Google Drive vs. Dropbox?

[Tskware]

Been using the free Dropbox for years but thinking of changing to the free Google Drive. Reasons are 3X free storage (but Gmail messages count against storage which does not matter in Dropbox) and access on any device (Dropbox limited to three devices). Seems like a no brainer, but for you more sophisticated computer users (which means 75% of you on this site), what am I missing? Are there advantages to Dropbox that don't work on Google Drive? Anybody else switch? What was your experience?

Thanks in advance.

 

[LineSkiCat14]

I generally just prefer larger platforms (like Google or MS) over smaller niche companies. With Google Drive, you know there's going to be better support, ease of use, integrates well with email, google docs, etc. Sounds like it makes sense.

Companies do seem to be restricting device usage. One of the only "smaller" tech companies I use, is Evernote for note-taking, and they've gotten very strict with only allowing 2 devices for the free version. Wouldn't surprise me to see that change for many of these companies as time goes on.

All that being said, I don't use much cloud storage. I have a custom PC with quite a bit of drives/redundancy and just keep stuff stored locally. And that's just more out of laziness, of not moving stuff to the cloud, not that I think storing locally is that much better.

 

[catlanta33]

For file storage and accessing them, I think google is the way to go. It's what we use for our project info and it's easy to create shareable files with customers and have them separate from internal files.

I do like that when I sign in, I get a prompt on my phone asking if it's me or not.

 

[Kaizer Sosay]

NAS with plex is the best way to go...obviously.

 

[funKYcat75]

Drive is pretty much the best tool that Google has ever created, other than Search. Miles ahead of Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, etc.

 

[kyblue'92]

I use Google Drive for documents, spreadsheets, pictures and videos everyday. Less hassle already signed in with my Google accounts, sufficient storage and file sharing. Also, BWO uses it to host the replay games to easily share with everyone on here and that's huge for the size of full game downloads. It's very convenient to move the files between my PC/Mac and the phone with the downloaded application.

 

[Tskware]

The Paddock has spoken, off to G Drive I go!

Thanks for the advice

 

[vhcat70]

Drop boxes are where elections are rigged.

 

[Tskware]

Drop boxes are where elections are rigged.

Unless your side wins, then they are fine

[jk, jk, don't want to derail this thread, like about 1000 other threads on this site]

 

[Tskware]

Just used it the first time for a business meeting and every document I needed loaded perfectly on my phone. Thanks to all for the advice

 

[funKYcat75]

Thanks, bot

 

[Deeeefense]

I've used Box.com for about 10 years and love it. Very easy to use and it has a lot of nice features, you can add viewers to a document, file or the entire site, and restrict their access to view and download only or allow editing, adding and deleting documents. Very easy to send a document to someone or a group. The app's main screen looks similar to the file structure on your computer whereas I found Google Drive's main screen cluttered with icons and difficult to navigate. Free service.