The BEST Cloud Storage in 2024? Dropbox vs Google Drive vs iDrive vs Sync vs pCloud vs OneDrive
In this video, I’m comparing 7 of the top cloud storage services: iDrive, OneDrive, Sync.com, pCloud, Google Drive, DropBox and iCloud, and putting them up against each other in the following categories: price, features, speed, security, and backup and retention. I’ve listed some really good discounts down below so, if you’re looking for a Cloud Storage option, then there are some great choices right here…
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00:29 Pricing
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–SMPOST–Trying to navigate the minefield of cloud storage? Then this video is for you!
You can also zip and password your files before you upload it.
Nah. Onedrive not resumable
Didn’t see Verizon cloud on here, what are your thoughts on that one?
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…
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
Just recently found your channel, great advice.
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 dropped iDrive 3 months ago when I discovered they had stopped backing up my files and had even deactivated my account. Why? Because I had unchecked the "auto-renenal" option. I prefer to pay manually, I don’t want my bank account automatically deducted on an annual basis. IDrive doesn’t tell you this, and yet, they make "auto-renewal" an option in your online account.
iDrive is $100 not $59
iDrive does not allow you to synchronize data from an external drive, so it makes no sense.
How can you automatically backup the cloud data?
What about hightail they have unlimited storage for about 12 bucks a month
Idrive is not cheap anymore
Dropbox has been around for a while still have my acct from the 2 year free trials if you bought a samsung
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.
What about aruba drive?
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.
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.
Sync is great for mobile users who despise iCloud.
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
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.
Bro how to use clouds storages
How did you Skip Proton Drive and the likes?
Great summary with zero BS
AVG got scammy in recent years. I kept calling them to cancel my service but they kept charging me. I finally had to contact my bank to block them.
Onedrive gived you 1TB, then another 7 TB to give away for free to family/friends. Onedrive is WAAAY above the others when it come to price.
Also Onedrive ( Microsoft, NEVER have been hacked in a way that compromised their users.
Is AVG still scamming people?! 😂😂😂
It’s been a while since Isaw that symbol. 😅
Thanks for the video though. 👍
0:02 I thought that’s MrWhosTheBoss by that intro XD
beware with caution I cloud will manage yo files like a cluts if u make music vid editing move with caution I swipe all my wavs and made them from mb to kb and corrupted even zip maybe I was using it wrong but my homie told me wen iCloud is getting full it purges big files if u apple and use google drive zip/compress everything I still cry sometimes thinking about lost songs and vids that sh*tcloud threw away
OneDrive is the worst out of all of them.
Amazing video! Thank you 🙂
A few observations regarding OneDrive. i) The pricing in your video is for the whole of Microsoft 365, not just OneDrive. ii) The 30 day retention you mention is for files that have been deleted. Versions of current files are kept for much longer (about 6 months, I think). iii) It has the ability for password protected shared folders. As far as I know, the others don’t. iv) The file naming rules are different from Windows, so beware if you have some machine named content with odd characters or very long names (e.g. files from a WordPress or Joomla site). I got caught out with this a few years ago when I migrated from Google Drive.
OneDrive does offer up to 1TB of extra storage so you can get up to 2TB for a single user
Sponsored by AVG… enough said
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’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?
No Mega?????
personally the web interface of these sites is incredibly important for me, and i really love google docs for what i need it for, word is just too messy and a lot of alternatives just have really outdated feeling interfaces, so i use google drive and then use an uploaded 3rd party encrypted vault for stuff like 2fa backup codes and financial data
You forgot about Telegram Cloud. It’s free and unlimited
I’ve been using Drop Box for a few years now and love it and haven’t stop using it.
All this encryption bullcrap services.. Just provide me a cheap, reliable storage and I encrypt my own data.
idrive is useless on Linux.
Ive been using Google photos and drive since it came out. Would be hard migrating to another service. Especially when now i have my partner and kids all have back ups connected to my google one.
Onedrive have an encrypted folder
Google and Drop Box is king !! nothing else matters
So these services will keep the data for only 180 days?
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?
waste of a video
I use OneDrive with 365 for all my files and such. I use Google for photos.
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?