Barracuda is discontinuing Copy - what next?
February 2, 2016 11:47 AM Subscribe
Barracuda is discontinuing Copy in May, but I'm getting nagged to move my ~20GB of data now.
What service do I go to next?
I really like Copy. It integrates into my Android phone (Copy autouploads photos for myself and my husband), makes sharing easy, and splits the sharing allocation across everyone who is sharing the information. I have about 20GB of space used, some of which is what other people have shared with me.
I know Dropbox is a favorite, but it doesn't have enough space for me with the free tier. Copy is recommending OneDrive.
What are peoples' favorite options?
I really like Copy. It integrates into my Android phone (Copy autouploads photos for myself and my husband), makes sharing easy, and splits the sharing allocation across everyone who is sharing the information. I have about 20GB of space used, some of which is what other people have shared with me.
I know Dropbox is a favorite, but it doesn't have enough space for me with the free tier. Copy is recommending OneDrive.
What are peoples' favorite options?
I'm probably going to push my stuff over to Google Drive and/or Amazon Cloud. I have iCloud also, but mostly use it for backing up my phone and photos.
posted by a halcyon day at 1:46 PM on February 2, 2016
posted by a halcyon day at 1:46 PM on February 2, 2016
Best answer: The biggest thing Dropbox has going for it is the ecosystem. Everybody (for varying values of everybody) is using it, and it has the best integration with other apps. If you're using Copy, though, I'm guessing that's not an issue for you.
OneDrive will not have enough space for you in their free tier either. They are actually in the process of dropping their free offering from 15GB to 5GB, including for existing owners. At this point, I think Google Drive have the largest free offering at 15GB spread across mail, documents, photos, etc.
I like OneDrive. Like tuxster, I pay for the annual Office subscription that gives me a tonne of storage. I actually bought a $100 HP Stream 7 tablet that came with a year's worth of Office. Seagate are also selling drives bundled with extra OneDrive space. If you happen to be in the market for an external drive, or a kind of terrible tablet, you might look into deals like that.
One real benefit for me to OneDrive: I was becoming increasingly unhappy with Evernote, so I switched to OneNote, and got rid of that subscription.
posted by sincarne at 1:57 PM on February 2, 2016
OneDrive will not have enough space for you in their free tier either. They are actually in the process of dropping their free offering from 15GB to 5GB, including for existing owners. At this point, I think Google Drive have the largest free offering at 15GB spread across mail, documents, photos, etc.
I like OneDrive. Like tuxster, I pay for the annual Office subscription that gives me a tonne of storage. I actually bought a $100 HP Stream 7 tablet that came with a year's worth of Office. Seagate are also selling drives bundled with extra OneDrive space. If you happen to be in the market for an external drive, or a kind of terrible tablet, you might look into deals like that.
One real benefit for me to OneDrive: I was becoming increasingly unhappy with Evernote, so I switched to OneNote, and got rid of that subscription.
posted by sincarne at 1:57 PM on February 2, 2016
Response by poster: Thanks for the recommendations. As it turns out, because I have a Surface I have a couple hundred gigs of OneDrive.
posted by bookdragoness at 7:22 PM on February 14, 2016
posted by bookdragoness at 7:22 PM on February 14, 2016
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It does let you autoupload pictures from iPhone. I don't know about Android.
posted by tuxster at 12:20 PM on February 2, 2016