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5 Reasons Why I’ve Just Been Sold on SugarSync over Dropbox!
One of my favorite aspects of social media is learning new things from subjects that you are interested in from people all around the world. Isn’t it great to know that someone half across the world is also trying to figure out whether to use Evernote or Springpad? For that matter, whether to use Mozy or Carbonite? Or how about introducing a new service to you like SugarSync over Dropbox? Well, the latter is exactly what happened to me just a couple of days ago by a gentleman, who is across the other side of the pond for me!
Kevin Tea is a journalist and marketing communications specialist, consultant, and author of Web2andmore.net. I first noticed his site when he talked about Springpad and Evernote. That, in part, tipped the scales for me and I had to finally publish the chart comparing the two services here and scratch it off my Someday/Maybe list (boy, did that feel good!). As I started fishing around Kevin’s site, I noticed lots of posts dedicated to comparing Dropbox and SugarSync.
I haven’t posted before on online backup providers in the past because I’ve been so content with Carbonite and Dropbox (the former for everything on my computer and the latter so I had instant access to specific files no matter where I might be). I did “mozy” away from Carbonite for a moment. Unfortunately, for Mozy, it was at the same time they decided to change their pricing plans to not only charge more, but offer less. (Hmmm…not too sure about that business model.) In any event, Dropbox is everywhere I need it to be, and with Selective Sync, I didn’t have to worry about personal files being on my work laptop, so again, why mess with something that just works – especially when it’s something as sensitive as your documents, photos, music, and videos?
That is until I did my due dilligence by reading all the posts on Kevin’s site about SugarSync and it’s comparisons to Dropbox. Then, I hopped over to SugarSync’s website and began reading their blog & the forums. Let me just say this very clearly: Holy Cow!!
Read Kevin’s posts (and another good comparison post here), but for now, let me just give you 5 very good reasons why you should consider moving from Dropbox to SugarSync:
- It automatically backs up your Android Camera Photos to every computer and the web!! That’s right, you read that correctly – it automatically backs up your camera photos!! No action is required by you!
- You can choose any folder, in any location on your computer – no specific syncing folder required – that’s right, any folder!
- You get 10 extra GB (60 altogether) for the same $9.99/month as you do with Dropbox (hey, that’s a good deal of data!)
- You can share photos over Facebook right within the program!
- You can email files directly to your SugarSync account!! That’s something I’ve been praying Dropbox would do for years without having to go through some guy’s hack he created!
dan gold, esq. 