Monday, 23 March 2020

Onedrive is the best Cloud Storage

I had tried Google Drive, Dropbox and Sugarsync.

Dropbox is the most reliable but too little space.

Sugarsync used to be good but somehow I detected some unreliablilty.

I prefer Google drive and Onedrive because UMS supports both of them. We have virtually unlimited storage with them, I believe 1Terabyte.

Google drive does not offer as many featuers as Onedrive but it has one advantage over Onedrive in the UMS environment. Onedrive corporate does not allow us to share our files to the public., and worse, both Gdrive and Onedrive do not consider UMS students, as part of UMS, despite using UMS email addresses. This one weakness of Onedrive forced me to use Gdrive for courses.

For personal use, Onedrive is the best. It behaves like Mobile Phone cloud. It allows you to see the file names without storing the files. It also has the features to select which folders to be synced but not necessary when this space saving featuer is enabled. Just sync every folder and hard disk space usage is still low. I opened two Onedrive accounts.

With these two drive accounts, the amount of memory usage is still low compared to Gdrive that requires the same amount of RAM for each account. So, I just limit myself to just one account, despite not syncing any file on the local disk. Actually Gdrive always sync files that are not in folders, whereas Onedrive allows us to choose.





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