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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Proton drive is fantastic.

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  • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just signed up for that just to check it out and compare it, and it looks like upgrading the storage on it is more expensive than Google Drive.

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but that’s expected. It’s difficult to compete as a smaller company compared to what Google can offer.

      It’s the price of privacy and to be outside of the google ecosystem.

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      • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apparently, doing a sync with it just on my documents and photos, it ended up filling up the Proton Drive and giving hundreds of errors on one of my Windows 10 computers.

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    • justaderp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s an incredible story behind it. But, the short form is that Proton Mail is more expensive because they’re not harvesting all your private information. In a few months the law will prevent them from doing for as long as the core fiscal law and Proton Mail exist (at least decades).

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      • buttfarts@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I happily pay for my email service from Proton to compensate for all the data mining they AREN’T doing to me

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If price is main concern, you still have options, but you’ll need to be a lot more specific about what you need. For example:

      • proprietary, hosted products like OneDrive, Amazon Drive, DropBox, and MEGA
      • backups - NordLocker, Backblaze
      • hosted and self-hosted cloud platforms - OwnCloud and NextCloud, use Backblaze B2 for storage

      I’m doing the last one. I have NextCloud installed on my custom NAS (just openSUSE Leap with some drives) and am working on configuring B2 as a backup service.

      Each of these are similar in price to Google Drive, but with a different feature set. Some are cheaper.

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      • KonalaKoala@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry for not being more specific about what I need, I will explain it here.

        With Google Drive, it gets assigned to a drive letter on my computer which is H: here and I’m not sure if any other Drive alternatives do that or not.

        Right now, I currently pay $3 USD a month for 300 GBs of Google Drive space and they appear to go up with 5TBs for $25 USD a month and $10TBs for $50 USD a month.

        I’m not interested in One Drive as that is Microsoft’s Shit.

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