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I've been using AeroFS for over a year now and its fantastic.

I switched from Dropbox to Aero for all my home computers (of which I have Windows and Linux desktops and Mac laptops) and the unlimited storage (as much as your home computers can hold) is great. Plus the files are only synced within your own computers so security/privacy is much better than uploading all your files to a public service like Dropbox.

The only negative as compared to Dropbox is that their client is not as efficient (it's Java based and takes a bit more resources than Dropbox).

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Did u look into Tonido or owncloud before deciding on this? Curious to know your take on them.

I was looking for a fast file syncing solution that worked on Win/Mac/Lin and didn't really need any GUI or web interface for my files like those 2 services seem to focus on.

Also Tonido has a 2GB limit on their free plan whereas AeroFS lets me sync as much files as I have storage space on my computers (so literally hundreds of GB).

Have you looked into BitTorrent Sync?

I have not. I basically stopped checking out file syncing solutions as Aero has been working well so far.

I'll have a look at BTsync now though. The feature set seems similar but btsync seems to have better mobile apps (Aero only has an Android app and no iPhone one).

I'm the other way around - have used BTSync for a while, not sure if I should make the move to AeroFS. The use case for BTSync seems to be closer to Dropbox - you give someone a secret, and that shares the folder with them. AeroFS seems to assume trusted environment among all participants, from what I can tell.

Yes I'm not sure that I need or want the shared secret system. I like that BT sync has mobile support but Aero is really good on the platforms I use it the most on -- Win/Mac/Linux.

Also, it seems BT sync still requires a centrally controlled tracker/relay for discovering peers similar to Aero and also isn't open source so not sure I want to bother moving all my systems and setting up the the shared secret keys just for mobile support yet.

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