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There are plenty of options out there for file storage services with decent phone client and being able to easily share file with non-techie friends and family.
by bsharitt 9y ago
There are plenty of options out there for file storage services with decent phone client and being able to easily share file with non-techie friends and family. There are also plenty of file storage services that have clients for the desktop and command line Linux. But Drop box is the only one I've found that works across both of those very well with first party clients.
After all that, I'm not a paying Dropbox customer though. Unfortunately their pricing left me behind when it went to $10 a month for 1TB and nothing between that and free. So instead of I deal with the wonkiness of Google Drive when I need to on Linux and it works well enough everywhere else and the $2 a moth for 100GB is plenty.
- Cerium 9y agoSame boat, If they had a $5 tier - even for only 20gb I would be a paying customer. As is I keep using my free plan.
- stevenhuang 9y agoThere's an open source Google Drive cli for Linux too, works super well: https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive https://github.com/prasmussen/gdrive
- weavie 9y agoThis also works on FreeBSD. I haven't found any DropBox equivalent for BSD.
- geomark 9y agoWhat do you think of Mega? [1]. I switched from Dropbox to Mega because of that same pricing issue. I'm not a power user but it certainly works well for syncing files and photos across by Linux and Android devices. [1] https://mega.nz/ https://mega.nz/
- coolspot 9y agoMega is awesome and also end-to-end encrypted.
- user5994461 9y agoMega is the second iteration of megaupload, funded by piracy and shut down by the FBI some years ago. The founder is shady and has under many ongoing trials and extraditions claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom Seriously. Don't hold your personal files on mega. They can be shut down any minute and delete all your data. That's what happened last time. Dropbox is a respectable business. It's not comparable.
- geomark 9y agoI'm more inclined to go with Mega because of Kim Dotcom than I am to use Dropbox with Condoleezza Rice on its board.
- coolspot 9y agoAFAIK mega.nz was founded by Kim, but later bought out by investors. It is fully laws and DMCA compliant. It is not about piracy anymore.
- user5994461 9y agoIt's as compliant as megaupload was. Don't get it wrong, the vast majority of the traffic is piracy.
- therealdrag0 9y ago
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI'd also love to have a slightly lower tier than 1TB, maybe just 20GB or 50GB.