We performed a comparison between Dropbox and ownCloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."We don't really use the collaboration features because we have only a small organization. Dropbox is valuable having the hard drive space available, and the access to be able to upload and access the content."
"Its usability is valuable. It is easy to use."
"One of the most useful features of Dropbox is its ease of use."
"I use the product to open files."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The small business version gave us ample capacity."
"The most valuable features I have found to be accessibility and ease of use."
"I think Dropbox is a good option for Windows users because it's easy to use in Windows and a user can access all other products and software."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"I would like to see integration with Office products, it would be very helpful."
"Sometimes, it takes a while to start Dropbox services and files are not synced."
"The interface could have bigger buttons."
"The problem with the storage is that you are only able to synchronize the information within the amount of storage that you have. It doesn't matter if you are accessing from a team member who has more storage, the limitations are with your storage."
"Dropbox could introduce some sort of a notification with respect to how much storage you have left out of what is purchased."
"They can do the scanning of viruses, and they can also do malware detection when they do the synchronization."
"The free storage can be increased."
"The arrangement of documents can be simplified. Personally, I am used to it, but for a new user, it might be a little confusing. It can maybe have a feature to allow people to collaborate or work on the same document at the same time. I'm just using it to load and access information, and I haven't faced many challenges. However, I have seen that the whole system or laptop slows down a bit when I am synchronizing files to Dropbox. I don't know if it is because of my system. It might be good if they can enhance the synchronization process so that we can specify that synchronization should be done after 30 minutes. In addition, synchronization should only be done for the documents that have been uploaded."
"Even with fast disks, it still takes a fair bit of time to write most schema changes to multi-GB tables."
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Dropbox is ranked 1st in Content Collaboration Platforms with 85 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 18th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Dropbox is rated 8.2, while ownCloud is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Dropbox writes "Seamless file synchronization across devices with user-friendly deployment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ownCloud writes "Self-hosted file sync tool used to deploy custom web UIs. ". Dropbox is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, Citrix ShareFile, Google Workspace and Office 365, whereas ownCloud is most compared with Kiteworks.
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