We performed a comparison between Microsoft OneDrive 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."The stability of Microsoft OneDrive is very good, it is reliable. There were multiple instances where I had lost my valuable data on hard drives in several other places. However, with Microsoft OneDrive, I've never lost a single file."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again."
"It was extremely easy to setup."
"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."
"The most valuable feature is to be able to modify the file online and keep it stored on the cloud, since it is not necessary to download it to make modifications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."
"Ability to share documents."
"I think it’s probably the best self-hosted file sync tool on the market."
"It is not very stable because there are a lot of bugs."
"Performance is an issue when sharing a large number of files in a single folder."
"I think it should be more user-friendly with more tutorials on the full scale of the program."
"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."
"The file structure insight could be made more flexible like for creating more flexible folders."
"The website could be improved. Sometimes I try to login and the website has issues, I can't retrieve my documents."
"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."
"It takes too long for OneDrive to synchronize various applications, especially when you are saving office data. It also requires too much bandwidth."
"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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Microsoft OneDrive is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 19 reviews while ownCloud is ranked 17th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Microsoft OneDrive is rated 8.2, while ownCloud is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft OneDrive writes "A transparent and self-explanatory storage system for data and files". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ownCloud writes "Self-hosted file sync tool used to deploy custom web UIs. ". Microsoft OneDrive is most compared with SharePoint, Dropbox, Box, Atlassian Confluence and Citrix ShareFile, whereas ownCloud is most compared with Kiteworks.
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