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    Roman S.

Very useful for accessign files from multiple computers

  • March 15, 2016
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
I use both Dropbox and Google Drive. Most of my personal stuff is Google Drive because I'm always already logged into Google and it gives me extra storage for Gmail. But I think sharing tools in Dropbox are better. At least I find them better, you can send photos and videos and they play right in the browser. Dropbox also seems to be faster with syncing the changes, but I can't confirm that.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish they had a different pricing model, if you go beyond free, you have to pay for 1TB. If you actually need the whole TB, then the price is reasonable, but if you only need 100GB and are paying for 1TB every month or year, then it doesn't make nearly as much sense for the consumers. I think Amazon's model for it is better where you pay for what you use, but it's not nearly as consumer friendly. There are also some little issue that bug me, like if you have a lot of folders and you create a new one, on top it shows a notification that it was created, but it's just next, not a link to it, so now you have to find the new folder in a long list. The folders also don't show the sizes, only individual files, so it's hard to tell how much space each folder is taken up without having to download them all to a local hard drive. I also haven't found a way to split one large Dropbox account between several local hard drives, if you don't have one drive that can fit everything. There is a way to do it with 3rd party tools for Google Drive, but it wasn't easy.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping files between multiple computers in sync and having an easy way to share files, pictures and videos. It also backs up my photos from my phone automatically.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Dropbox is a good solution, but Google Drive and Amazon S3 cloud are also good, slightly different. I've heard various reports about transfer speeds for each, in my experience Amazon transferred files a lot faster.