iCloud Cloud storage to iCloud Drive

[circatee]

Has anyone here switched from the likes of Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etcetera to iCloud Drive?

Worth the switch (centralizing everything with Apple)?

 

[Whyy]

I made the switch from OneDrive to iCloud Drive. I was using both actually but was annoyed at a bug in OneDrive where if I searched for a file it wouldn’t show the file. Iirc, it wouldn’t show any results most of the time, if not all of the time.

I have been paying for OneDrive storage and iCloud storage. I transferred the vast majority of the files in OneDrive to iCloud.

My thoughts:

OneDrive has a better payment structure. I can pay once a year and I even get a workplace discount. I wish I wasn’t stuck paying every month for iCloud.

iCloud Drive search works fine and having it on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac is very convenient when accessing my files.

I don’t like that iCloud maxes out at 2TB unless you resort to various workarounds.

It’s almost time for my OneDrive subscription to renew and I thought I would cancel it but after having some issues on my Mac where I was afraid I would delete my entire iCloud Drive contents, I’m leaning towards keeping the OneDrive subscription. I’m thinking to just use it as a backup source and continue to use iCloud as my main storage provider.

I also make heavy use of Google Drive (paid as well) but that’s mostly used for specific purposes. I also have external USB sticks and a T7 Shield SSD that is storing important files but I enjoy the convenience of cloud storage.

Overall, I enjoy iCloud Drive and find it worth paying for. It’s not without flaws though and I don’t recommend putting all your valuable eggs in the iCloud basket.

 

[circatee]

I made the switch from OneDrive to iCloud Drive. I was using both actually but was annoyed at a bug in OneDrive where if I searched for a file it wouldn’t show the file. Iirc, it wouldn’t show any results most of the time, if not all of the time.

I have been paying for OneDrive storage and iCloud storage. I transferred the vast majority of the files in OneDrive to iCloud.

My thoughts:

OneDrive has a better payment structure. I can pay once a year and I even get a workplace discount. I wish I wasn’t stuck paying every month for iCloud.

iCloud Drive search works fine and having it on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac is very convenient when accessing my files.

I don’t like that iCloud maxes out at 2TB unless you resort to various workarounds.

It’s almost time for my OneDrive subscription to renew and I thought I would cancel it but after having some issues on my Mac where I was afraid I would delete my entire iCloud Drive contents, I’m leaning towards keeping the OneDrive subscription. I’m thinking to just use it as a backup source and continue to use iCloud as my main storage provider.

I also make heavy use of Google Drive (paid as well) but that’s mostly used for specific purposes. I also have external USB sticks and a T7 Shield SSD that is storing important files but I enjoy the convenience of cloud storage.

Overall, I enjoy iCloud Drive and find it worth paying for. It’s not without flaws though and I don’t recommend putting all your valuable eggs in the iCloud basket.

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Much appreciated…

 

[nutmac]

I switched from Dropbox. It's great for the most part, but there are few important caveats:

• iCloud+ is limited to 4TB, which requires subscribing to both Apple One Premier and iCloud+ 2TB. Dropbox too, is typically limited to 2TB ($9.99/month) or 3TB ($16.58/mont). But if you are sharing Dropbox with 3 users or more, you can get 5TB ($15/user/month) or unlimited ($24/user/month).
• iCloud syncs much slower than Dropbox.
• No versioning, although macOS does have versioning, courtesy of AFS (but not backed up to the cloud).
• No control over which files or folders can be made offline.
• With the optimized storage feature turned on, no control over which files or folders can be made local.
• File size limited to 50GB.

 

[circatee]

I switched from Dropbox. It's great for the most part, but there are few important caveats:

• iCloud+ is limited to 4TB, which requires subscribing to both Apple One Premier and iCloud+ 2TB. Dropbox too, is typically limited to 2TB ($9.99/month) or 3TB ($16.58/mont). But if you are sharing Dropbox with 3 users or more, you can get 5TB ($15/user/month) or unlimited ($24/user/month).
• iCloud syncs much slower than Dropbox.
• No versioning, although macOS does have versioning, courtesy of AFS (but not backed up to the cloud).
• No control over which files or folders can be made offline.
• With the optimized storage feature turned on, no control over which files or folders can be made local.
• File size limited to 50GB.

Ah, thanks for sharing the info about the versioning. I did not even think about that...!