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Sirtel · 10-13-2018, 12:07 PM

My data has exceeded the limits of any free storage for a long while now. For my Calibre library (over 30 GB), photos and documents I use Dropbox (1 TB, 10€ per month). There's just nothing better for my needs. For my e-mail I use the 100 GB Google Drive plan (2€ per month), because my mailbox is about 40 GB by now (I don't delete old messages, there have been many occasions I needed to look up something from the past). I tried the OneDrive free plan a few years ago, but as was said in a previous post, OneDrive doesn't play nice with Calibre. I've also tried SugarSync, but they're more expensive than Dropbox, so no point really.

I've tried some of the more obscure clouds as well (Copy, Box etc), but never relied solely on those and all of them have gone out of business by now.

And of course I keep local back-up copies too, on external drives.

10-13-2018, 12:07 PM	#55
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,577 Karma: 240526511 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	My data has exceeded the limits of any free storage for a long while now. For my Calibre library (over 30 GB), photos and documents I use Dropbox (1 TB, 10€ per month). There's just nothing better for my needs. For my e-mail I use the 100 GB Google Drive plan (2€ per month), because my mailbox is about 40 GB by now (I don't delete old messages, there have been many occasions I needed to look up something from the past). I tried the OneDrive free plan a few years ago, but as was said in a previous post, OneDrive doesn't play nice with Calibre. I've also tried SugarSync, but they're more expensive than Dropbox, so no point really. I've tried some of the more obscure clouds as well (Copy, Box etc), but never relied solely on those and all of them have gone out of business by now. And of course I keep local back-up copies too, on external drives.