SugarSync Vs DropBox : File synchronization war is on!

File synchronization market is picking up really fast with the introduction of two products which have really stirred up the internet. Those days are gone when we used Microsoft Briefcase to ensure that all the files are in sync between two computers (generally office and home). Now we have SugarSync and Dropbox or may be few other file synchronization services, which make our lives way simpler than what it used to be.

I was pretty impressed with SugarSync when I first reviewed it however then I saw Dropbox which equally impressed me. However there are few things which put one ahead of the other. Let’s see those points and find out that which product is a better choice at this point of time. I’m stressing on current time because both the software/services are in beta and we never know that which one will start offering better services in near future.

Let’s find out that which service is a better choice at this time…

Supported platforms : Both the services have taken care of Windows and Mac users however both have failed to satisfy Linux users. However SugarSync is one step ahead of Dropbox as it currently supports windows based mobile phones & blackberry too (it makes more sense to support blackberry from the day 1 as file synchronization is much required for business persons and blackberry is quite popular amongst them), thus giving you a better reach to your important documents.

User Interface : I was pretty impressed with SugarSync’s interface however Dropbox has done an excellent job as far the interface is concerned, Reason is simple, they don’t have an interface at all! They’ve beautifully integrated itself in the Finder (for mac) and thus gives you a feeling that you are accessing a local folder only and behind the scenes it synchronizes the folders.

Features : SugarSync wins this quite easily. Most of the features which are in the coming soon section of DropBox are already present in the current feature set of SugarSync. DropBox is currently offering free account of 2 Gb and doesn’t give option of upgrading but on the other hand SugarSync is giving the option of upgrading up to 250 Gb of space.

Memory usage : In this Dropbox wins the competition. Dropbox is integrated in Finder and runs in background so, it doesn’t use much of system memory and currently is standing at 20 Mb only however SugarSync is currently showing 35 Mb usage of system memory. Although that doesn’t make huge difference for those who’ve got higher amount of RAM in the computer but for those who are still using less amount of RAM, they would definitely love to save some RAM.

Overall rating and reviews :

As far as features are concerned SugarSync wins this battle convincingly however, I really loved the idea of incorporating the uploader directly in the Windows Explorer or Finder and I believe that SugarSync should take a similar approach and that’ll surely make life simple for it’s users.

Have you tried SugarSync or DropBox ? If yes, then which one did you like the most ?