![]() I’ve also added Microsoft Sharepoint Online since this is also available with ExpanDrive but not listed on their website. Admittedly, at the end of the day, it is just a WebDav connection anyway, which means Odrive can also connect to an OwnCloud server, but I’ve added it since it is an explicit connection option for ExpanDrive. ![]() 01/11/16 – EDIT:Īfter testing both systems I’ve noted that ExpanDrive does not list OwnCloud on its list of supported cloud platforms, but it does have a native integration for it. Let me know what you think about them in the comments. In the meantime, I’d love to hear your thoughts on them if you have used them. I will write another blog soon with my thoughts on ExpanDrive and Odrive as I test them. I’m going to test ExpanDrive first because I really like the potential it offers through the attached drive approach, but I just don’t know if it can do everything I want and need it to do. That said, there are a lot of questions I still have about ExpanDrive that I just can’t find answers to on their website. So from the looks of the pro list from my perspective, Odrive outweighs ExpanDrive with a lot more pro’s (or at least a lot more for my uses). Has the widest range of cloud integrations, including all the clouds I already use.Not something I was originally looking for, but making available the files from social channels could be useful, particularly for Facebook Live videos.Unlimited testing with the free version.Has built in encryption in the premium version.Potentially cheaper if bought with lifetime upgrades.I like the attached external drive model for each cloud.No info on website but according to Twitter this is coming in Version 6.īased purely on the comparison table from the information available on each platforms website I am of two minds. Yes, choose how long before local files are removed after accessing them and choose to keep local versions of files if needed. (Not on website, found screenshot on Twitter).īuilt-in AES-256 zero knowledge encryption with premium version. Virtual external drives are created on your computer for each cloud platform and behave similarly to an attached USB drive or a network drive. It’s a desktop sync app that uses placeholders locally for all your files. Once off $49.95 or$74.95 with lifetime upgradesįiles are accessed through their respective cloud folder inside the Odrive folder on your computer. After a bit of a conversation on Twitter, I was able to get most of the information that was missing from their website so I’ve tried to break them down as fairly as possible in the below table based on what their website says and noting what things came from Twitter. This was a little bit of a challenge to do fairly pre-testing because the ExpanDrive website really doesn’t list many features beyond the basic file access, transfer and supported storage options. So let’s actually compare their pricing and features. Odrive: Unlimited use of the free edition which makes available many core features but does leave out some important ones like encryption that come with a monthly subscription fee.īased on those options alone I prefer Odrive since I can test drive it as long as I want. So my options for testing them out and purchasing are:ĮxpanDrive: 30 day trial with flat purchase fee. Which one is better, though? I don’t want to fork out cash for something I don’t use in the long run, and ultimately I’d like to use it across a few computers without paying extra. In addition to that, they enable access in the same way to multiple cloud storage providers such as Amazon Drive, Google Drive, Amazon S3, OneDrive, Box and more. Odrive and ExpanDrive take this and say ok, how about we just synchronise the files we need as we need them and until we need them they live in the cloud, thus freeing up lots of local disk space. The downside of this is that when you do need some of those files you chose to stop synchronising you have to either re-sync them or download them from the web interface, neither of which is ideal. ![]() If your local hard drive gets full then you need to look at what you can remove by selectively synchronising the files you need and not the ones you don’t. What this means is that you can do away with file synchronisation and the need to store local copies of files.Īs an example, a typical Dropbox setup would have your Dropbox folder on your computer where you store everything. Well, Odrive and ExpanDrive both provide unified access to your cloud providers as though they were local drives on your computer. That is the question I am presently trying to work out, but to what end? Check out my review! I’ll be updating this article soon to represent a comparison between Odrive and ExpanDrive 6 UPDATE: This comparison was based on ExpanDrive 5. ExpanDrive 6 has been released with some big changes. ![]()
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