Which Cloud Storage Solution?

lumencreative · 24 Feb 2015 at 21:50

Just after some thoughts really.

Does anyone here use iCloud Drive instead of the likes of OneDrive or Dropbox?

Basically, we bought a Synology NAS enclosure but it's not really working as well as I'd hoped, and I tend to use my 1TB USB Hard Drive more, which unfortunately, I keep leaving connected to my work PC and forgetting to bring home. So, we've decided to look at cloud storage.

I know most of the world at least know about Dropbox but is it really the best option? At home and our design office we use Macs. I have an iPad and an iPhone. At my 'employment' I have a Windows 7 PC. As I mostly use Apple, I thought iCloud Drive would be ideal but it's quite expensive.

Dropbox Pro is £7.99 a month and then there's OneDrive. We already use Office365 for email so OneDrive is included in the cost.

We are basically looking for something to use as a central repository for our business files and the ability to share files/folders with customers who may not already be registered.

Is this possible with OneDrive or Dropbox? I don't think it is with iCloud Drive.

Any thoughts?

MeFox · 25 Feb 2015 at 13:32

www.mega.co.nz or google drive but no idea if G will work as a could share

marc2003 · 25 Feb 2015 at 13:41

sounds like onedrive would be the best bet considering you already use office365. you should see options to share files when logged in through a browser.

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welshdragon · 25 Feb 2015 at 14:04

Given the tight integration with Office, not to mention you probably have quite a healthy allowance with your 365 subscription I would say OneDrive is your best bet.

What problems are you having with your Synology nas? You can set it up to backup to your OneDrive to give you that extra bit of protection.

lumencreative · 25 Feb 2015 at 19:13

welshdragon said:
Given the tight integration with Office, not to mention you probably have quite a healthy allowance with your 365 subscription I would say OneDrive is your best bet.

What problems are you having with your Synology nas? You can set it up to backup to your OneDrive to give you that extra bit of protection.

Thanks everyone for the comments. It's not so much that I'm having problems with the Synology NAS, it's more that it doesn't allow for sharing files/folders with people without an account. For example, on Dropbox, I know you can email someone a link to a file and they can download it. I'm not sure that's possible with the Synology.

It's also down to cost to some degree. We've got £600 worth of kit sitting here not doing quite what we want and if/when drives fail, we have to pay for replacements, so maybe a subscription service where there are numerous backup procedures in place might be best.

I guess, ultimately, we need to decide whether it's worth keeping the Synology or flogging it and going all cloud based.