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Box Drive — Unlimited cloud storage, now on your desktop 📦
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@rrhoover Nice congrats to the Box team! At KYŌ we use Box for all business storage and it's been a great solution. They just need a solid integration with Basecamp!
@rrhoover @katie_roof We're using Box, and the main reason for this is price; I personally find Dropbox UX more pleasurable frankly speaking.
@vladzima @rrhoover @katie_roof Agreed. Where I work we have an enterprise Box account, and their recent UI updates are great, but I still prefer Dropbox's UI and use it for my personal files.
@rrhoover Using OneDrive mostly - as 1TB is included in a standard office sub. For personal photos its Amazon (unlimited free with prime). Creative Cloud for any design work.
Google Drive is out - too cumbersome, so is Dropbox - too little space. Never used Box.
I really appreciate Box as a company that has been great at pushing the cloud to new heights over the years. Beyond the unlimited storage benefit for some Business subscribers, I don't see anything new here, but that doesn't diminish its value. It feels like the placeholder links that Dropbox SmartSync offers. I guess Box is proposing that their "instant access file streaming" is faster or more reliable than other services?
For on-demand file access, I find Odrive is the best in the business. And because it works simultaneously with most cloud service providers, I think it has some unique advantages. Obviously, for people who use only one cloud service, the native apps provide greater simplicity and no middleman, but for multiple service users, it's hard to beat Odrive. Odrive even works with personal/self-hosted cloud services such as OwnCloud/NextCloud.
We recently ditched third party cloud providers and moved all of our critical data to NextCloud hosted on our NAS and linked it to Odrive so that we can see and access everything stored on the NAS without having to store all of it on our individual machines. Having access to 3TB+ worth of files on a 512GB laptop while traveling has been invaluable. Hopefully, NextCloud will introduce Odrive-esque on-demand functionality at some point. Resilio Sync is pretty good in the on-demand space as well, but not as user-friendly and powerful as NC+OD.
UPDATE: I just installed the Box Drive client to test it out and it is really smooth and a great experience. If I was only using Box, I'd definitely appreciate what they have developed here. It is not better than my (secure and personally controlled) NextCloud + Odrive setup, but I definitely see the benefits for Box's core users.
From the blog post:
Box Drive is the only unlimited cloud drive built for the enterprise, giving you infinite access to all of your files in Box, by streaming them directly to your desktop. That way, you have access to ALL of your content – even tens of millions of files – right at your fingertips, without putting the hurt on your hard drive.
Same concept as the Google Drive File Stream App that is currently in the early adopter program. More info and requests to join are found at https://gsuite.google.com/campai...
Looks interesting but how is this different from the dropbox desktop client besides the "unlimited space"?
Box acquired medical imaging tech that I'd like to see in the desktop viewer. Inbuilt DICOM viewer - hell yeah! Check out boxdicom.com
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