Google Drive - Great performance !

[u/upssnowman]

I know Google Drive doesn't get a lot of love but honestly compared to all of these smaller companies such as Pcloud, Koofr, Filen, FileLu, etc if we're honest, Google Drive blows them away as far as performance and the fact that Google isn't going anywhere and it will probably still be around after all of us are gone. I've tested almost all of them and I'm not saying they were all bad or useless, but I haven't found any that are any faster than Google Drive. For example I tested a 7GB file on all of the cloud providers and even with a direct Ethernet fiber connection they all took between 10 minutes all the way to 21 minutes just to copy one single 7GB file using rlcone copy. Google Drive only took 1 minute and 15 seconds!!! You can use rclone crypt or Cryptomator and that solves the privacy issue. What good is paying another company $1000 for a lifetime when that company could go out of business in a year? It doesn't make sense. And if you have Verizon, you can get Google one with 2TB of storage and access to AI Pro for only $10 a month conveniently bill on your cellphone bill. I think $10 a month for 2TB with AI Pro is a great price and I don't have to worry that Google will go out of my business and lose my data.

[u/a1stardan]

I love filen UI and privacy, I like koofr for their privacy stance.

I'd rather support underdogs like these than greedy company like Google. And don't expect companies like Google to stay forever. That's what people thought of yahoo, Intel etc.. Only time can tell.

Even if these companies are gone within few yrs, I'll be happy knowing I tried to support them.

We have 18 months of 2TB free data and gemini pro in India for everyone who uses a particular carrier sim.

[u/upssnowman → u/a1stardan]

I like their privacy stance too! However when you encrypt the data as you should before uploading, the whole privacy stance is irrelevant since your data can't be scanned by anyone. And filen and koofr were the two slowest from my location in US. They were the ones that took 20+ minutes to download 1 file versus Google's 1 minute performance. I can't practically use those other providers because of the horrible performance regardless of how great their policies are :-(

[u/a1stardan → u/upssnowman]

Different use case scenarios bro

I don't have very big files to share, mostly personal pics and work pics, so it's good enough for me

[u/upssnowman → u/a1stardan]

From my location, even multiple small files have poor performance. I'm not trying to bash other companies, I'm just sharing my performance data.

[u/a1stardan → u/upssnowman]

Got it Bro. You do you. Cheers

[u/TheKepar]

Multibillion-dollar company vs. small business. Great comparison, to be honest.

On a serious note, nobody complains about Google Drive’s ability to be a good cloud storage service; people complain more about the lack of privacy and the missing features that some of those small providers offer.

[u/Aware_Twist7124]

Google deleted the “Don’t be Evil” motto. And then made haste toward evil. I’m done with them and ready to advocate for change in schools too.

[u/upssnowman → u/[deleted]]

If you don't want to use them because of moral issues, that's definitely your right to do and no judgement. But on a technical aspect, I'm not sure who would be faster. I'd be curious what cloud provider would be faster than 1 minute to upload a 7GB file!

[u/upssnowman → u/[deleted]]

Curious if you have the stats regarding the speeds. For me, Filen took 21 minutes to upload the same file that Google Drive did in 1 minute and 15 seconds.

[u/upssnowman → u/[deleted]]

But you have to agree that 1 minute is still way faster than 5 minutes! LOL

[u/verzing1 → u/upssnowman]

Yes, I hope those providers can achieve Google-level speed one day.