The main driver for this is keeping my data more private, but I’ve found it also makes for a much better setup overall. When I look back at the last few years, the biggest shift for me is that I have moved away from paying for data services like Dropbox and Crashplan, and instead pay for local hardware and hardware services.

If you’re like me, you’re always evolving your setup. I find Dropbox more elegant than OneDrive, though.Nine years have passed since I first had enough data to care about. It might be a little more expensive (I would purchase the 1 TB option) but it seems more flexible.Īnd if the Dropbox route is good, why not go with OneDrive? I can buy a one year subscription to Office 365 for about 80% of the price of a year of 1 TB of Dropbox, and get five 1 TB accounts plus be able to use Office on my iPad, and more. With Dropbox I could tell it to back up all or some of my hard drive - the important stuff - and still have space left over to back up some files which are important to me but don't always sit on my hard drive.

I have some files on my home NAS which I would also like to back up remotely, but I don't want to keep them on my Mac all the time. Very simple, but it basically mirrors what is on my hard drive and no more. For an extra level of backup, I was ready to go with a service like Backblaze or CrashPlan, but recently Dropbox lowered their prices to a point where they are looking good, too.īackblaze would be a lot like a remote Time Machine backup.

I already have use a Time Capsule to back up my Mac's HD, and I have other important rarely used files on a NAS which is backed up nightly to attached hard drives. I would like to use some cloud storage to back up my Mac.

Crashplan vs dropbox