Morro Data CloudNAS Reviews

Morro Data CloudNAS

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Cloud storage software for managing files and user access

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Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good product for keeping large amounts of data in the cloud and still having files on-site...

Reviewed on 13/04/2018

It allowed us to go from using a massive server to store all of our data, to a simple Hyper-V...

It allowed us to go from using a massive server to store all of our data, to a simple Hyper-V environment that allowed us to minimize our HDD storage. Instead of having to store all of our files on our servers here, we are able to make the NAS big enough to store what we need and some extra, while being able to keep the data that we don't use very often in cloud, but still accessible for when we do need it. There are a few things that can be worked on to make it even better, but this software is a great addition to any company that may have storage need limitations or if they need to keep files synced between multiple sites. We also have a second site which needed to be kept up to date with all of the files and this software made it easy because you put it in at 1 site and it will replicate over to the other site as well.

Pros

Easy to setup
When 2 of the servers are paired together, it replicates easily
Allows for AD Authentication on folders (this is a must in our environment), if you don't have an AD environment it allows for its own permissions on folders
Users don't notice a difference when accessing files, some large files can take a while if they need to be fetched

Cons

After initial setup we couldn't increase the drive size, we ended up having to re-setup the NAS to increase the drive size
Not being able to stop jobs from happening when there is a long que

Ben
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Morro Data

Reviewed on 20/04/2021

We're sharing Autocad DWG files, including complex xreference hierarchies between offices. We were...

We're sharing Autocad DWG files, including complex xreference hierarchies between offices. We were very concerned going in about how well this would work, but for the most part it has been really great. The few times that we've had issues, Morro's tech support has been extremely responsive and able to solve the problems quickly.

Pros

We setup cache drives in offices located in two different cities. Setup is very easy and the drives have worked very reliably. We were able to integrate with our on-prem ActiveDirectory, enabled DFS drive mapping, then moved files over from our file server. It's been very smooth sailing ever since. Having multiple backups of files automatically available has saved us many times.

Cons

There aren't too many things I haven't been happy with. We do sometimes run into files (PDF in particular) where we wish we could see who has a read/write lock on the file, as we could in Windows Server.

Alternatives Considered

Egnyte and SureSync

Reasons for Switching to Morro Data CloudNAS

Cost and ease of implementation. We have been able to run essentially serverless in one of our other offices, using just a Morro cache drive for files where local access was critical.
Grant
Grant
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  • Industry: Nanotechnology
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

CloudNAS great idea, needs more time

Reviewed on 04/12/2018

We are trying to solve the problem of cloud-backed, but NAS presented file shares. We need the...

We are trying to solve the problem of cloud-backed, but NAS presented file shares. We need the speed of local network access, but desire a time-based tiering as well as backups and multiple location access. Similar to a Nasuni, but on a much smaller scale. Microsoft has AzureFS, but does not automatically download new files to all locations, pre-staging the data for fast access. MorroData seems to cover everything.

Pros

The software is easy to setup and install. Web-based, the application is easy to understand and configure. Attachment to on-premise AD was extremely easy and effective.

Cons

Unfortunately in our test case, performance was poor, compared to a local file server. After some analysis, MorroData determined that we had a large amount of small files. Apparently, their cloud caching algorithms have a bias towards larger and fewer files. They said they have a fix coming soon.

Wendy
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Customer experience on product

Reviewed on 22/06/2023

Migration from the previous product is seamless, and painless. Use model fits the existing model....

Migration from the previous product is seamless, and painless. Use model fits the existing model. Technical support is excellent. The product is very stable. Update process is easy. Pretty much no maintenance effort is required.

Pros

Product is stable. Easy to use. No maintenance effort is required. Migration is easy. Excellent technical support.

Cons

Can't think of any negative points. Maybe the company is small and the use model is simple so we have not really stretch the product to the limit.

Michael
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

One of the best Network storage services you can have that covers ALL the bases.

Reviewed on 08/04/2021

Been great and all of my clients love it! We offer to our clients and of course we are a user.

Been great and all of my clients love it! We offer to our clients and of course we are a user.

Pros

The ease of setup and the common sense ease of backup and the ability to make easy changes and see the "flow" of everything all in the software. Love the sharing and the restrictions you can put on it. Love the software app on your devices to access the cloud when you are away from your LAN. And the ease of use to get to the cloud when you don't have access to either of the above!!

Cons

I wish on the cloud version you could download from it. You can't but you can "share" which is very cool and limit what the person can do. So if I want to download it when I am away from my LAN and I don't have the APP on the PC I make be using I just share it.
If I am on my LAN, it is just like a network drive though and if I am off of my LAN there is a software on my LAPTOP/Surface.

Response from Morro Data

Hi Michael, Thank you for your review! We look forward to working with you closely in the future!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Easy access to files from anywhere I am

Reviewed on 10/04/2018

Files are secure and synced to a cloud where they are easily accessed from anywhere in the globe....

Files are secure and synced to a cloud where they are easily accessed from anywhere in the globe. Device performance is also considerably good.

