When comparing SpiderOak vs WD My Cloud Ex2 Ultra 8TB, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud storage services?” SpiderOak is ranked 10th while WD My Cloud Ex2 Ultra 8TB is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
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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 Secure
Access is limited to the local network unless one opts to link devices or grant access via mycloud.com
Pro Easy to set up
You can set it up in less than 20 minutes, from unboxing to using.
Cons
Con The supported 3rd party apps are often out of date
The version of Joomla is ancient and there is no easy way to update to the latest version.
Con No calendar or task syncing program
There is no calendar or task program for those seeking to move from Google calendar