MEGA

This is a super size cloud storage man and with the extensions this is ultimate and the free storage is upto 50gb which is damm coooooooool you never ger those features anywhere .... MEGA is damm super

The server is quite fast, it has good security, good applications and you get rather nice storage space size for a free account.

For users seeking a stable, reliable, end-to-end encrypted file storage/sync service, Mega is probably a bad choice in the long run.

Firstly, it is a constant controversy magnet: from Kim DotCom (the founder) getting ousted and then making allegations against the service he created, to the discovery of fundamental security vulnerabilities, to Mega's servers getting hacked in November 2016, and on, and on... there are just too many confidence-deflating developments...

Secondly, the service is quite slow or, at best, sporadic. The client can be very slow even to index and upload files. The Firefox plugin seems completely broken (as of the time of this review).

Thirdly, the 50GB "for free" sounds just too good to be true (and things that sound too good to be true usually are). You should always exercise a healthy degree of skepticism when you're being offered something "for free" (e.g. Chrome and Gmail and Facebook and Yahoo! Mail are "free" because you pay for them with you privacy when every detail of what you do online is used to make ads - where will THAT data end up in 20 years?). "Freemium" services offer a little (e.g. 2-5 GB of storage) in the hope you'll like the service and buy more. 50 GB is an order of magnitude greater. For me that stretches believability.

Fourth, MEGA's predecessor, MegaUpload, was shut down - however unfairly - by request of US authorities acting ostensibly to protect Hollywood copyrighted material. It's more than likely MEGA is being used to share files illegally, and that therefore it will be targeted/closed in a similar way. It's heritage doesn't inspire confidence that the service will be around for the next 10 years, just exactly. Also, Mega's original founder, Kim Dotcom has alleged that the service is under the control now of people who have less than stellar reputations.

If you're looking for a stable, reliable, end-to-end/zero-knowledge encrypted file backup/sync service, you're better off paying at least a small amount for a reliable service without the security pitfalls and constant controversy.

Examples include:

• SpiderOak (US - very well established - Mac/Win/Linux - less good mobile)
• Tresorit (Switzerland, sync, hugely secure - Mac/Win/Linux/Android/iPhone - excellent but expensive)
• Sync.com (Canada, sync like Dropbox but with built in encryption - cheap, no Linux client)
• iDrive (US, backup and sync - cheap but no Linux client)

However, if you want to have a low price for lots of storage AND have encryption, a good choice is using a non-encrypted service together with Cryptomator, which is an open source encryption app for Linux, Mac and Windows and which lets you set different passwords for different folders (Use a password manager like KeePass to generate and remember them). Cryptomator is specifically designed to give you privacy in the cloud and its free and open source. You can easily pair it up with excellent and low cost services like pCloud (Switzerland) and Seafile.de (Germany), or any other sync service of your choice. Such services are likely to be around much longer than Mega, judging by how things have been going with it so far, but that's just my guess.

Private and secure and syncs across all of my devices

It could be better, but it is challenging to have end-to-end encryption, have applications for every platform, even smaller ones, and maintain user-friendlier features like search, which you do not take for granted when you start to deal with end to end encryption. It also has built-in functionality to play music, videos, view photos, or even PDFs and text files. When dealing with secure systems, they may not have software to this if not for built-in items Mega has.

It is not the best thing ever. Honestly, I would score it lower, but file storage for consumers that is truly end to end encrypted without using another application and can be used on all major platforms is very empty. It should be more like three stars, but part of what I do is test different solutions, and this gets 5 for being at least usable in a field that is horrific. Others are much easier from big tech, but if you are looking to secure your data, they are not a fit for you. There are other providers that do server-side encryption and maybe better than big tech, but you still do not control your data. Enterprises do have some options. For consumers, Mega is about as good as it gets and is foolproof, unlike some other solutions like Nextcloud, where the admin could make mistakes and not have E2E enabled or some providers do not even provide E2E until you purchase certain level package. None of that guesswork with Mega.

I am not the largest fan but other than some much pricier options, this is only one I could reliably give to an average user and feel halfway decent they would figure it out.

20GB free storage, which is more than the alternatives. Good upload speed.

MEGA has a problem with uploading a folder with hundreds of files. It gets stuck and never finishes, while Google Drive does that easily. The workaround I found is to zip the folder into one file, and then upload it.

It is an unreliable company in all aspects of the service called the cloud. Irregular download speed, dual download method (web->browser), frequent errors during transmission, many censorships, philosophy of open source, and so on.