Which Cloud Storage Provider?

MarkLP

MarkLP

MarkLP

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Who do you use for your cloud storage? I'm going round in circles trying to find the best option.

Criteria -

No Bandwidth Restriction (or atleast something that maxes my connection, tried Hubic and it limits upload to 10MB)
A sync/Storage Folder on the PC (Amazon Cloud doesn't seem to do this)
Price (The Hubic and Amazon prices are within budget for me but Dropbox, Google Drive seem to be slightly higher costs)
Security - I'm sure most must all use high encryption?
Size - I'd like 500GB minimum really, I've got to go through old hard drives and move all my old photos across

I did see there was some software which made a Sync Folder for use with Amazon Cloud but not sure how well this works, anyone have any experience of using this?
 
Dropbox would be my go to recommendation. It's nor horrifically priced but it depends on what you want to spend on it. You get a good folder sync though with Dropbox.
 
Dropbox is £6.58 for 1TB, which is 50p more than the raw cost of Azure Cool Blob storage - to put it in perspective. For that 50p you aren't charged for transfer, you aren't charged extra for support, and you get high quality cross-platform apps.

I'd say there's a lower limit to how cheap this product can be done for, and Dropbox aren't far above it.
 
Looked into Dropbox again. It does seem reasonable. Just a shame you can't password protect a folder from within Dropbox itself. Boxcryptor doesn't look that easy to use.
 
I haven't benchmarked the upload speed on Dropbox but it does seem reasonably fast compared to Hubic.

I've come across another stumbling block though, I'd like to be able to password protect/lock certain folders which I don't seem to be able to do easily. I know there are 3rd party apps I can use but it isn't ideal for me.

I also looked into OwnCloud but didn't look particularly straight forward to setup and use. I'd probably go with Hubic or Amazon drive but the slow upload and no desktop sync folder put me off.
 
I just wanted to be able to lock certain folders, but it doesn't look like any cloud service offers this.

Just on another note I've looked into Amazon Drive again and it now looks like they offer a Sync folder, this must have been recently implemented as they definitely didn't offer it a few weeks ago?
 
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