Is there an alternative to google drive that's recommended?
Edited by Chris Cosgrove, 17 December 2021 - 07:14 PM.
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Alternatives to Google Drive
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, Dec 16 2021 08:50 AM
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Posted 18 December 2021 - 07:42 PM
What is it you are wanting to do ? Back up your data, share documents, sync your computer with other devices ?
You can get up to 15GB of storage on Google for free but beyond that on-line (aka cloud storage) starts getting relatively expensive. It all depends on how much you want to store. The obvious alternative is Microsoft's One Drive but similar considerations apply there. Personally I use external drives, 2 x 2TB drives, each of which has a backup of my data on it, currently about 1750 GB on both. Another consideration of using cloud storage is 'How long does it take to get my data back ?'. I have moderately good internet, currently I get a download rate of about 5MB/sec. I leave it to you to do the calculation of how long it would take me to download nearly 2TB of data !
Sharing data and files, not something I do a great deal of except occasionally. You can use email, a network connection with the other computer and/or various commercial products to this.
Sync is not something I know very much about, except that it is possible but again it uses an internet connection.
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Posted 29 December 2021 - 11:17 AM
It depends on what you need to do, but many alternatives are there, like Onedrive, Azure blob , AWS S3, Sharepoint....etc
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Posted 08 April 2024 - 05:44 AM
Closed topic, no followup by OP, now a spam magnet.
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