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Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family sharing which is just free with Google.

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If you make a lot of changes, the Dropbox sync works. Google drive or OneDrive choke in a variety of situations.

The product sucks in lots of other ways.

I hate OneDrive, and I don't even USE it. I hate it because my corporate users taht use it have a constant stream of issues with it. It fails to sync constantly, the agent fails to load properly, or needs to be logged in again for some reason, etc. It's a never ending stream of failures with the heaviest users.

Yup. That’s my experience, too. Also, on macOS the client UI is horrible. It’s slow and I’ve yet to find a way to open local files that it displays in the list of recently synced files.

I hate OneDrive because Office apps have some extremely strange interaction with it. They are not always in sync with the main client.

There is nothing like changing an excel file, having it correctly modified locally but still seeing the old data in a linked PowerPoint because OneDrive didn't update.

It also managed to lose me a day of work once despite having saved the file regularly. None of my modifications were properly synched to the history.

I also hate how it pauses itself when I'm sharing my phone connection and tends to struggle when I restart it.

I used to really dislike Google Drive before my company migrated but between that and the abysmal outlook search I really miss Google.

Indeed!

Google forced the new Google Drive client on me...

On my M1 Mac it crashes constantly and the Finder pops up Google Drive disconnect dialogues constantly.

Two days into finally relenting and giving the update from Backup & Sync to the new Drive client another try, it's still churning through my files!

It may never finish at this rate it constantly crashes!

Google Drive on M1 macOS is bad. Really bad. :-/

Hmm..The original backup & sync was a resource hog on my M1 but the new Google Drive client is pretty resource efficient.

It's not resource utilisation as such that is the issue!

More that it crashes constantly!

It could be the volume of files it's churning through. But still... 'cmon Google!

If I use new Drive with my personal account, that only has ~200 or so files. Then no real issues.

However, when I tell it to sync to a Google Drive account that has ~200k files.... then it chokes.

I'm also telling it to download the files and store them on an external SSD, so they can be backed up by a 3rd party service!

With a large number of files, the new Drive client isn't having a good day! :-)

+1 Some years ago I tied keeping a "biggish" backup in Google Drive. I really tried. Left the computer syncing for a week, without any progress indicator (only something generic, like syncing). I the end I went with Dropbox. It took a few days, but I could see actual progress happening.

I do not know if this is still the case nowadays.

I have no idea how I managed it as it was a long time ago, but I'm on exactly the plan that _everybody_ is crying out for. It might have been the result of some A-B test for all I know. I can't see any reference to it on any website, but it's 100 GB with reasonable annual pricing:

https://i.imgur.com/uTH75ex.png

It comes with Dropbox Paper, etc. Also, Dropbox, if you're reading this and are thinking about taking it away from me I'm switching to OneDrive immediately, I'm already paying for Office 365 anyway.

Also, more proof: https://i.imgur.com/BThdxTD.png

On the other hand, Google has a kind of pricing gap. You can either get 200GB for $CAD40/yr, and the next storage option is 2TB for $CAD140/yr.

Nothing in between..

Apple has the same kind of gap with iCloud.

This is one of the most frustrating things about being invested in the Apple ecosystem. I've hit the 200gb limit and I'll be damned if I'll pay 330% more for storage that I don't need. Instead I'm deleting my oldest photos from iCloud and moving them over to OneDrive.

Backblaze?

I use Apple One (family) and can add storage on top of it. It’s not very many tiers, but 50GiB, 200GiB and 2TiB. Which puts storage at 250, 400 and 2200 in total. Adding 2TiB is 10 dollars a month (on top of the one subscription) which is cheap comparatively to what it used to cost (iirc). Apple one of course only makes sense if you use other Apple services (I use music and tv+ so for me it’s a win win)

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