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Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like
by manigandham 6y ago
Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like email/productivity apps.
- fireattack 6y agoCan confirm. I have to move all my node projects to Dropbox for this particular reason.
- cerved 6y agoAre you putting `node_modules` in cloud storage?
- fireattack 6y agoYes. I knew you could use git and install modules on each end separately, but putting the whole thing in sync is just more convenient for some personal toy projects.
- duxup 6y agoThanks for the tip!
- brnt 6y agoActually, Resilio is not any slower than Dropbox. Syncthing is also faster thans any commercial offering I ever tried. Even Nextcloud sync is fast after an initial init.
- manigandham 6y agoWhat exactly are you referring to? Upload speed? That's not the issue. Dropbox is the best at crawling a very complex directory structure with millions of files and diffing it efficiently with the server and other clients, and then transferring all the individual changes. Nothing else comes close. And their write-ups show the work involved: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o... https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-engine https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-en...
- brnt 6y agoIndexing. Dropbox is slower than Resilio in my experience, and for shares with 100k-1M files, many small. But also throughput is good.