I am currently used Dropbox, onedrive and Google drive. I don't think any of them are currently clear winners. I have too tried to move to a single one which so far has ended in tears. Dropbox seems the only one that does Lan sync. One drive has the feature where it only downloads the file on demand (Has placeholder when not being used) so uses way less drive space. Google drive seems to have two different clients now and I get confused which one I am supposed to be using (sync or the drive stream?)
Dropbox on my laptop is choking and quiting suddenly. Have been in email thread with Dropbox support trying to work it out. At least they Have support. Not sure how Microsoft or Google would go in that regard...? So can't really give you strong advice other than to let you know someone else is in the same boat... Cheers Stephen cheers, Stephen ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Greg Harris <g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 12:17:21 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: [Off Topic] Drop Box alternatives with a large number of files (about 0.5M+ files). Hi All, Sorry, this is a bit of a long rambling request for advice on using or replacing dropbox due to performance reasons with a large number of files (about 0.5M+ files). I used to be a huge supporter of dropbox. It used to just work and was reasonably responsive. Then it just stopped working for me last year. I think this may have been around the time when the OS updates were made for Spectre and Meltdown Security Flaw. The drop in effective performance of the CPU may have pushed the machine below the capacity to run the software??? I attempted to get some help from dropbox but that was a huge waste of time. I have now just got around to looking at alternatives. The first one I tried was One Drive. Because I am in a Microsoft setup, One Drive was the first logical choice. My current One Drive setup has 283K files in 105K folders with 70GB in the cloud and 27GB on the local machine. With One Drive in use, I have noticed the “One Drive Sync Engine” along with the “Windows Search Indexer” tasks running all the time, pushing up the CPU usage and the fans on the system are running to cool it down (which beforehand never happened). It is somewhat clever enough to know when there is interactive use and push the priority of the task down. But if I go away from my desk for a few minutes the task is taking a lot of CPU and the fans are running again. What I am looking for in a dropbox alternative is: 1. Reasonable performance 2. Online backup of working files 3. Reasonable price (yes I will pay for it) I think that my options are: 1. https://www.dropbox.com – Should I go back and try again???? 2. https://onedrive.live.com/ - Are the problems I am having consistent with your experience? 3. https://www.google.com/drive/ 4. https://www.box.com/ 5. Other I am running an old Intel Xeon 2.8GHz with 32 GB RAM as the base machine with a 3 core 10 GB VM inside it as my primary work horse machine. It has been clear the Moore’s law has died in the last five years, so I have seen no clear and present need to upgrade this machine. I am thinking that may be wrong, do I just need a new machine??? Thanks for your help on this :-) Greg Harris Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com<mailto:g...@harrisconsultinggroup.com> www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com<http://harrisconsultinggroup.com/home.htm> phone: (international) +61 407 942 982 phone: (within Australia) 0407 942 982 Sydney Australia
