Four mainstream cloud storage blood spell evaluation

Welcome to the New year, many of the domestic network has launched its own new version, then, the performance of these new versions? What new surprises will they bring to us in the new Year? In this article, small series on the Huashan on the sword, the current domestic most popular cool plate, Jinshan fast, Baidu network disk and 360 network plate for a round of horizontal evaluation. Since the current domestic network capacity has been up to TB level, so the project we are evaluating will not include capacity evaluation. So when the tyrants capacity of the tide past, users are concerned about what? Must be the user experience! In this article we only focus on the most closely related features of the user experience, such as whether the installation is intelligent, upload download speed, file sharing convenience, whether to provide a simple cloud storage and practical additional functions of the five items for evaluation.

One, the network disk installation, who is the most intelligent

The current software installation is more and more simple, the trend is more inclined to simple and quick. Of the four software in this article, the performance is basically the same for rapid installation, providing quick installation features that help users quickly complete the installation operation by default, with the addition of cool disks, the other three tools also provide a custom installation, allowing users to Installs the network disk to the specified path (Figure 1).

Second, upload the download, who is the fastest

Network disk upload download speed, directly related to the user can in the shortest possible time, upload their own files to the cloud server, or when needed, the cloud file download to the local. So, in terms of speed, how is the performance of the four major web trays? We tested in 4MB bandwidth environments, as shown in Figure 2:

From the above we can see that in the upload download, the overall performance of the network disk is not bad. Upload aspect, 360 network disk can reach 118kb/s, cool disk immediately followed, can reach 115kb/s, and Jinshan fast disk and Baidu network disk is slightly inadequate.

In terms of download speed, cool disk performance is significantly better than other network disk, reached near 4MB Broadband peak, for 487.3kb/s (Figure 3).

Next is 360 network disk, download speed reached about 269kb/s (Figure 4).

The performance is insufficient or Baidu network disk and Jinshan fast, its download speed only reached KB and 111kb/s (Figure 5, 6).

Third, file sharing, who is the most comfortable

When it comes to sharing, a friend who has experience knows that it is a feature we have to value when choosing a network, because it allows us to easily share our files with our friends. At present, the main factors that affect the user sharing experience are the way of file sharing and the support of single file sharing. In particular, the latter will greatly facilitate our quick sharing of the specified documents. As a simple example, if we go out and take a lot of pictures but just want to share one of them with a friend, it involves sharing a single photo, but unfortunately most of the nets don't support this kind of sharing.

Sharing function Comparison

In this is not difficult to see, in terms of sharing, Baidu Network and cool disk is the most extensive, in addition to support through the mail, SMS and friends to share, but also to support a more flexible way of sharing the outside chain. And in support of single photo sharing, the current four network disk, only cool disk and Baidu network disk support. In the cool disk and Baidu network plate, the user can at any time by right-clicking the file in the file list and choosing "Get outside" or "share through Baidu Cloud" in the right-click menu, get the outside chain of the file and share it (see Figure 7, 8).

Four, cloud storage, who is the most powerful

Speaking of cloud storage, seems to be a very contradictory topic, since the so-called network disk, then support cloud storage nature is its must have the function. However, the previous domestic network disk, in this respect almost all have a very strange phenomenon, that is, they upload files to the network, will be in the local simultaneously retain the full backup of the file.

The rise of the domestic cloud storage is imitation of foreign Dropbox software, the main feature is the cloud to save a copy, the local save A, is the two or more terminal synchronization. However, because of the limited local hard disk space, for infrequently used files, users may prefer to save directly to the cloud, but only when needed, and then download to the local.

Then, the application of the network disk, for this demand is satisfied with the user? After trial, the conclusion is as follows:

Cloud Storage Management Function comparison

In addition to the Jinshan fast disk does not support cloud storage management, the other three although support the function, but 360 network disk and Baidu network disk, although in the sync disk provides the function, but the user to display the file saved in the cloud, must download and install the corresponding cloud disk client (Baidu is called "Baidu Cloud Butler", 360 is "360 Cloud plate", As shown in Figure 9, the user experience is very bad because of the need for a user to install a client.

In contrast, a cool disk is much simpler, and it integrates file synchronization, cloud storage, and cloud file display into the same client. The user simply right-clicks the folder in the file list. Then in the pop-up menu to choose "Into the Cloud folder" (as shown in Figure 10), after the click will appear in the folder below the left "cloud" icon, cool disk will automatically delete the file saved in this machine, and only the file in the cloud. If you need to view the cloud file, just in the top right-hand corner of the cool disk file list, click the "Show Cloud File" button, and all the folders saved in the cloud will appear.

Five, additional function, who is the most intimate

In addition to the basic functions mentioned above, at present, a lot of network disk is also the spirit of "Think users want" service concept, launched a very favored by the user features, such as cool disk and Jinshan Quick Launch of the mistakenly deleted files and files of the previous version of the recovery function, it should be said that these features appear, Provides the best way for us to better manage our own files.

Network disk additional function comparison table

From this, we can see that the cool disk for each terminal platform to support the most comprehensive, users can use any mobile devices, and the computer constitutes a three-dimensional network, anytime and anywhere to share files, management data. Several other nets have also performed well, supporting most of the current mainstream platforms enough to meet the needs of most friends. Network disk additional function comparison table

六、四款, who should I choose?

Through the evaluation of this article, we have a good idea of the performance of the four network disk, it should be said that, in terms of practical features, cool disk in all aspects of the performance is relatively excellent, especially the provision of the Cloud folder function, is ahead of other clients. Next is 360 network disk and Jinshan network disk, with two major products of the owner in the domestic software industry and Internet security accumulated deep experience, two network disc performance is also a satin small set left a very deep impression. Baidu Network Disk due to enter the cloud storage area later, still need to continue to hone, hope that the next version can bring users a better experience!