I am deliberating whether to go with CrashPlan or Dropbox for my online backups. Crashplan currently has a special offer until 2th Dec for $46.20 a year. Dropbox Pro will cost $109 per year for 1TB.
Most of the files I will be backing up are my photos (plus some personal documents). This come to about 400GB at the moment. The data don't grow that much each year so I reckon it will grow max 50GB per year from this point onwards.
What would you guys suggest? Crashplan or DropBox Pro?
Cheers for any suggestions.
Two different tools for two different purposes.
CrashPlan is purely for backups - i.e. it works in a very traditional sense of how backups would, i.e. it will run periodically, look for changes and update that on its servers. It's not meant to be a real-time or collaboration service. Thus, it's cheaper and you get more storage for your buck.
DropBox is not a backup service - it's a collaboration platform which allows you to edit files with teammates on the cloud and hence everyone has access to the latest files. The benefit of DropBox, of course, is real-time access and sychronisation. If you have two PCs, for example, DropBox is great because you can sync your files between them.
My suggestion would be to go for the one which suits your needs better, there's no one-size-fits-all solution.