![]() ![]() The lowest standard tier for SugarSync is the “ Starter Plan” which comes with 30 GB of storage for $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year. You’ll notice many of these similarities from the get-go, from the pricing tiers and storage allotments for the free version ( which is kind of buried for SugarSync) to the friendly Getting Started tutorial which promises free additional storage for completing the steps and referring friends. There is a lot in common between Dropbox and Sugarsync, simply because both of these champs got a lot of things right. ![]() Check out groovyBox if you want to use your Dropbox account as a cloud music player. Well, we waited and waited for Dropbox to catch up with SugarSync and add this feature, but it still hasn’t happened. Update: In this review, I note Dropbox’s inability to stream music as a playlist as one of it’s drawbacks compared to SugarSync. See the update for a summary of this review and a roundup of some of the good points raised in the discussion. Update: It’s been quite some time since I originally posted this review, and commenters have done a groovy job of chiming in with some great feedback and testimonials. So, without any further ado, here’s an investigation of what those differences are, and if they add up to SugarSync being a Dropbox killer. But it seems like SugarSync has a couple of things to offer that Dropbox doesn’t. Granted, this chart is somewhat dated, as Dropbox has closed the gap on at least the business plans front with Dropbox for Teams. Dropbox and the other cloud storage/folder syncing heavyweights: MobileMe, Box.net, Carbonite, and Mozy.Īs expected, most of the checkmarks were grouped beneath the first two columns, with SugarSync winning out with a few key features, namely: backup to any folder, upload/sync via email, selectively sync any folder, simple editing of files through the web, send files of any size, stream music to a web browser or smartphone, business plans and support for BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile. I must not be the only one who feels this way, because right there on the front page of SugarSync’s website is a link to a comparison chart between SugarSync vs. At first blush, SugarSync struck me as the Dropbox alternative that I never asked for. So, when an assignment to review SugarSync came across my desk ( not really, MrGroove didn’t give me a desk…), I raised a skeptical eyebrow. I’m a Dropbox man-always have been, always will be. Best security practice for both: encrypt your important documents using TrueCrypt or BoxCryptor. SugarSync hasn’t gotten any heat, but likely suffers from the same vulnerabilities. Dropbox has been featured in the news for a few security SNAFUs.Many users report that Dropbox has faster upload / sync speeds than SugarSync.Dropbox requires a third-party app, such as groovyBox. SugarSync has native support for music playback on the web and for smartphones.Dropbox allows you to share files up to 1 GB via public links or email.Free storage – SugarSync: 5 GB, Dropbox: 2 GB.Anchorite.A feature-by-feature Dropbox vs.Adobe Changes Licensing, Causes Non-Profit Scare, Probably OK Though.Exchange 2010: Moderation and Nested Bypass.Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 with MDT 2010 and AIK 2010.Church IT Roundtable Recap Spring 2010, Saddleback Church.Jimmy Wales & Nicholas Carr debate at DePauw University Live Blog.Kudos to MozyPro for excellent and fast support, though! Hopefully I won’t run into the SQL issue Jason’s discovered, but I don’t see any indication of that yet. Because I’m throttling the uploads during the day very heavily, it will probably take maybe a week (total guesstimate) to finish the initial backup, although it may be less as I’ve gotten up to 900 kbps overnight with my first test. The backup size went from 2.2 GB (already backed up) up to another 14 GB of stuff to back up a lot of that is the Exchange store but SQL isn’t tiny. I would assume the client could at least check the registry for Exchange and SQL Server and figure out where the data files were located, since on servers it’s common to install these data stores in non-standard locations to balance disk activity over multiple spindles. I don’t know if it normally does or if you always have to select the locations manually. I expected MozyPro’s client to find these data stores by selecting the preset Backup Sets just like the other pre-installed Backup Sets do, but that didn’t work in this case. The first one worked I had to edit the backup set and select the folders with the Exchange and SQL data stores manually. I called MozyPro yesterday for support, and their Lead Support Engineer got back to me within a half-hour or so (I didn’t time it exactly) with some things to try. I wrote yesterday that MozyPro wasn’t finding Exchange or SQL files when I selected those backup sets. ![]()
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