)What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
-
Betamax001
- Next-Gen
- Posts: 1356
- Joined: Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:47 pm
- Location: United States
Re: What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
Dropbox is great! I use it to share files with my cousin or sister really easily. A great replacement for the sharing folders that used to be in Windows Live Messenger. They may still be there, but not in the OS X version. The OS X version sucks balls. It's like Coleco Donkey Kong on the 2600 IMO. (if you get what i'm saying )
)NES, SNES, PS1, N64, DC, PS2, GCN, Wii, PS3, 360, GB, GBC, GBA, GBA SP, PSP 3000, and 3DS XL
PSN ID: SaturnXMKII
Steam ID: betamax001
PSN ID: SaturnXMKII
Steam ID: betamax001
Re: What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
If you're a Windows user and if you have various cloud services already such as Amazon Cloud, SkyDrive, your own FTP share, Google Docs -- then go back and look at Gladinet Cloud Desktop because version 3 now does more than some of the above comments indicate (they were reviewing version 2). I just became acquainted with it at version 3 and it's very nice. I would not say it's better or worse than Dropbox, it does different things. Main thing for me is Gladinet lets me integrate the various cloud services I have all over the place. And gives me a Windows Explorer view to manage them. I don't even neeed Dropbox for my current purposes, but I'm not a real sync demon, and I think that's the main difference.
Someone should also mention SugarSync in this discussion (I've not used it).
Someone should also mention SugarSync in this discussion (I've not used it).
Re: What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
SugarSync was mentioned in the thread already 
I will try Gladinet again. I liked it when it just worked, but it was giving me a lot of hassle properly integrating with Skydrive and Google Docs so I stopped using it. If the new version works seamlessly, I will still use Dropbox more, but I will be really glad to have Gladinet as well (with access to the free storage services Skydrive and Google Docs, it is easy access to over 20 GBs of cloud storage).
Ivo.
I will try Gladinet again. I liked it when it just worked, but it was giving me a lot of hassle properly integrating with Skydrive and Google Docs so I stopped using it. If the new version works seamlessly, I will still use Dropbox more, but I will be really glad to have Gladinet as well (with access to the free storage services Skydrive and Google Docs, it is easy access to over 20 GBs of cloud storage).
Ivo.
Re: What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
Don't leave out new, free, Amazon Cloud 5GB! I have about 37GB between these three free services. Plus others.
In Gladinet, Google Docs for some reason even merits a special button in the Mirrored Backup interface to enable some backup to another service. I probably won't use it much since I'm not really a Google fan. But it would simplify sync for some people who want to copy their Google Docs elsewhere.
I suspect if one expects to sync each service to one another, or to be massively changing the content of your local folder often and spewing it into the cloud -- that Gladinet will be hard to impress you because the free level limits sync (I have the Pro version). But I want a few Office documents or config files to follow me wherever I am, without a USB drive, and I want a few encrypted files to be redundantly backed up. Gladinet is capable of this. Not to dis Dropbox, but it only connects to Dropbox, not to any of my other storage. Not redundant enough for me.
In Gladinet, Google Docs for some reason even merits a special button in the Mirrored Backup interface to enable some backup to another service. I probably won't use it much since I'm not really a Google fan. But it would simplify sync for some people who want to copy their Google Docs elsewhere.
I suspect if one expects to sync each service to one another, or to be massively changing the content of your local folder often and spewing it into the cloud -- that Gladinet will be hard to impress you because the free level limits sync (I have the Pro version). But I want a few Office documents or config files to follow me wherever I am, without a USB drive, and I want a few encrypted files to be redundantly backed up. Gladinet is capable of this. Not to dis Dropbox, but it only connects to Dropbox, not to any of my other storage. Not redundant enough for me.
Re: What you think of Dropbox, Gladinet etc. (cloud storage)
Gladinet does not work at all on Windows 7 64 bit with Amazon Cloud Drive. I've tried repeatedly with my Amazon account and neither inbound nor outbound files are recognized and synced by Gladinet. I use Dropbox religiously in my full time IT job and Gladinet is a joke in comparison. Not quality software. They need to fix a lot before I'll consider it.