On my laptop (an old Ultrabook), GDrive Sync and Backup will literally take 30+ minutes on "process files" (while using 30% cpu and high disk I/O) every time I reboot.

Also its UI (IIRC written in Python) often fails to load (give you a blank box).

Dropbox still has the best sync tech and is the only one that can handle deep and numerous file hierarchies. The rest have better pricing and integrations like email/productivity apps.

Actually, Resilio is not any slower than Dropbox. Syncthing is also faster thans any commercial offering I ever tried. Even Nextcloud sync is fast after an initial init.

What exactly are you referring to? Upload speed? That's not the issue.

Dropbox is the best at crawling a very complex directory structure with millions of files and diffing it efficiently with the server and other clients, and then transferring all the individual changes. Nothing else comes close. And their write-ups show the work involved:

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-en...

Indexing. Dropbox is slower than Resilio in my experience, and for shares with 100k-1M files, many small.

But also throughput is good.

Can confirm. I have to move all my node projects to Dropbox for this particular reason.

Are you putting `node_modules` in cloud storage?

Yes. I knew you could use git and install modules on each end separately, but putting the whole thing in sync is just more convenient for some personal toy projects.

Thanks for the tip!