Comments on: Google Drive vs DropBox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, Box

By: Graham Hoop

Graham Hoop — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:35:00 +0000

What about security implications of each service? What’s the track-record for each company? Are all of these hosted in the United States and therefore subject to the US Patriot Act? What kind of privacy guarantees exist? This sort of information is WAY more important than whether you’ll pay $2 or $5 per month.

By: TechBlerg

TechBlerg — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:30:00 +0000

Didn’t realize but ‘Existing Users’ includes anyone with a Hotmail account. Just upgraded to 25GB right now.

By: Silverwind2007

Silverwind2007 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:03:00 +0000

Sugarsync does

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:35:00 +0000

I’m also using sugarsync for those reasons but I hate the upload speed compared to Dropbox..
I never saw a performance comparison of all those clouds..

By: Pre86

Pre86 — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:42:00 +0000

Sugarsync allows you to actually sync your folders across all your devices. I find it to be much more convenient for people who organize their files into folders. Additionally, they have a similar “one folder” functionality as the others so I really don’t see much of a comparison unless you are looking at pricing plans, in which case Skydrive gives one of the best plans in terms of cost.

By: JPMALone

JPMALone — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:27:00 +0000

I prefer SugarSync to Dropbox, because it kills two birds… cloud backup + cloud drive. Dropbox only allows you to sync one folder (plus it’s subfolders), it looks like Google Drive is the same as Dropbox (i.e. everything is stored under your cloud folder). Haven’t tried Skybox

By: Brady

Brady — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:05:00 +0000

It’s “Dropbox.”

It just looks weird when you capitalize the B, because it’s not written like that anywhere else.

By: Abelardo D

Abelardo D — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:50:00 +0000

definteviley Ubuntu One deserves a place in this article, and is offering 5gb for free, android, ios, windows desktop, and linux desktop sync, and a premium service wich allow streaming (offline included) ur own music stored into the cloud to ur smarthphone if u buy comes buyiing additional storage, first 20 gb price is $40 / yr next 20 gb packages price are $30 / yr

By: Abelardo D

Abelardo D — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:43:00 +0000

they actually offerring only 7gb for free, are u sure existing users will remain 25 gb forever?

By: Aragorn7

Aragorn7 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:59:00 +0000

SkyDrive is no longer 25GB but 7GB. Existing users however can login for a short time and bump it back up to 25 GB. All others will be 7GB.

By: Allen Snowdon

Allen Snowdon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000

No mention of Ubuntu One. Hey fellas, it’s been around a while and even supports Windo$e!

By: Bristecom

Bristecom — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:18:00 +0000

SkyDrive has the most potential with Windows 8 integration. But Google Drive should be nice too.

By: Koller

Koller — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:45:00 +0000

I moved all my documents to SkyDrive because is the only one with 25GB free and with the new app the integration with the OS is a lot better than before. So for now I stay with SkyDrive!

By: jhdale

jhdale — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:40:00 +0000

Which of them support sync folders? (Dropbox does, I think SkyDrive, but not Box yet…?) I have 2 Gb from Dropbox and 50 Gb from Box, but Dropbox is the one I use because it is seamless.

By: Sashi

Sashi — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:58:00 +0000

SkyDrive Free 25 GB total storage

By: Sashi

Sashi — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:57:00 +0000

SkyDrive give 25GB free

By: Moet Dixon

Moet Dixon — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:56:00 +0000

didnt you hear? BG is 1 googol bytes lol

By: acetabulum

acetabulum — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:36:00 +0000

What unit of measurement is BG? I’ll let your lazy editor do his job and find the mistake.

By: JohnJohnJ

JohnJohnJ — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:33:00 +0000

I want 5BG from Box..

By: JohnJohnJ

JohnJohnJ — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:12:00 +0000

Author, your article would read better if you would have used a grid comparison format. And you should have included all pricing plans. As is, your article is incomplete.