So even though it is in the cloud, onces you click on a file it will download everything on your computer. So if you dont have space, it will fill up your space fast.
With Google it acts like a network drive. Meaning no space is taken up.
pCloud: you should mention that pCloud is focused on lifetime plans. Here it has long price advantages. Also encryption can be purchased per one-time, no subscription. pCloud compared itself with a harddrive you buy.
Agreed on Sync's poor performance when it comes to speed. I use it however because it uses zero knowledge encryption, which as a freelancer is important to protect client data. If Sync ever improved their speed though to the likes of Dropbox, it would be perfect.
Yep exactly this. Trade off on speed Vs security. It seems they cap transfer speeds at 40Mb/s which kinda sucks but it's great for zero knowledge!
Been using SYNC for years. The files I deal with are generally smaller, but lots of them. In that respect, it is pretty quick. Plus, SYNC is in Canada, so immune to the Patriot Act.
Excellent review of some of the dominant providers. Clear and concise. 👍 Bearing in mind that not all platforms are zero knowledge encrypted, and Dropbox (for example) openly states that it will scan users' data (and allow some third parties to do the same), using a completely independent encryption software is a necessity. No matter the Cloud storage provider's data security policy, including compliance with requests from legal authorities, your data will always be private.
Thank you! Yep most of the big cloud names will do that, great to have options such as Sync!
Surprised Apple actually performs quite well there to set your own encryption, though they still scan your photos for face matching etc which is interesting how they achieve that on encrypted data 👀
@@PeteMatheson And they say iCloud is really about privacy. If it is like you said, then it defeats the purpose😅
What about family videos? Is Apple able to scan individual faces in the video as well?
Is AVG still scamming people?! 😂😂😂
It's been a while since Isaw that symbol. 😅
Thanks for the video though. 👍
Google drive is wonderful! Onedrive is … decent mainly just for saving mainly word docs and powerpoint otherwise personally I think google does it all (and yes im a apple user)
The problem with Google drive and Onedrive is that they are not "zero knowledge proof" - so whatever you have on there can be viewed by Google & Microsoft but if you're ok with that then its fine.
.. I can garuntee you regardless about the zero knowledge thing they still go through your stuff and sell it and + if your just some random online they aren’t gonna be going through your stuff if you own a business then sure I completely understand otherwise meh
Try to export the pictures... its a nightmare
@@David-yq6un I've had no issues have you had issues?
Sponsored by AVG… enough said
None of those. MEGA all the way. It’s the only open-source cloud, the only one with end-to-end security, the only one with Linux support, and the only one offering 20GB of free storage.
Why is Onedrive in "ace" tier and Google Drive is "trash"? What was the reasoning behind this? They're not that different.
Neither of them are trash, but apparently it made you click on the video, leave a comment, but not watch the video 🤷♂️
@Pete Matheson I always watch your content. However in the thumbnail Drive is in the trash column. I didn't see how the video addressed it, which is why I asked.
one thing that wasn't mentioned... My files are encrypted on my windows 10 machine. Google Drive and iDrive don't support uploading encrypted files, which is a pain.
Heads up - Google Drive no longer has an unlimited option!!!
Yeah I need to look into this. Supposedly their enterprise unlimited plans are not unlimited!
onedrive can't even tell how to manage photos, and is the main reason why people choose cloud in the first place, onedrive also fails misserably when you try to upload big files, i remember losing a job project thanks to onedrive taking over half a day to sync a file
i remember back when i thought idrive was icloud 😆
Kinda confusing in name eh!
@@PeteMatheson yup!
0:02 I thought that's MrWhosTheBoss by that intro XD
After listening to a multitude of yak-yak from a half dozen or more of talking heading, regarding this subject matter, you sir were the most pragmatic and communicative of all. Thank you for this very well rounded and forthright overview of the online, external hard drive landscape! Based on speed, I'm going to go with Google drive until price tells me something different!
Thank you very much! Really appreciated, a lot of work goes into each of these videos! 👍🏼
I’ve been using the unlimited Dropbox for 3 years already, it’s the best ever! At first ive been using it by my own, but couple of my buddies loved it so now I share it with them! I’m having almost 100TB of data there, it’s easy to access on every device I have, and sync process is so smooth! Cheers from Japan, great video!
