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The Dropbox client is just vastly more reliable. I never had any sync issues with it and it is still the only one which supports both Delta sync and LAN sync a
by hs86 7y ago
The Dropbox client is just vastly more reliable.
I never had any sync issues with it and it is still the only one which supports both Delta sync and LAN sync and their automatic "Smart Sync" still works better than what Google offers without the need to awkwardly mount it as external/network storage.
The Backup and Sync client from Google is unreliable and imo just broken: It moves old versions of edited files into the local recycle bin and once it never recognized a file deletion I made on an other computer. Only some days later after manually restarting the client, it noticed that file deletion.
Google Drive File Stream has severe performance issues: I have an unlimited G Suite account and use it mainly for Arq Backup. While ~5 TiB data is not THAT much, Arq does create thousands of small files in its destination folder. For the initial sync the GDFS client took over a week while using more than 60 GiB RAM! Afterwards its memory usage settles down but this was just for enumerating the remote files without any anything marked as 'available offline'. On my MacBook Air with less RAM this initial sync never finishes without GDFS crashing first.
While I still use the official Dropbox client, I replaced all other sync clients with Mountain Duck. It doesn't show any deal-breaker bugs and its resource usage is also manageable.