Click and Forget Cloud Storage
February 03, 2020
Click and Forget Cloud Storage
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Drive
We use Amazon Drive as our primary back up for essential files, videos, and photos. We do not have company-wide access to Amazon Drive. It is only available to the owners. We don't access the files very frequently, but it gives us peace of mind to know that our files are safe and accessible to us in case we have any unexpected IT problems.
- Amazon Drive automatically detects photos and videos in specific folders (that you choose). It will add them to Drive without any action from me.
- There is a desktop app where you can access all of your files (in addition to web-based access).
- The user interface for file storage isn't as intuitive as I would like.
- The plans were not 100% clear for me when I first purchased.
- We have greater peace of mind from having this cloud service.
- We have saved a couple of hours per year by having an automatic upload option.
- Dropbox and Box
Other platforms I would compare Amazon Drive to would be Dropbox and Box. Amazon Drive is excellent because the files do not have to live in a collaborative folder that syncs to every device (thus taking up space on each of those devices). Amazon Drive is an "upload and forget" program for our intents and purposes, where Dropbox/Box is used for collaboration. I feel like Dropbox may provide the best experience overall and maybe moving our archived/saved files to Dropbox in the future.
Do you think Amazon Drive (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Amazon Drive (discontinued)'s feature set?
No
Did Amazon Drive (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Amazon Drive (discontinued) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Amazon Drive (discontinued) again?
No