Nextcloud has great sync clients for linux, iPhone and Windows. (It has clients for Mac and Android too, although I've never used them.) And google doesn't get access to my data or metadata.
I think, if I really would want to go setting up my own thing to save money, setting/writing some service backed by object storage (AWS S3) would be cheaper and reliable enough.
[1] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/21/dropbox-lets-any...
[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dropbox#Using_Dropbox_w...
I use nextcloud but I already have a k8s cluster where I host my stuff like calendars, notes, decks, S3.
One 10Gi volume is 1USD/month where I host mine. Yes, more expensive, but I don't need 2TB and also how come Dropbox can offer storage that cheap? What's their incentive?
Also I still use my Google account and if I add it into Fedora my Google drive appears in the Gnome file manager. So I'm confused about the lack of Gdrive client, I assume they mean from Google. But all Google has to do is expose APIs and docs and someone else will write one.
For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
It's not to be taken seriously.
That said, my point was with little extra money -- features such as easy sharing, security, versioning, nice mobile apps, and time saved moving around things manually (like photos), offline access (and if you use rsync cron, not worrying about conflicts) etc makes it worth that extra few $$$.
You would get way more than 20 GB.
But I have in fact also left my nextcloud on the web. I'm not that worried.
Just have to stay informed on any big vulns, and I also stay as many releases as I can behind the bleeding edge. That helped me avoid the recent fidokey issue.
Sidenote: Look how tiny that item ID is in the URL!
Dropbox is the best syncing solution technically, though GDrive is probably competitive.
If you need it for business, pay for it and go to AWS, Backblaze, GCP, Dropbox, etc.
It’s about ~$49/yr in my country and even though I hate to deal with OneDrive compared to Dropbox, can’t beat the price as I anyway buy Office 365.
On the thread's subject, I use rclone to access it - works great.
You need your own domain and set up GSuite Business account on it or a subdomain. Included in the offer: Google Drive - Unlimited cloud storage. The "or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users" bit is not technically enforced. Even if it were, I think $60/month is still very competitive if you need to store dozens of terabytes.
Sticker price currently $12/month but there are also discounted offers available if you look for them
Google drive and dropbox are better deals for storage, so I can see why they'd be attractive for people who need more.
A 250GB SSD is what? 30$ these days?
You could buy a lot of SSD's for that over the course of a year, and have the storage local.