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TL;DR: give syncthing a try. first time setup is odd, then bam, your files magically sync anywhere with internet. I carried around my 1GB Data Traveler flash d
by Multicomp 5y ago
TL;DR: give syncthing a try. first time setup is odd, then bam, your files magically sync anywhere with internet.
I carried around my 1GB Data Traveler flash drive with great conviction. Then, a massive 4G SanDisk drive I would 'never fill up'.
Then, when my 16GB Nexus 4 filled up, one day while I was MTPing my old pictures to my computer, someone told me about Dropbox and how it would sync my pictures for me. After living out of Dropbox for all my non-cold-storage files...I hit the free limit. But I was a student and didn't have money to pay per month.
Skydrive gave me 25 GB. And 3 successive phones ate that like candy. So start paying up Mister. ugh.
But then, Syncthing came along here on HN. I installed it onto my phone and pc for camera download. then another, and another, and a separate folder for sharing files with a colleague, then my work SAN got laggy and lost files, so syncthing to keep my work files local and synced between work devices to the rescue.
And now, I don't pay for storage. or I do, but it just happens to come with word 365, but I don't bother using it.
And the flash drives? I'm up to a 256GB Sandisk Pro of some kind, but only for 'just in case' scenarios. Syncthing handles all of my LAN files access needs.
- creativeembassy 5y agoI used to use Dropbox as well, but it started freaking out when I had folders with over 500,000 files in them. I started writing scripts to zip up folders first, moved some things off Dropbox, but it would just take up several CPU cores when going through everything. I tried Syncthing, and it had zero issues with the number of files I had. Everything just worked. I was amazed that the free solution was so much better than the commercial solution for which I was paying $10+ each month.
- e3bc54b2 5y agoOver long enough timeline, free software almost always gets better, acheiving parity and eventually surpassing the proprietory service. Free software doesn't need to be reinvented and can keep on steadily fixing issues. It happened for gcc, Linux, GNU, Blender, OBS, VLC, Calibre and obviously Syncthing. As long as scope is clear and target is not moving too much, FLOSS will catch it.