The BEST Cloud Storage in 2024? Dropbox vs Google Drive vs iDrive vs Sync vs pCloud vs OneDrive

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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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@gwine9087 Год назад

Another thing to keep in mind, pick one that will be around, in the future.

@Ian-gf8id Год назад

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.

@PeteMatheson Год назад

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 👀

@shudoy9386 Год назад

@@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?

@jisnukalita Год назад

I have Microsoft 365 Family, which comes with 1TB of storage for each user. So far, everything has gone swimmingly (4 years of experience).

@sulogno Год назад

Would you recommend Microsoft 365 over iCloud especially for storing lot of photos from iPhone and iPad?

@lnxguit Год назад

@@sulogno if you're really in the Apple universe, I would suggest using iCloud

@Krishnendulaha 11 месяцев назад

@@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

@tjrjcj 10 месяцев назад

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

@poonambagade3715 9 месяцев назад

Very helpful. I can make my decision now

@user-vu7iq4bm2u 7 месяцев назад

Amazing video! Thank you :)

@MrFirstdance2000 Год назад

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!

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Thank you very much! Really appreciated, a lot of work goes into each of these videos! 👍🏼

@aidan8583 6 месяцев назад

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

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Kindly Sponsored by AVG 🛒 Get AVG Home and Business products here: geni.us/AVG-DEALS Are you thinking of switching from Google Drive or iCloud? If so, which one tickles your fancy?

@hermes8258 Год назад

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.

@graytonw5238 Год назад

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.

@PeteMatheson Год назад

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!

@willseth8180 Год назад

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.

@joepisciottajr Год назад

I have the Apple iCloud 2TB family plan for $9.99, four lines. Then I recently added Google 100G service for $9.99.

@anonymous-3695 Год назад

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.

@mandrael 11 месяцев назад

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.

@user-bh4lk5we9t 10 месяцев назад

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.

@errole 11 месяцев назад

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.

@theirisheditor Год назад

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 Год назад

I also went with pCloud 2TB lifetime plan and will increase if I have to. Sounds amazing to me.

@VFPn96kQT Год назад

@@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.

@ttonin33 11 месяцев назад

@@VFPn96kQT ore torcher them until there quit

@mandrael 10 месяцев назад

@@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.

@VFPn96kQT 10 месяцев назад

@@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.

@ericr2zz 11 месяцев назад

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.

@ilkoallexandroff Год назад

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!

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Thanks man! Damn, 100TB of Data, nice work! haha

@TripleMachine Год назад

Can you see your friend backups? I want to share my account to lower the cost too

@davidsjourney1770 Год назад

@@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 Год назад

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

@TripleMachine Год назад

@@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?

@ashfakqkhan4764 Год назад

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

@azaty 9 месяцев назад

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)

@albertdipadova5294 2 месяца назад

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 ?

@bekhele Год назад

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

@PeteMatheson Год назад

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!

@deltaechomusicnh555 Год назад

@Pete Matheson Then your video is useless, why even bother releasing without that important point.

@riggs2065 14 часов назад

Just recently found your channel, great advice.

@PeteMatheson 12 минут назад

Welcome!

@mrgregw Год назад

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.

@Just-For-Fun-Games Год назад

What about nextcloud and other self-hosted alternatives?

@Ziplock9000 6 месяцев назад

Great summary with zero BS

@formerunsecretarygeneralba9536 11 месяцев назад

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).

@kazstiel2y5 7 месяцев назад

pcloud does that

@ChildrensGiftMinistry Год назад

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.

@PeteMatheson Год назад

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!

@john4kc Год назад

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.

@Matelight_IT 3 месяца назад

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 RU-vid, 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

@nickhildabridle1612 Год назад

Opinion of Tera Box??? Thanks for this review.

@Nanamiogawa Год назад

Don't use it. It's China based

@pyrusslayer8643 Год назад

What do u think about proton drive?

@jmejiacivil 10 месяцев назад

the best bro!

@justintemp Год назад

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,?

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Never had any issue with my desk bowing under the weight of my monitors. It is an Ergodesk though

@justintemp Год назад

@@PeteMatheson nice! I thought it was a IKEA one that people mod with IKEA drawers to each side

@Vung-KTVHCM 9 месяцев назад

I use 200GB Google drive just for photos backup. Also, Ofice 365 1TB for work

@scrapgamingx1942 Год назад

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)

@deenphoenix 11 месяцев назад

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.

@scrapgamingx1942 11 месяцев назад

.. 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

@David-yq6un 10 месяцев назад

Try to export the pictures... its a nightmare

@scrapgamingx1942 10 месяцев назад

@@David-yq6un I've had no issues have you had issues?

@GGMan Год назад

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 RU-vid 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 Год назад

Can you share more about the problem of using 6TB of OneDrive from Office365 Family?

@GGMan Год назад

@@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.

