Best Cloud Storage | Dropbox vs OneDrive vs Google Drive vs iCloud vs Box vs Mega

Dropbox vs Google Drive vs OneDrive vs iCloud vs Box vs Mega - what the best cloud storage and which online storage file you should be signing up for?

In this video, we'll review the best online cloud storage providers extensively when it comes to pricing, user experience, cloud sharing, backup, reliability and more!

By the end of this video, I will also provide recommendations of what I think is the best cloud storage to get in 2021, so keep watching!

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0:00 2021 Best Cloud Storage
02:44 Microsoft OneDrive
7:40 Google Drive
14:06 Apple iCloud
16:20 Dropbox
19:00 Box
21:34 Mega
25:55 Summary

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[raedbilbessi]

What I love most about Dropbox is peer-to-peer synchronizing.

[dr.z]

One of most important point not discussed is Privacy Policy. For example Google Drive admits that it scans every single byte you upload (for security reasons). I'm interested if other providers also do the same?

[brazenserpent]

Update: Google Drive for Desktop will have fully replaced Google Backup and Sync by October 1st, 2021. I'm using it now, and I can say that it's pretty neat. Of course, there are a few issues here and there, as the software is still new and not yet entirely released to the public. Thank you for creating this video, mate!

[BrandonEarly]

I’m using a
pCloud lifetime plan and love it.

[kriskotaro]

Just listening to you trains me to keep track with fast speakers.
Thanks for the beautiful insight.

[robertlongoria]

Thanks for providing this community service. It was well presented and the best “nutshell” on this topic I have seen to date. I would add that from my perspective Dropbox offers more integrations than any of the others. It is their competitive advantage IMHO. Many more and smaller, special purpose tools “hook on” to Dropbox than any of the others. Thanks again, excellent content.

[macster]

I really want to use OneDrive, but the fact that it won't let you sync any folder on ANY location in your PC is a turn off for me. You can only sync files in the same hard drive OneDrive is installed on. With Google Drive, it doesn't matter where your file is located in your PC, you can point to it.

[MaxZappa]

i'm pretty sure I heard you say both onedrive nor googledrive backup your data. I'm confused, I thought the whole purpose of these services is that they backup local files/folders from hard drives held on a PC to remote storage, at data centres. My whole reason for looking at this review was to consider how I can safely and securely back-up photos/media and documents held on my PC to somewhere where I would easily be able to recover them, should my hard drives fail? Can you explain? Are you saying that I could not do that?

[ahubbard]

Onedrive for me. I used iCloud until I got a windows computer and it comes packaged with Microsoft word.

[gert]

I am working in a mixed environment of people using Macs and Windows PC; iCloud is a mess when you also use it on Windows, crashing, not syncing, double folders, ... it's a real horror. My company is migrating to Dropbox.

[WhiTor]

I’m curious what you mean about not seeing some of these as backup, only as storage, as in Google for example. I see backup and storage as the same. If you don’t mind, would you please clarify this point for my simple mind? 😊 I am a big Apple user so iCloud is for sure for me but I also have PC for work. I use external drive only for work due to privacy. However, I’m currently currently doing a big photo organization (my biggest reason for cloud/storage/backup). I will continue to use iCloud and an external drive, plus one other cloud service, likely Google, but your comments on Google not being seen as backup I’m not clear on. While I love the sharing and syncing that iCloud and Google give us, I certainly also look at them as backup. Thus your comments on this make me realize I need to be more clear on this. Love your content. Thanks!

[jeffagoddard]

Like you, I sold a computer consulting company in 2019, so I’m semi-retired and guilty of being an Apple fan-boy. Personal cloud storage is very interesting versus enterprise cloud and software. I’m cancelling my 20 year Dropbox account because there are too many free options. In particular 15gb with each Google account, Amazon Photos (unlimited), OneDrive included with an Office license, and iCloud (so well integrated with my Mac, iPhone and iPad). DropBox was an innovator, but no need to pay for storage these days 😁

[hyper.death..records...]

Yo dawg love your personality, first time on your channel btw, auto play brought me here. Ily

[jhannes]

What I'm looking for is a Finder integration, that allows me to set syncing behavior for specific folders. Forcing a folders content to always or never be local. iCloud doesn't provide that.
Does anybody have insights what does?

[vtwisdale]

I am new to managing storage and, therefore, have various media stored in icloud and google drive; in the above video, you mentioned you use 3 cloud storage platforms so my question is:
Is it because you: 1) benefit from utilizing all the free cloud storage from each OR 2) use each platform for different forms of media ?? I am trying to save money but it seems very difficult to manage media when it is in multiple places! So if you could incorporate information as to what video helps you manage your media (photos, videos, voicemails & documents, I would be so grateful!!! Victoria

[hellkat]

I will stick with Drop Box. When you say backup do you mean on your own storage drive, USB ports or are you talking icloud?

[itskbtv]

I think Im going to use both. Google for photos and videos and dropbox for file sharing

[derMcSven]

i will use one drive - with the 365 Version it has 1tb already AND you can the whole office programs

[RealDylanDouglas]

I have been using a business Google Drive account for about 3 years and have almost 6 tb on it. The only thing that is sketchy is that I have uploaded music and Google seemed to have removed .mp3 files from backed up music folders. That is the only issue I have had. Overall great experience and can't beat the price I pay for unlimited storage

[AmericanPatriots]

We have been using Sync free for years. Not perfect but they have very good support and reliability. Not good at sharing very large files though.