onedrive versus google drive

[cfdlab]

I have office 365 so get 1TB storage on onedrive and I also have a Gsuite account which gives me unlimited storage.

I want to use one of these but not sure which one is best.

Onedrive has two issues

* Seems to take more cpu/energy
* Does not preserve file attributes: E.g. I add a file on one computer with permissions
-rw-r--r--@ and when I see it on another computer to which it syncs, the same file has
-rwxr-xr-x which is totally not ok for me.

Google drive maintains these attributes. But it seems to use up more RAM which is not really an issue for me since I have a lot of RAM on all my machines.

Is there a way to fix the file attributes issue with onedrive ? I have seen some posts saying onedrive uses up too much battery. Do you have this issue also ?

What is the recommendation from other users in this matter ?

 

[zen]

I use OneDrive exclusively - like you, I have an Office 365 sub so get 1TB of OneDrive storage. I work almost exclusively in Office, and by keeping Office documents and files in OneDrive, the auto-save feature is on. OneDrive therefore is the perfect backup solution - I never have to save Office documents, and can never lose data as the auto-saving is continuous and iterative.

That benefit outweighs any performance concerns. I have no need for file attributes and permissions, so can't help there.