@Meandmydog1 Год назад

iDrive has no file size limit and it actually is a data backup system.

@madisonave64 10 месяцев назад

what do you think about Backblaze?

@here2thrive 3 месяца назад

Didn’t see Verizon cloud on here, what are your thoughts on that one?

@VladLOnFIRE 9 месяцев назад

thank you

@baby333 2 месяца назад

0:02 I thought that's MrWhosTheBoss by that intro XD

@yevhenbryukhov Месяц назад

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.

@ethanparejo1187 Год назад

wow, nice video

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Thanks! 🙌🏼

@user-kx5ks5fn4x Год назад

Which of them has linux client? pCloud has, I use it. What about others?

@89rjw Год назад

Was this video louder then your other ones? I'd have liked a "This is when a NAS would make more sense financially" comparison. E.g. my SO and me have 5 computers between us and using time machine for the macs and macrium for the pcs is crucial for us to make sure we can continue working without data-loss, as soon as a replacement part or replacement machine arrives or sometimes even before that, just in case of hardware failure on those machines. (For her as a teacher, it's crucial to not loose all her prepared courses and tests which can rack up quite the volume. For me as a developer it's mostly the uninterrupted continuation of work in case of hardware failures, since most of the crucial data is either on git repos or in case of documentation and project management data on other SaaS services). What many people also seem to not know is that in the Office365 family subscription, every member gets 1TB of cloud storage, which is more then enough for most use cases. And I'd wager a guess, that a ton of people have an office365 subscription. If you ever do a "Cloud storage vs NAS - What's the best fit for you?" video, could you also try to find out why HDD drives are seemingly not getting cheaper nowadays? Is it really just that all the R&D is in SSDs and not HDDs?

@KyleWarner-mo8oi 9 дней назад

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.

@DrSus-hp7yx 9 месяцев назад

Which one would you choose overall?

@kitakitsinc Год назад

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 ..

@PeteMatheson Год назад

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.

@kitakitsinc Год назад

@@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 🤞

@fdjolo 8 месяцев назад

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?

@GGMan Год назад

Took up the deal for IDrive 😁

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Let me know what you think 😊

@synen Год назад

Does iDrive have Linux support?

@justintemp Год назад

What happens if you lose your yubi key? Can you still recover the access to your data?

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Always buy 2 so you have one as a backup 👍🏼

@justintemp Год назад

@@PeteMatheson ah, gotcha

@Tdg_Ralph Год назад

Great video! Skipped the bs and went straight into the facts

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Ah, yes. AVG, one od the best malware downloading software available on the market.

@JF-dc3xl Год назад

At 0:41, Google Drive 2 TB storage, but at 3:44 you mention a 5 TB online file limit? Am I misreading something? How can an online file storage limit exceed the total storage capacity? Thanks!

@justintemp Год назад

I think that's if you add more storage the max a single file can be is still 5TB

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Yep this. 👍🏼

@Physbook Год назад

edu / enterprise version will be diff esp. the max single file size

@brandon114321 2 месяца назад

Dropbox has been around for a while still have my acct from the 2 year free trials if you bought a samsung

@TruHopeWorship Год назад

Nice video but why do you accept an AVG sponsorship even though in you antivirus tier list you did not put them up high?

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Because people like AVG help me continue to make all of these videos for everyone to watch for free 👍🏼

@justintemp Год назад

Because , money

@zx9018 Год назад

I was going to reset my computer as well as all the files on it (for various reasons.) What would you recommend if I only needed storage for a few days to keep the handful of files I want to keep after the reset? Great video but im still on the fence

@TheSevonne Год назад

A thumb drive

@vladyslav135 Год назад

What about Mega?

@Georgevideocliper Год назад

For photos Google is best

@landonmckinley6250 Год назад

The Google suite in its entirety is a pretty solid deal. 2TB file storage across Drive, Gmail, and Photos can go a long way. The new VPN service is also very nice and easy to use. I’ve noticed that some other services require manual upload, but Drives desktop application does so in the background without any user input, much like OneDrive

@larafenercioglu4253 Год назад

hi, i can't upgrade my 200 GB account to 2TB :( how can I do that

@austinh7539 Год назад

Google Workplace is just so confusing and hard to navigate, you can't figure out which of their services are the cloud storage services and it just ends up taking more time than it's worth.

@NicolasSilvaVasault 2 месяца назад

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

@fyuckya505 8 месяцев назад

Does pcloud work with plex

@DrumBeatFactory Год назад

97K subs isn't a small creator :-D

@PeteMatheson Год назад

haha! I was NO way near 97k when I made this video!! Crazy what a few months can do

@DrumBeatFactory Год назад

@@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.

@charlesure4238 5 месяцев назад

So these services will keep the data for only 180 days?

@PeteMatheson 5 месяцев назад

Dropbox will keep backups for up to 180 days - they'll all keep your data forever as long as you don't delete it!

