At the end of the day none of them really cut it for me completely. Once you go above the 5GB free, SugarSync and Dropbox do become expensive while Google Drive is a lot more affordable at least now when it is in its introductory period. Like Dropbox when you share a file it dispatches a web link and not the actual document. I don’t have to drag and drop anything into a separate folder. I can select which folders or files on my computer I want to sync to the cloud. SugarSync is very similar to both of these services above with a Carbonite like feature. It seems like Google each day becomes more like Microsoft. I do find it irritating that everything with Google Drive is tied to my Gmail when most of my uses for this capability would be tied to my work email address. Dropbox on the other hand will email someone a link to your file and asks the recipient to become a Dropbox subscriber as well which is a pain (and also how I discovered Dropbox when someone shared a file with me). The Google Drive mobile app is slick and easy to use (no surprise) and you can retrieve a document from your Google Drive and email it as if it were resident on your mobile device which is pretty nice. Google Docs are also now a part of Google Drive and any documents created or shared using Google Docs are a part of this offering. You can now access it via a mobile device or a web browser on another machine.
Any files or folders you drag and drop into this folder gets synced up to the “cloud”. They both offer a folder on your desktop called “Google Drive” or “Dropbox”. The newly introduced Google Drive is very similar to Dropbox. Once I find it, I can email it or share it.
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As for accessing it via my Android mobile app, it works but my only peeve is that I have to navigate the directory structure of my netbook on the phone to find a file. At a little more than $50 per year per machine, Carbonite does a good job of securing your data at the price of a Starbucks latte each month. I did have a laptop fail on me once and thanks to Carbonite I was able to restore all my documents to my new netbook over the course of a weekend. It is not an instant sync like some of the offerings, but I do see it regularly run to sync all my changed or new documents. It surveys your machine at certain time periods and then does a mass upload of files and documents that have changed or are new. Carbonite however is like the “batch process” of olden days. Carbonite also offers a mobile app to access this data, albeit for one user login and therefore one machine. For the last 2-3 years at work, we have been using Carbonite on critical laptops and servers to backup important data. People never worry about backups until it is too late and your laptop crashes and you lose precious data.
There are many products and services out there offering buzz words like backing up, and “syncing” to the omnipresent “cloud”.
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