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Has anyone used Box for personal data? How is the reliability and sync speeds compared to the competition?

I signed up during a 25GB free deal they had a while a go. I use it along side Dropbox and Google Drive and as far as I can tell it's as good as either of those.

Have you tried downloading back your files? Is it as seamless as Dropbox?

The other day I signed up with SpiderOak (over the recent buzz about security and all) and luckily I had to share a folder with a friend in another country. He has the fastest bandwidth available but complained that his connection would drop during the downloads out of SpiderOak. I switched the content to Dropbox and he downloaded trouble free in one go.

In my experience throughput is much lower on Box. Also there's no desktop client for Linux.

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