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0 pointskayoone8y ago0 comments

not only Apple and Google, compared to Office365 for $99 per year which includes 1TB Onedrive + full Office for up to 5 users, i don't see how dropbox is worth it nowadays

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tinus_hn8y ago

At least for the OneDrive for Business offering, it’s easy for them to offer 1tb of storage since you’re never going to be able to be use it anyway, the sync client will crash and burn long before you get near that.

It is not in the same league as Dropbox.

Elepsis8y ago

The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts.

Also, it's likely that your past experience is with the old OneDrive for Business client. Last year the normal OneDrive client learned to sync OneDrive for Business data, and reliability and performance improved quite a bit.

(I worked on OneDrive until last summer, but I don't currently work at Microsoft.)

tinus_hn8y ago

No, my experience is with the ‘modern’ client. It is less terrible than the old one but still unreliable.

CodeWriter238y ago

Did they remove the hard limit of 20,000 files per OneDrive? Because if not, one would need to average 50MB per file to fill the 1TB up.

kayooneOP8y ago

OneDrive is no Dropbox (which i use aswell in its free form for sharing) but it works fine for me for general sync and storage.

ferdbold8y ago

Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)

vanous8y ago

What sync do you use on Linux then? I am moving over from the Goog to mega. Full Linux support, 50GB, TNO.

ferdbold8y ago

I use Dropbox, but I might switch to Mega in the near future. The better storage capacity and leaner UI speaks to me. I haven't had any issues with the sync client so far either, though I've only tried it on Windows.

askvictor8y ago

Insync is one option (you do have to pay though) that works much like Google's client; there are other command line options too.

rodgerd8y ago

I'm sure not having clients on < 5% of the desktop market will cause Microsoft to become non-viable any day now.

rangibaby8y ago

I think it is this kind of attitude that made them miss the boat on mobile

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whipoodle8y ago

It’s so bad. My work just switched to Google from Dropbox and it performs much worse. Also everything about the client and the product just screams that Google doesn’t give a crap about it.

distances8y ago

Yes, Google Drive is the butt of many jokes in our company too. The main reason we're using it is because Dropbox is prohibitively expensive.

slededit8y ago

To be pedantic you mean the POSIX userland. Office (including its OneDrive integration) does ship on Linux, albeit under the Android userland which doesn't help you if you want to run Ubuntu.

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tinus_hn8y ago

It is not in the same league as Dropbox.

Elepsis8y ago

The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts.

(I worked on OneDrive until last summer, but I don't currently work at Microsoft.)

tinus_hn8y ago

No, my experience is with the ‘modern’ client. It is less terrible than the old one but still unreliable.

CodeWriter238y ago

Did they remove the hard limit of 20,000 files per OneDrive? Because if not, one would need to average 50MB per file to fill the 1TB up.

kayooneOP8y ago

OneDrive is no Dropbox (which i use aswell in its free form for sharing) but it works fine for me for general sync and storage.

ferdbold8y ago

Well they have me because Google Sync doesn't seem to work half of the time and/or takes forever to sync on all of my devices, and OneDrive and iCloud don't have clients on Linux (really?)

vanous8y ago

What sync do you use on Linux then? I am moving over from the Goog to mega. Full Linux support, 50GB, TNO.

ferdbold8y ago

askvictor8y ago

Insync is one option (you do have to pay though) that works much like Google's client; there are other command line options too.

rodgerd8y ago

I'm sure not having clients on < 5% of the desktop market will cause Microsoft to become non-viable any day now.

rangibaby8y ago

I think it is this kind of attitude that made them miss the boat on mobile

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whipoodle8y ago

It’s so bad. My work just switched to Google from Dropbox and it performs much worse. Also everything about the client and the product just screams that Google doesn’t give a crap about it.

distances8y ago

Yes, Google Drive is the butt of many jokes in our company too. The main reason we're using it is because Dropbox is prohibitively expensive.

slededit8y ago

To be pedantic you mean the POSIX userland. Office (including its OneDrive integration) does ship on Linux, albeit under the Android userland which doesn't help you if you want to run Ubuntu.

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