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Add to SafariWhen comparing SpiderOak vs HiDrive, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud storage services?” SpiderOak is ranked 10th while HiDrive is ranked 37th. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
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
Pro FTP and WebDAV
Supports FTP and WebDAV
Pro Based in the EU
HiDrive is operated by a German company, therefore European Union legislation on protection of personal data applies.
Cons
Con Support absent
Support doesn't answer questions (even from paying customers)
Con No sync
Impossible to sync files on PC to the cloud, or files on the cloud to PC
