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As a current user of Dropbox, Google Drive & OneDrive I can definitely say that Dropbox beats the other two (and probably any other similar service) in both net

As a current user of Dropbox, Google Drive & OneDrive I can definitely say that Dropbox beats the other two (and probably any other similar service) in both network transfers (up/down) and indexing time (especially if you consider LAN sync too for when mirroring data between devices). The level of file/folder movement you can do in Dropbox while it's sync'ing data is unparalleled. If you try doing the same e.g. with Google Drive, you will either end up with duplicate files or even lose data overall. But we all know that this probably comes at a potential cost, e.g. privacy related concerns (anyone remember the controversial Dropbox board appointment of C. Rice back in the day?), services getting hacked etc. So knowing the above and knowing that with Nextcloud, Owncloud, Syncthing etc. you fully control your cloud backup, any (perhaps) lower performance takes a step back for sure. But then again, if you're hosting on a server that's geographically close to you & on a solid datacenter with great peering (e.g. Hetzner, Scaleway/Online.net or OVH for Europeans), performance can be on par or perhaps even better compared to "established" backup cloud services.

psadauskas 4y ago
Several years ago, I had a personal Dropbox account with lots of stuff in it. I joined a company that also had a corporate shared Dropbox. Since I couldn't sync multiple Dropbox accounts with the same client on a single computer, I joined my personal Dropbox account to the company one. Later, when I left that job, the company removed me from the corporate Dropbox account. Dropbox removed all the corporate files from my local machine, and also all my personal ones. And deleted my personal files from my personal dropbox account, too. Luckily, I had another backup I was able to restore. Now, I never link personal and corporate accounts of any kind, and stopped using Dropbox once they stopped supporting Linux.

psadauskas 4y ago

Several years ago, I had a personal Dropbox account with lots of stuff in it. I joined a company that also had a corporate shared Dropbox. Since I couldn't sync multiple Dropbox accounts with the same client on a single computer, I joined my personal Dropbox account to the company one. Later, when I left that job, the company removed me from the corporate Dropbox account. Dropbox removed all the corporate files from my local machine, and also all my personal ones. And deleted my personal files from my personal dropbox account, too. Luckily, I had another backup I was able to restore. Now, I never link personal and corporate accounts of any kind, and stopped using Dropbox once they stopped supporting Linux.