Mega NZ is encrypted on a level that iCloud, Onedrive, Google Drive, and others are not. It is end-to-end encrypted and it can only be unlocked with a single encryption key. They do not store these encryption keys anywhere. If you lose your password, you lose access to your stuff. This makes it MORE secure. Use a password manager or write the password down somewhere safe (or at least write down a cryptic clue to help you remember the password) and you will be fine. They also have a backup recovery key that you can save.Besides that, Mega NZ is by far the best cloud storage option available. It works amazingly for both cloud backup AND cloud storage, which are (slightly) different things.I have found iCloud and OneDrive to both lack ease and flexibility when it comes to distinguishing between that you want to keep saved locally on your device and just have backups saved in the cloud, vs what you want to keep solely in the cloud without having it actually saved on your own device. OneDrive gave me a massive headache trying to deal with this. iCloud is not user friendly at all, and Google Drive doesn't really work as a computer backup tool, it's just cloud storage. With Mega I like that it is easy to link an existing folder on your computer to an existing folder the cloud and let the software sync them by uploading or downloaing whatever is necessary. If I need to, I can then just simply unlink the folders without losing either my local saves or my cloud saves. I can happily delete stuff on one end knowing I won't lose it on the other end. You can also directly upload or download files/folders to and from cloud from any device a with ease. The whole thing is just incredibly user-friendly and great if you still value having local saves and you just want to automatically back up certain folders, but you also want to have certain things in the cloud that aren't saved locally at all.It's great that you can easily have things organised differently on the cloud than they are on your device.It's easy to upload specific photos from my phone to a specific folder on my laptop without having to sync my whole damn camera roll. There also is a camera roll sync option if you want.I like how secure it is. I was initially looking for a place to store 70gb of personal photographs from the last 10 years of my life - they're safe on an extrernal drive but I wanted them backed up somewhere in case something happens to that drive. All the mainstream options feel way too insecure to upload that much personal content to. I was honestly pleasantly surprised to find that it also works well for creating synced backups of local folders on my laptop and for transferring stuff from my phone to my laptop.The reviews here seem to all be people either getting mad because they lost their password, or getting mad because they didn't realise that the extra free storage you get is time limited and after that, you lose that space. Seriously, just pay attention to the thousand warnings they give you about storing your password and you will be fine. If you want to be able to access your stuff without your password, just go and use a less secure service.