Thanks man! Damn, 100TB of Data, nice work! haha
Can you see your friend backups? I want to share my account to lower the cost too
@@TripleMachine No, its 1000% seperate. On the business account u can get access to 3 accounts. if u share it with a friend to split the bill sort of speak, under-no-circumstances, can 1 account see the 2nd account at all... (UNLESS) you share and SYNC a file TOGETHER For both accounts, then whatever u put INTO that folder can be seen from BOTH accounts or all 3. (if you gave it those permissions) but other than that??? its 1000% entirely seperated. and not visible to any of the 3 accounts
Just to recap, I have tested this, tried, and have done this FULLY to make sure my stuff is secure from whom i share this account with
@@davidsjourney1770 How much data do you start with on the Advance plan with 3 users? and second questions, how easy is it to request more space? do they ask a bunch of questions?
I use OneDrive with 365 for all my files and such. I use Google for photos.
iDrive is $100 not $59
Idrive: 45 GB took 19 hrs. Original estimate for 350 GB was 24 hrs. My ISP plan upload speed is 5Mbps (other sources say I'm supposed to get 10Mbps) 5Mbs is equal to 2.25GB per hour. I would have been a lot more selective and batched the files.
Dropbox has been around for a while still have my acct from the 2 year free trials if you bought a samsung
Okay, so I'm a university students and whenever I wanna do work with my group matesx it's always hard to transfer files, photos and videos with them. I thought why not use a cloud storage and decided to try out drop box. But, the problem here is that most of my group mates can't afford a plan for a cloud storage and when using drop box, it uses everyone's storage instead of mine alone. So, do you know any cloud storages or a software of some kind that when you share a folder, it will consume the owner's storage and not everyone's (like drop box) or whoever posted the new file (like Google drive).
pcloud does that
OneDrive is the worst out of all of them.
why
Lol. No. Onedrive is actually the best.
I logged in another pc with my Microsoft account and now my files are all on it from one drive never use that trash
What about MEGA?
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Ah, yes. AVG, one od the best malware downloading software available on the market.
Google I believe no longer offers unlimited storage. I was on that package when I noticed alarm bells going off saying that I no longer had space with my Unlimited Google Workspace Drive. They switched to a pooled storage solution where each account you add to your Google Workspace you get a combined storage of 5TB per account you are paying for. So for example right now, I went from Unlimited Storage to 5TB then I added two more accounts to my Google Workspace and I now have 15TB of Google Workspace Storage. :-( I'm not happy about it but what can we do.. lol ..
You can still get unlimited but you have to upgrade to their new 'enterprise' plans, which have no public pricing - but you can see pricing and upgrade from within the Workspace admin subscriptions section.
@@PeteMatheson I moved it up from the enterprise standard to the enterprise plus. I'll give it a few moments to propagate. Crossing my fingers 🤞
wow, nice video
Thanks! 🙌🏼
Try to export your photos from Google....
Zero-trust, not zero-knowledge
I use Apple's icloud to sync a desktop folder across all my Macs, but I also have Dropbox and G-Drive syncing the same desktop folder, which all seems redundant, but I need Dropbox for sharing files with other business, and unfortunately DropBox doesn't store G-sheets or G-Docs so I also pay for G-Drive. What would you recommend for streamlining my cloud storage ?
I went with the pCloud 2TB lifetime a few years ago during its Black Friday sale. The main feature I like is it appears as an external HDD, making it easy to access from the command line, e.g. with robocopy, etc. It confuses Google Drive with it asking if I wish to back up my P drive. 😁 Originally I found it slow until they gave the option to move my data to a European data centre. It also has a useful web hosting feature where the files appear as a static html website or or let users users browse and choose what to download.
I also went with pCloud 2TB lifetime plan and will increase if I have to. Sounds amazing to me.
@@E-dirts You do realise that there is no such thing as a lifetime plan, don't you? Whatever the price you paid it will become unprofitable for pCloud in the long run. so they either will be bankrupt or they will kick you out of the plan.
@@VFPn96kQT ore torcher them until there quit
@@VFPn96kQT In fact it IS a lifetime plan. I suppose you know Appsumo? It's always the lifetime of the product. Also if you buy a Tomtom with lifetime updates.
So there are definitely lifetime plans, unless you misunderstand the meaning.
@@mandrael it's a life time plan for a lifetime of the company at best. You can't have a onetime payment that can cover something that has a constant cost indefinitely. At some point you will become a net loss for the company.
Why did Mega not make this list...?
