Alternative to OneDrive and Google Drive.We always recommend to our clients to have 3rd party backups to protect their files, regardless if they’re using Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox, for 30 days is not long enough, especially when dealing with accidental or malicious behaviour coming directly from a staff member in their organisation. Unfortunately, Google Drive doesn’t have the same aforementioned capabilities. OneDrive has a similar feature called Files Restore, on both of its personal and business plans, with a maximum limit of 30 days. One great thing to know about is that Dropbox also has the feature of allowing you to revert to a particular version of your entire account after encountering an issue such as a virus attack. Google Drive keeps past versions of files up to 30 days or until you reach 100 versions. But for OneDrive business accounts, you are allowed to store up to 500 versions of a particular file. The version history of OneDrive is limited to 30 days on personal accounts. Dropbox offers version history for up to 30 days on its personal plans and 180 days on its business plans. This cloud storage feature allows you to revert the files to their previous versions. These files aren’t kept in your Dropbox account, so they don’t take up any space in your storage. Meanwhile, Google Drive lets you upload files up to 5TB in size, that is if these documents, spreadsheets, and presentations are not under Google’s file limits.ĭropbox has a special option called Dropbox Transfer which allows you to send files up to 100MB in size by default or up to 250GB with the Creative Tools add-on. Your recipient won’t need to sign in to a Microsoft account to see the files. OneDrive lets you upload and share files up to 250GB.

And it’s in the maximum file size that you’re allowed to upload. There are some differences among the three providers when it comes to sharing large files.

You can’t find this in Google Drive unless you have a business account. Each service also gives you the option to determine whether a recipient can edit or view a particular file.ĭropbox and OneDrive allow you to password-protect your files and even set expiration dates providing temporary access. Creating shareable links are present in all of the three. All three providers make file sharing simple.

Google drive vs onedrive vs dropbox