3rd on the list of online data storage services is hubiC
The offer of the French host OVH has at least one clear point, its files are hosted on its data centers in France. For anyone who is allergic to the claws of the US NSA, this is a point that can tip in his favour.
Weaknesses of HubiC
HubiC experiences slowness of flows and instabilities of the PC and mobile customers; mobile synchronization is not always done, while on PC, service unavailability messages are quite common.
On the other hand, hubiC offers unbeatable price plans: 10 € / year for 100 GB, and … 10 TB for 50 € / year!
What is unfortunate is that all the intermediate plans are gone.
Unfortunately, hubiC offers slow speeds (good speed is essential for storing 10 TB!), Its web interface is less austere, and mobile client a little less responsive.
online data storage services: 4th – MEGA
The New Zealand host founded by Kim Dotcom after the setbacks of Megaupload with the US justice is losing momentum. Mega offers very unsatisfactory speeds, and a web interface a little too much gas plant spoil the pleasure of use of this host.
Good point: a big rebel against the American seizure of the web, Kim Dotcom promises that MEGA does not have its servers hosted in the USA. That’s all we know
In addition, MEGA guarantees that all data stored at home is encrypted. What give – in theory – a hard time to the authorities who would seek to acquire them.
As for prices, they are far from competitive: count 60 € / year for 200 GB minimum, and 120 € / year for 1 TB. To go elsewhere.
Online data storage services: Offline – iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive
These three online data storage services clearly host their data in the US.
But above all, because they do not meet the needs that I mentioned at the beginning of the article: iCloud is incomprehensible; when you install the client on the host PC, you do not have access to a folder to synchronize its data. Despite research on the web, I could not understand why.
iCloud is mainly used to synchronize multimedia data and iOS applications between different machines using Apple’s mobile system.
On the other hand, everything that comes out of this framework is much more complicated to synchronize with (if not impossible).
Google Drive, meanwhile, has tariff plans that do not suit me: 24 € / month for 100 GB (capacity too low) and 120 € / month for 1 TB (oversized for me). An intermediate plan would have been very appreciable.
As for OneDrive, I remember especially that it is the champion of the software instabilities, as much on PC as on mobile. Slow throughout, random synchronization and a mobile client from the Microsoft.
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