Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Synology Drive vs SpiderOak, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best personal file-syncing solutions?” SpiderOak is ranked 8th while Synology Drive is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
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PlatformsWindows; Linux; OSX; Android; iOS
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Pros
Pro Faster when used over your own local network
Pro Much higher storage capacity
Pro Control over your own data
Pro Faster when used over your own local network
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
Cons
Con Slower when used outside your home network
Con Not always as feature-rich as Google (but covers vast majority of use cases!)
Con Requires a hardware Synology DiskStation
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