97K subs isn't a small creator :-D
haha! I was NO way near 97k when I made this video!! Crazy what a few months can do
@@PeteMatheson Oh man, that's amazing success! First time I have come across your channel. Well done and thanks for the video. It helped me decide what storage to go for in the end.
With I drive, i dont want backup, I just want somewhere to store video tha i am going to edit or have already edited. Is this possible? Every thing says back up.
What about nextcloud and other self-hosted alternatives?
I'm on Iphone. Does anyone know if there is a way to quickly select multiple files (hundreds upon hundreds from dozens of folders) and download them all from an iphone?
Watched your video, mainly hoping to see the differences between “app functionality.” I did not really hear information that I wanted. I am presently looking for an alternative to Google one storage only not syncing. I have an Apple phone so I recently subscribed to iCloud only to find out that they do not even have a functional app so I’m going to cancel that. I am very satisfied with the Google Drive app and I’m looking for something that is similar and think I’m going to try out Dropbox. If you have any additional information or comments, that would be appreciated, thank you very much for your great work.
From a phone app perspective, I'd usually recommend Google or Apple, particulaly if you're on iPhone.
Otherwise yep something like Dropbox would be worth a try, they've been around for a long time and have had a while to really make their app shine!
Pete, excellent review. One question, I do have a couple of Linux boxes on my network and I didn't see Linux listed for any of these services. Can you expand on if Linux operates well on these services? Thanks
Thanks, concise. But why didn't you also do a comparison chart for 'zero knowledge' and UBT? I am doing screenshots as I am visually-oriented.
could you go over how they handle multiple users saving to the same file? kinda like oedrive allows multiple people to edit a excel document at the same time.
So these services will keep the data for only 180 days?
Dropbox will keep backups for up to 180 days - they'll all keep your data forever as long as you don't delete it!
Nice video but why do you accept an AVG sponsorship even though in you antivirus tier list you did not put them up high?
Because people like AVG help me continue to make all of these videos for everyone to watch for free 👍🏼
Because , money
What if I need only a cloud based backup of the family media archive (photos and videos) from my home NAS/private cloud?
How about AWS S3 own setup, using e.g. Glacier service, Retention Polices, etc. I mean I don't really need to be able to watch or play anything from it. Just an external, physically separated backup of most important stuff (3-2-1 principle).
To have online access to photos & videos I will use home NAS.
one concern of mine is eg if you take a 100gigs plan of Google drive. If it gets maxed out you can't opt out for same plan but take next ie 200gigs. Is there any bypass?
No Mega?????
Tbh, as an Apple user, iCloud is SO bad. It's not a delocalized storage solution, it's only mirroring. You can't have some data on the cloud without having them on cloud, which seems crazy to me. That's literally the point of using cloud...
edu / enterprise version will be diff esp. the max single file size
Nah. Onedrive not resumable
What about Mega?
Very helpful. I can make my decision now
What happens if you lose your yubi key? Can you still recover the access to your data?
Always buy 2 so you have one as a backup 👍🏼
@@PeteMatheson ah, gotcha
Opinion of Tera Box??? Thanks for this review.
Don't use it. It's China based
Is Google Drive slow for you as well? When I create a large file (video) in my Google Drive (mac) I have to wait for the file to be synced to cloud first, only then I can open it. It drives me crazy. (Stream option selected)
iCloud >>>
Sync has huge problem with the app - it's just not syncing. Trash.
I feel like when you look at pricing you should also look the amount of users. Some companies charge a lot per user added to an account.
iDrive does not allow you to synchronize data from an external drive, so it makes no sense.
What about hightail they have unlimited storage for about 12 bucks a month
OneDrive does offer up to 1TB of extra storage so you can get up to 2TB for a single user
If I will buy idrive plan will there any limit of file link expire or it will be for lifetime until I will not delete the file from my idrive, please reply it’s urgent
Idrive is not cheap anymore
How did you Skip Proton Drive and the likes?
Sync is great for mobile users who despise iCloud.
is anyone going to talk about how terrible it is that with google drive, it takes up storage with your emails?? its bonkerzzz do other ones do this?
Onedrive have an encrypted folder
I have the Apple iCloud 2TB family plan for $9.99, four lines. Then I recently added Google 100G service for $9.99.
iDrive has no file size limit and it actually is a data backup system.
