Hi,
I was thinking to organize the few books I have stored on various cloud services and upload some more, so I made an upload speed test.
[Edit]: Too Long /Wont' Read: Just look at the attached picture for a quick test uploading 100mb file on a 5 or 6 mbps upload connection. Would like to see other people's results. For me, google and box.com uploads were good while onedrive and dropbox had interruptions every few seconds. Damn I do write too much, what am I doing on a reading forum??? lol. [End of edit]
Since "mobile" reading is sometimes cloud reading, I believe posting the results might be useful for others too.
My main concern is the very low upload speed my ISP offers (VDSL connection with 50 Mbps DL and only 5 or 6 Mbps UL, I'm not sure), this is the only parameter I was interested in.
I have accounts on:
- OneDrive (30 GB + 100 GB temporary Samsung bonus up to 2017)
- OneDrive for business (1 TB)
- Google Drive (15 GB)
- Box.com (50 GB)
- Dropbox.com (2.5 GB)
For testing I used a dummy 100MB file and the odrive utility (which can sync all these cloud drives with local folders). Basically, after I downloaded to desktop the file from some random ISP test server, I moved it to the local box.com folder, then to dropbox.com local folder and so one, while odrive was doing its job in the background deleting the file from the previous cloud drive and uploading it to the next one. I measured the upload speed with DUMeter utility and with Windows 10's task manager (Performance tab). The results were similar but DuMeter also offers a grid (in the picture the vertical lines are 30s apart).
I know that a "burst" 100MB tranfer might be different than transferring 100 files 1MB each but I just wanted a quick estimation. Maybe the interruptions OneDrive and Dropbox had (see below) would have a lower impact if transferring multiple small files.
In order to exclude that deleting the file from the previous drive as some impact on upload speed to the next one, I did a final move of the test file again to box.com (which was the first drive tested) but the result was the same and the deletion of the file from the previous cloud drive cannot even be noticed on the chart. I also checked if moving from a google drive account to other google drive account (or one-drive one-drive) has any influence, but it hasn't (the file is of course re-uploaded from my PC and not moved directly between accounts).
Actually I realize that would be a nice idea, in order to move books between accounts, it would be nicer and faster to be able to connect the accounts directly between them. Otherwise one must re-upload the file each time if moving it from an account to another. I know that google drive has the share functionality (and the others too) but would this be possible to implement while also syncing locally, without re-download / re-upload?
Anyway here are the results (approximate average speed and time to upload a single 100mb file). I only listed the time for the last tests. Time is in decimal format (e.g. 2,75 mins = 2 minutes and 45 seconds)
initial move from desktop to Box.com: 5,9 mbps -> 2,5 min
dropbox: 2,5-3mbps -> 6 min
google drive: 4-6 mbps -> 2,5 min
google drive other account: 2.45 min
onedrive free: interruptions -> 3,8 min
onedrive for business: smaller interruptions -> 3.3 min
Dropbox was for me the worst, with intermittent transfer (transferring for 10 seconds then stalling for another 10)- as seen in the left side of the picture.
Also both OneDrive services (free/paid) had interruptions in upload but shorter than Dropbox, especially the business/paid version. Still it puzzles me that even the paid version of OneDrive has worse transfer than Google Drive and Box.com and only slightly better than the free version.
Google Drive and Box.com were the best, with basically constant 5,9-6 mbps upload speed. The only difference was that box.com had a single short interruption just at the beginning but then the transfer was constant.
In the attached picture you can see, from left to right:
Dropbox .. . . . . . Google Drive... Google Drive ....... OneDrive (incomplete- it didn't fit in the screen but I had to capture the ugly dropbox image).
Green means upload, red - download, yellow -both.
Box.com didn't fit in the image but it was simmilar to google drive except a very short "hiccup" at the beginning.
I hope this is useful. If somebody has some similar tests it would be interesting to see if the results are different in other countries (I'm located in Romania and my ISP is Telekom).
