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# Comparisons

4 posts on comparisons.

- [Cloud storage or a transfer link? They are built for different verbs](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/cloud-storage-vs-file-transfer): Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive all produce a share link, so why use anything else? Because storage is for files you keep and transfer is for files you hand over — and one question tells you which you have.
- [Attachments or links? What the paperclip actually costs](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/email-attachments-vs-links): An attachment is not sent to a recipient, it is copied to every one of them and stored forever in mailboxes you do not control. When that is still the right call, and when it plainly is not.
- [SFTP or a transfer link? They are not competing](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/sftp-vs-transfer-links): One is for systems exchanging files on a schedule, the other for a person handing something to a person. The friction starts when either is used for the other's job — and dormant SFTP accounts are the risk nobody owns.
- [Choosing a file transfer service: eight questions worth asking](https://betterfiletransfer.com/blog/choosing-a-file-transfer-service): Every service takes a file and gives you a link, so the category looks interchangeable. The differences that matter are mostly not on the pricing page — here is what to compare, in the order the questions actually bite.

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