If I will buy idrive plan will there any limit of file link expire or it will be for lifetime until I will not delete the file from my idrive, please reply it’s urgent
Correction, iCloud will let you upload only 10GB files limitation
How can you automatically backup the cloud data?
one point i believe you miss out is some providers have life time plans, one pay boom thats it, icrease the value significantly for some options and is a true game changer
Very true! I did mention that in my previous reviews but it made the videos too long to explain so decided to cut that part this year. But very valid point!
@Pete Matheson Then your video is useless, why even bother releasing without that important point.
Dropbox is the slowest upload speed, this is 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
He is so cute! That Humpty Dumpty head gets me every time.
I use 200GB Google drive just for photos backup. Also, Ofice 365 1TB for work
I was with ONEDRIVE and created additional email account and shared other accounts to my self, so I ended up 6TB of storage but ran into issues backing my music & video files - it did not like them, so cancelled with them and now trying IDrive. I notice some of my Japanese music gone off Google Drive (maybe copy right issue in UK - can only play the music via UA-cam Music as restricted on Spotify to Japan accounts only for example and could only purchase songs via Itunes).
Anyway, for £6.73 for the first year and 5TB of storage, that a great solution for me at the moment :)
PS: I also use BackBlaze to back up everything, just encase a HDD fails or OS gets corrupted which has happened and steam had not backed up any of my saved games files - backblaze to the rescue.
Can you share more about the problem of using 6TB of OneDrive from Office365 Family?
@@nguyenhuuminh180 I had purchased loads of songs off Google Play music and onedrive won't allow me to back them up, basically. They seem to be strict on copyright stuff.
idrive is useless on Linux.
Reasons I chose iDrive: (1) They do not delete your files from the backup if you delete them off your computer. Other services do! Only you can delete the files. (2) They don't care how many devices are on one subscription. I have five computers, 2 phones and an iPad all on one account. So, I can access any of the files from any of my devices. This has proven to be real handy when my older iMac died. I just went online and downloaded the files I needed from that computer's backups. (3) If you need to download a ton of files, they will send them to you on a disc or thumbdrive or something. I downloaded whole folders of documents and it wasn't unreasonably slow.
Hey, so he mentioned in the video that maximum upload for a file was 10Gb for Idrive? What does that mean? Like for example if i wanted to upload a folder on my pc with games that has like 50GB for the game, it wont upload to the idrive?
Hi, can you tell me when you download pics and videos from idrive , does it have the proper date, time and year or does it change? I want a storage that when I download my photos they keep the original date , time and year.
What do u think about proton drive?
How would you expect the upload and download speeds to change with Gigabit Google Fiber internet? I just ran a few random speed tests and had 400 - 900 Mbps from different test sites.
If website offer only 40Mbps transfer you will not get faster transfer If you have anything more than 40Mbps, most websites are limited to 100Mbps, you need something like max 15Mbps to watch highest possible quality on UA-cam, and also checking internet speed with sites like speed test doesn't mean anything because you just connect to your ISP servers that have highest priority in internet traffic, for example sometimes ISP have a separate Highway for site like speed test and offload road for normal websites, this is called QoS - Quality of Service
Didn’t see Verizon cloud on here, what are your thoughts on that one?
Hey Pete Link re Yubi keys please
Hey Pat! Great to see you here :)
Link added to the description and here too: geni.us/YUBIKEY
Bro how to use clouds storages
For me , pcloud and sync works the best ....
I found Icloud to be really buggy
Wondering if the table behind you bows under the weight of the monitor? Or do you have a upright support in the middle of the desk,?
Never had any issue with my desk bowing under the weight of my monitors. It is an Ergodesk though
@@PeteMatheson nice! I thought it was a IKEA one that people mod with IKEA drawers to each side
Does pcloud work with plex
what do you think about Backblaze?
Which of them has linux client? pCloud has, I use it. What about others?
Fr google drive > onedrive for windows/android users
Just recently found your channel, great advice.
Welcome!
thank you
What about aruba drive?
Great video! Skipped the bs and went straight into the facts
I'm on a Mac. I know it's not directly related to the topic here but Mail Drop is the greatest iCloud feature. It save me a lot of "cloud management" given I can just email large files to clients.
iCloud is trash just as it's maker is
Man these prices are salty if you are solo user and have 10TB+ of data and live in nordic countries. I've tried backblaze and crashplan but their nearest servers are in netherlands so my uploadspeed peaks at 3megabits/ps, not megabytes... megabits/ps.