I was thinking to organize the few books I have stored on various cloud services and upload some more, so I made an upload speed test.
[Edit]: Too Long /Wont' Read: Just look at the attached picture for a quick test uploading 100mb file on a 5 or 6 mbps upload connection. Would like to see other people's results. For me, google and box.com uploads were good while onedrive and dropbox had interruptions every few seconds. Damn I do write too much, what am I doing on a reading forum??? lol. [End of edit]
Since "mobile" reading is sometimes cloud reading, I believe posting the results might be useful for others too.
My main concern is the very low upload speed my ISP offers (VDSL connection with 50 Mbps DL and only 5 or 6 Mbps UL, I'm not sure), this is the only parameter I was interested in.
I have accounts on:
- OneDrive (30 GB + 100 GB temporary Samsung bonus up to 2017)
- OneDrive for business (1 TB)
- Google Drive (15 GB)
- Box.com (50 GB)
- Dropbox.com (2.5 GB)
For testing I used a dummy 100MB file and the odrive utility (which can sync all these cloud drives with local folders). Basically, after I downloaded to desktop the file from some random ISP test server, I moved it to the local box.com folder, then to dropbox.com local folder and so one, while odrive was doing its job in the background deleting the file from the previous cloud drive and uploading it to the next one. I measured the upload speed with DUMeter utility and with Windows 10's task manager (Performance tab). The results were similar but DuMeter also offers a grid (in the picture the vertical lines are 30s apart).
I know that a "burst" 100MB tranfer might be different than transferring 100 files 1MB each but I just wanted a quick estimation. Maybe the interruptions OneDrive and Dropbox had (see below) would have a lower impact if transferring multiple small files.
In order to exclude that deleting the file from the previous drive as some impact on upload speed to the next one, I did a final move of the test file again to box.com (which was the first drive tested) but the result was the same and the deletion of the file from the previous cloud drive cannot even be noticed on the chart. I also checked if moving from a google drive account to other google drive account (or one-drive one-drive) has any influence, but it hasn't (the file is of course re-uploaded from my PC and not moved directly between accounts).
Actually I realize that would be a nice idea, in order to move books between accounts, it would be nicer and faster to be able to connect the accounts directly between them. Otherwise one must re-upload the file each time if moving it from an account to another. I know that google drive has the share functionality (and the others too) but would this be possible to implement while also syncing locally, without re-download / re-upload?
Anyway here are the results (approximate average speed and time to upload a single 100mb file). I only listed the time for the last tests. Time is in decimal format (e.g. 2,75 mins = 2 minutes and 45 seconds)
initial move from desktop to Box.com: 5,9 mbps -> 2,5 min
dropbox: 2,5-3mbps -> 6 min
google drive: 4-6 mbps -> 2,5 min
google drive other account: 2.45 min
onedrive free: interruptions -> 3,8 min
onedrive for business: smaller interruptions -> 3.3 min
Dropbox was for me the worst, with intermittent transfer (transferring for 10 seconds then stalling for another 10)- as seen in the left side of the picture.
Also both OneDrive services (free/paid) had interruptions in upload but shorter than Dropbox, especially the business/paid version. Still it puzzles me that even the paid version of OneDrive has worse transfer than Google Drive and Box.com and only slightly better than the free version.
Google Drive and Box.com were the best, with basically constant 5,9-6 mbps upload speed. The only difference was that box.com had a single short interruption just at the beginning but then the transfer was constant.
In the attached picture you can see, from left to right:
Dropbox .. . . . . . Google Drive... Google Drive ....... OneDrive (incomplete- it didn't fit in the screen but I had to capture the ugly dropbox image).
Green means upload, red - download, yellow -both.
Box.com didn't fit in the image but it was simmilar to google drive except a very short "hiccup" at the beginning.
I hope this is useful. If somebody has some similar tests it would be interesting to see if the results are different in other countries (I'm located in Romania and my ISP is Telekom).