Pros

Mainly the ease of use. Once the files are synced to the cloud, they are readily available for access from anywhere if there is an internet connection and a computer.

Cons

When the device is connected to a local network for longer periods of time, sometimes the devices becomes inaccessible from local network. Might be due to ip address conflicts that occur overtime.

Response from Morro Data

Thanks for the review and feedback.

Assume a reboot of router (or switch with DHCP service) solved the IP address conflicts...

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Verified Reviewer
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Love the seamless multi-office file sync with an awesome tech support.

Reviewed on 11/04/2018

Sharing files with multiple locations/office spaces seems so easy and efficient.

Sharing files with multiple locations/office spaces seems so easy and efficient.

Pros

- Simply Drag and Drop
- If you have multiple locations the files will sync across all the location and they can be accessed any time incredibly quickly.

Cons

- Setting up the box seems a bit complicated.
- There is a mild learning curve to understanding the process.

Response from Morro Data

Thanks for the review and the feedback on setting up the box. We do our best to make the CloudNAS simple. You may reach out to us at Morro for further feedback.

In general, the VM-based appliance is for advanced users. Would highly recommend hardware appliance for plug-n-play simple set up.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Richard
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

So far, support has been super responsive to any questions or issues we've had using the...

Reviewed on 10/04/2018

It helps us keep a single set of data files across different offices and allows us to keep file...

It helps us keep a single set of data files across different offices and allows us to keep file locking abilities while working collaboratively.

Pros

Easy to use and fast. Users don't need to worry about conflicts and file locking... it works similar to our server file share. It syncs between three sites without having to worry about it and it lets us work collaboratively. There's a cloud backup (actually, the master copy) that maintains versioning so we can always rollback to a version if someone accidentally deleted or overwrote a file.

Cons

Minor issues - compatibility with our workflow - but they are working hard at fixing them! AutoCAD sheet set manager issues have been fixed now. Our engineering software being unable to save a file has also been fixed. We are testing Revit worksharing and working to get that workflow resolved.

Response from Morro Data

Thanks Richard for your review.
We are working with our best effort to deliver the best product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the latest 3.0 release and stay tuned for the workflow optimization.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Chris
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Exacta Review of Morro

Reviewed on 08/04/2021

Overall, it's been everything I could have asked for.

Overall, it's been everything I could have asked for.

Pros

Easy to use. Custom tailored customer service. Intuitive interface.

Cons

Nothing major of note. We have issues at times keeping users connected in two of our offices, but are still uncertain of the issue (whether network or something else)

tom
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Better with time

Reviewed on 10/04/2021

Pros

Constantly improving and open to feedback

Cons

Basic Support is slow.and when things break it bring company to a halt. Have to purchase better support for quicker responses

Jim
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  • Industry: Semiconductors
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

TPI

Reviewed on 27/08/2018

Pros

Cost effective; ease of use; multi-site provision

Cons

file share link takes a long time to complete.

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for your review.

We are working with our best effort to deliver the product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the upcoming 4.0 release for new features and improvements.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Richard
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Security is key

Reviewed on 13/04/2021

It's a great system there are minor things but they are working to improve the solution to cover...

It's a great system there are minor things but they are working to improve the solution to cover these concerns.

Pros

This solution ensures your files are safe and secure and always backed up. It's a great feeling to know your files are always somewhere.

Cons

When the site looses internet they loose file access.

Christopher
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Cloud storage, with local access and enterprise features

Reviewed on 27/08/2018

Excellent, they offer features that only very large organizations offer at a entry level price...

Excellent, they offer features that only very large organizations offer at a entry level price point. The more you use it, the more expensive it is, but to get started its a fraction of the competitors. Excellent support and they listed to feedback from users of important features that need improvement or things we would like to see. You can also pick your own cloud storage.

Pros

Deduplication, compression and multisite

Cons

It takes time to migrate lots of data...

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for your review.

We are working with our best effort to deliver the product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the upcoming 4.0 release for new features and improvements.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

George
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A fairly quick learning process. Wonderful feeling having your data backed up so easily.

Reviewed on 10/04/2018

Pros

Customer support is fast. Thorough and prompt response either via mail or phone. The service is friendly and knowledgeable .

Cons

Just typical learning curve for a new product. I guess it is one of the drawbacks to early adoption. Nonetheless it's growth and growth potential is invaluable.

Response from Morro Data

George,
Thanks for the review! And yes, we at Morro Data are doing out best to improve the product based on customers' feedback. Please check out the CloudNAS 3.0 release with bunch of new features and a refreshed UI.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Chris
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

suits our small business set up

Reviewed on 26/02/2019

positive. the support is excellent and the product itself is easy to deploy and maintain

positive. the support is excellent and the product itself is easy to deploy and maintain

Pros

it's flexible, intuitive and good value for money.

Cons

nothing really, we're pleased with it and would recommend it

Response from Morro Data

Thanks Chris for the review!

Please note that the O365 SharePoint Sync feature is available now and fits Microsoft applications.

