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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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      • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Were those errors that the drive was full?

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      • Thetimefarm@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I recently started using Tresorit, E2E encrypted cloud storage, owned by the swiss post, only downside I can find is price. I haven’t used it long enough to really be able to recommend, but there aren’t a ton of options out there.

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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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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here are options for to mount Backblaze B2 as a drive. It’s $6/TB/month, and I think they allow <1TB, so for 300GB you’d pay ~$2/month. So I think they’re pretty competitive, but I’m not familiar with Google Drive’s terms. They’re certainly in the same ballpark.

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