![]() The speed for adding files to the cloud is capped to 80 MB/s for Premium and Business users and 40 MB/s for those on a Free plan. However, with the practically unlimited download speed supported by pCloud, the file opens as quickly as the items I keep on my laptop. ![]() You would expect that it would take some time since the file is stored in the cloud and not locally. Whenever I need to access and work on a file, I double click it and it opens straight away. It’s true that I still need to be connected to the internet to use it but I have access to Wi-Fi most of the time anyway. To date, I still use a 128 GB MacBook Air, and I don’t really need to upgrade to a bigger SSD because I use pCloud Drive as a virtual hard disk. This is why I had to find an alternative solution and I came across the pCloud desktop app, pCloud Drive (and that happened way before I joined the pCloud team). Back then they didn’t have selective sync, so I had to either pretty much keep everything on my computer anyway, or struggle with the fact that it took quite a while to get to my files in the cloud. I had used Dropbox before that and I knew that it wasn’t an option. I had to choose between the 128 GB and 256 GB versions, both of which were suboptimal. To get what I was looking for, I had to sacrifice the hard disk space. ![]() ![]() At that time I was freelancing, running from meeting to meeting and traveling a lot – so I needed the perfect combination of size, weight and battery life. A few years ago, I made the jump from a Windows computer to a Mac. ![]()
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