#Spideroak vs dropbox 2015 android#
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#Spideroak vs dropbox 2015 free#

Posted by flabdablet at 9:17 AM on April 14, 2019 But I could actually imagine myself spending $350 just once to oblige an online storage provider to give me 2TB I could forget about until I needed it. Since my own Dropbox account has been well under whatever paltry number of GB they offer for free, I too would balk at paying $10/month for 1TB I have no present use for. Upgrading from lifetime 500GB to lifetime 2TB costs the same as just buying lifetime 2TB, so doing that is effectively just burning the initial cost of the 500GB plan.Д®ssentially you're betting that your online storage requirements are not going to grow larger than your initial plan size selection, and they're betting that over time the per-gigabyte price of storage will shrink faster than the income they make off your up-front payment will grow. For a one time payment you get 99 years of storage: $175 for 500GB or $350 for 2TB, which is about what it would cost you to buy three years of service at their monthly subscription rates. PCloud's lifetime pricing model is interesting. This way, even though is registered on devices 1, 2 and 3 and is registered on devices 4, 5 and 6, they would all sync the same files.

One potential way to circumvent the limit for a person who needs to have more than three 'account holder' devices is to use an email ailiasing service such as sneakemail to register for multiple Dropbox accounts and simply share all directories among them. If the three device total also applies to devices belonging to holders of other Dropbox accounts with whom a directory or file may be shared, that kind of breaks the model.

#Spideroak vs dropbox 2015 free#

They should each have an account and share folders among accounts.ДЄ limit of three 'account holder' devices seems reasonable for a free service.

If the OP is sharing files by sharing the login credentials to a single Dropbox account among the owners of 37 devices, this is not how Dropbox is supposed to work. If that's the case, some paid implementation of Dropbox makes sense. It seems unlikely that the OP personally owns 37 devices with Dropbox installed. It's unclear to me whether or not the three device limit applies to the account holder's devices or to devices belonging to other Dropbox account holders with whom folders have been shared. I do wish that a company I'm familiar with offered NextCloud services (like Fastmail.fm) with prices similar to Dropbox or a bit cheaper - I'm not up for running my own these days. NextCloud is more full-featured, includes file storage, calendaring, etc. Some hosting providers also offer accounts. If you want a more DIY solution there's NextCloud, which offers clients for pretty much everything and you can self-host the software. Not great, not as seamless as Dropbox, and I've had occasional issues with hiccups in the service, though it's been a while. Unlimited devices, supports Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux. They have 150GB plans for $6 a month or $69 annually.

#Spideroak vs dropbox 2015 password#

They claim that they cannot decrypt your data and do not store your password - except if you use the Web-based interface to recover a file, in which case they do see your password but claim that there's only a window of time in which it's stored. SpiderOak is similar to Dropbox but with 'zero knowledge' encryption. My partner has this and it's Good Enough(TM) for their purposes. If you are completely ensconced in Apple's ecosystem, they have their own iCloud or whatever with similar pricing. I use Google Drive for a tiny amount of storage. 'What, you like that service? Pity we're pulling the plug on it next month.' It's Google though, and we all know their approach to services and products aimed at consumers is whimsical. 100GB is $2 a month, AFAIK there's no limit on devices.

#Spideroak vs dropbox 2015 android#

If you only need Mac / Windows support and/or Android / iOS support, I believe Google Drive might be suitable for you. Since you're on the free tier, though, I'm guessing that your needs are not huge. You don't mention what OSes or devices or storage limit you need.