I’ve blogged before about choosing a cloud storage provider: Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs Google Drive. There’s a new option on the market now: Copy, and I’ve been giving them a spin this week.
One of the immediate attractions is that their basic, free account offers 15GB of storage space, compared with 2GB on Dropbox, for example. As a limited time offer they will also give you and me an extra 5GB if you sign-up from this referral URL: https://copy.com?r=SJuusn
So far I’m impressed. The software does everything I want it to:
- Windows and Android applications
- Easy Web access
- Selective sync
- Ability to share files and folders
- Bandwidth throttling
Of course, I need to look into the privacy issues but this may be a contender for moving me away from a Dropbox subscription.
UPDATE: I’ve now moved away from Copy and back to a paid account Dropbox.
I gave Copy a good run, using it for about 5 months but in the end it was taking far too long to synchronise, particular after reorganising folders within my Copy drive.
One day I reorganised a few folders, perhaps with a couple of hundred files in it. After two days of synchronising I gave up, uninstalled Copy and migrated everything back to Dropbox using Mover.io.