@TomBTerrific Год назад

Okay I m old with computer literacy. I can see the need for storage. I also get cloud storage. What i don’t get is I can buy an external 1TB for $50 and 4 TB for $100. Why would I pay monthly for storage? Seems in very little time you’re gonna pay for the external!

@ThePsho Год назад

I think a lot of people use cloud storage to supplement physical drives, not replace them. It's a matter of redundancy. You could buy an external drive, maybe 2-3. You could also set up a NAS or home server with multiple drives running a RAID (2+ drives that hold identical storage) with multiple backups. You could even store files on flash drives and hide them in various locations. However, now we're spending a lot more money. But, the main problem with physical storage is, they are always prone to complete failure. However unlikely, imagine something catastrophic. Fire, flood, earthquake, house falls into sink hole. Drives get destroyed, data is gone. Cloud storage is pretty close to fail safe. Some of that monthly cost is peace of mind. Also, cloud storage is a little more user friendly to the less-tech-savvy. My parents have iPhones, they back up to iCloud, and probably wouldn't if it weren't essentially built-in automatic. Bottom line, you ideally want both multiple physical backups and cloud backup.

@TomBTerrific 10 месяцев назад

@@ThePsho I understand things happen! I also understand the need to ensure we have reasonable safety measures in place. I also believe companies feed on paranoia. I’m soon to be 73. I bought my first home in 1974 for 10k. It wasn’t much. No garage, nothing fancy but the roof didn’t leak. Over the years I’ve had negative thing happen to me. Some times it was my fault and sometimes not. The death of my daughter was the only thing that was unrecoverable. I’ve been through earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding and such but never lost it all except in my first divorce.even then everything is replaceable. Just like Y2K tech’s seem to over state things. I have so much backup I can hardly find stuff. My bigger problem have been with having saved files that now I can’t open because programs keep evolving. Redundancy is a luxury not a necessity. Cash however is always needed.

@d.r.4565 9 месяцев назад

Mmmm dear Tom, the problem with external drives vs cloud storage are mainly 2; 1.- unless you carry the driver literally EVERYWHERE, you will not have access to your documents. Imagine your computer gets damaged and all you have is your mobile at the moment, and need access to those files. Problem #2 is that external storage tend to fail, and if your info is in there and out of the sudden gets damaged, or is stolen… bye bye Info. The latest trend is to use a NAS, more expensive, but safer somehow. It seems that the closest thing to our heart nowadays is our mobile. Anyway, I also admit that when it comes to choose 1 service… storage is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you’ll get.

@grandmafaye7643 7 месяцев назад

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.

@sa5410 6 месяцев назад

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?

@ekechi100 6 месяцев назад

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.

@thathappyrat Год назад

Why is Onedrive in "ace" tier and Google Drive is "trash"? What was the reasoning behind this? They're not that different.

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Neither of them are trash, but apparently it made you click on the video, leave a comment, but not watch the video 🤷‍♂️

@thathappyrat Год назад

@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.

@cemops8660 Год назад

i remember back when i thought idrive was icloud 😆

@PeteMatheson Год назад

Kinda confusing in name eh!

@cemops8660 Год назад

@@PeteMatheson yup!

@ThatBoiSimba 11 месяцев назад

Why did Mega not make this list...?

@JuanLopezmusica 10 месяцев назад

Correction, iCloud will let you upload only 10GB files limitation

@lorenzococcia8665 6 месяцев назад

What about aruba drive?

@David-yq6un 10 месяцев назад

Try to export your photos from Google....

@winnie.bloomin 7 месяцев назад

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?

@wotb9793 4 месяца назад

Bro how to use clouds storages

@Platoface 2 месяца назад

Sync is great for mobile users who despise iCloud.

@djsyrex 6 месяцев назад

What about hightail they have unlimited storage for about 12 bucks a month

@encryptionserver3843 Год назад

For me , pcloud and sync works the best ....

@foxandroses 3 месяца назад

iDrive is $100 not $59

@chuba1 Год назад

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.

@wibiyoutube6173 6 месяцев назад

Is AVG still scamming people?! 😂😂😂 It's been a while since Isaw that symbol. 😅 Thanks for the video though. 👍

@georgepliak 11 месяцев назад

Hi! Can you please tell me which one is easier to use? And most important im looking for upload folders,for example I want to upload my music but not as files,but as folder's, cause i have made folders with different kinds of music,so I don't want to upload my music file's as bulk but as folder's!! And im looking for something as much simple to use, cause i have tried Google drive,and i don't know how to upload my sms or contact's, and i couldn't find a way to upload folders, only to make folders and then upload the files inside them .

@mr.boniato6402 8 месяцев назад

Microsoft new 2023 guidelines now say that they can/will view and and share your personal data with 3rd parties. This includes Word 365, OneDrive and pretty much any service they have.