We will keep working on the roadmap making the product better.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Mel
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

IS manager

Reviewed on 28/08/2018

Pros

Flexible, ease of access at each site. ..

Cons

Sync with Dropbox. Some errors in the system that tech support had to fix.

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for your review.

We are working with our best effort to deliver the product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the upcoming 4.0 release for new features and improvements.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Mike
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  • Industry: Market Research
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Morro CloudNAS Review

Reviewed on 27/08/2018

We have offices that we plan to close down and instead of moving them to an older server or to...

We have offices that we plan to close down and instead of moving them to an older server or to manage we decided we would like to move it to the cloud. I would call this a hybrid cloud when still behind our firewall, but the data is stored in the cloud. I like what I see so far, only using it for a month, but easy to use and setup...

Pros

Ease of use
Support was great for an issue we were having with sign in
Being able to share files\go back in versions

Cons

The issue we had with sign-in, support did an update to fix though

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for your review.

We are working with our best effort to deliver the product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the upcoming 4.0 release for new features and improvements.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Alan
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great experience

Reviewed on 16/04/2018

Pros

It is a great experience although we are seeing some issues with certain aspects of the software that I would like solved.

Cons

It is a great experience although we are seeing some issues with certain aspects of the software that I would like solved.

Matthew
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  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Great value solution for cloud services. Functionality lacking and syncing issues often...

Reviewed on 12/04/2018

Pros

Value. UI. Presentation. Value for services is great. However, value does come with some limitations. User interface is extremely friendly and able to be customized to look as close to the office's network drives as possible.

Cons

File Syncing Issues. Download/Upload times. With an organization having multiple users across the country and multiple offices, file syncing issues become quickly apparent. You will have to learn new self internal management processes to overcome loss of data procedures.

Christopher
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent solution for remote / satellite offices

Reviewed on 22/02/2019

Overall, our organization has been extremely satisfied with the solution. We have a total of 4...

Overall, our organization has been extremely satisfied with the solution. We have a total of 4 devices, all at remote locations, allowing our users to all access the same data. User functions are well thought out, and setup is extremely easy.

Pros

Ease of use, file processing to remove duplication from cloud storage, cost

Cons

limited data migration options to get large datasets into the cloud

Response from Morro Data

Hi Christopher, Thank you for your review! Please stay tuned for the new release in a few weeks with tons of new features including JumpCloud DaaS integration and Morro Migrate... Regards, Team Morro Data

Robert
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Very easy to use and simple installation.

Reviewed on 11/04/2018

Easy and quick installation, reliable speeds and secure data

Easy and quick installation, reliable speeds and secure data

Pros

the technology is amazing, simplifies backup and and backup security as a whole. The speeds and are alo good and the hardware is reliable

Cons

licensing using credit cards, have a different alternative for this part. Have license key and have them for 1-3 yrs renewable

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for the review Robert, At Morro Data, we do our best to deliver the simple, affordable Cloud based Global File solution. Check out the latest CloudNAS 3.0 release.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Anthony
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Morro Data works for me

Reviewed on 20/04/2021

Overall it is a great secure way to share files with Clients and wide spread teams

Overall it is a great secure way to share files with Clients and wide spread teams

Pros

The ease of use for the end customer. Looks like a drive for them

Cons

I had a problem with the initial setup, but it was my fault. Once I fixed that everything worked correctly

Roger
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

OK to use. Not as seamless as logging in to a website.

Reviewed on 14/04/2018

Ability to work remotely.

Ability to work remotely.

Pros

Easy to learn, intuitive interface. Makes access to company files possible for those of us who work remotely.

Cons

Being limited to uploading / downloading one file at a time. Makes my work more time consuming.
Having a severely restricted viewing pane with no options on how folders are displayed. I would like the option to view folders by name only ('list' option in File Explorer) so I can see more of them on the screen at one time.

Mark
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  • Industry: Media Production
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Cloud cache solution that works

Reviewed on 27/08/2018

Depending on the situation the CloudNAS could be highly useful, although it could do with SSD based...

Depending on the situation the CloudNAS could be highly useful, although it could do with SSD based storage and the ability to dual-target the backup to a local storage device. The Morro approach is both original and refreshing, although the company needs to be less vague about exactly how much space companies use in general, and what they end up paying each month for their service.
Businesses generally like up-front costs, not flexible terms, so a pricing grid would be useful.

Pros

Relatively simple to configure and mostly jargon free

Cons

No Google Drive support. Surely backup up a Google business account isn't that difficult?

Response from Morro Data

Thank you for your review.

We are working with our best effort to deliver the product with the feature set fitting our customers need; also to support our product for the customers' success.

Please check out the upcoming 4.0 release for new features and improvements.

Regards,
Team Morro Data

Derek
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

My company uses Morro to store project related files.

Reviewed on 16/04/2018

Pros

Morro Data is very simple to navigate and figure out how to transfer files with drag uploading, as well as downloading.

Cons

The sorting functionality is poor. The files do not appear to sort alphabetically. I can find what I am looking for, but at times takes time. It freezes up from time to time.