During the latter months of 2025 I hit my 1TB OneDrive cloud storage limit which I was using to store all my photos. I didn’t fancy spanning a secondary OneDrive account, so decided to explore the world of cloud storage providers – with help from this amazing comparison tool. I was particularly looking into those who offered larger storage options. I narrowed it down to MEGA and pCloud. I’m aware of MEGA from it’s early days, when it earned itself a bad rep, but upon reading into the situation, it’s shifted into being a more genuine player. Both solutions were roughly £12-15 per month ($15-20), but pCloud won me over as it offered 10TB instead of the 8TB offered up by MEGA.

So having signed up to pCloud, I spent many hours, days and weeks to centralise “my life” in the cloud and became content with my decision. Platform wise, the cloud drive you get presented in Windows after installing the App was very useful and the iOS (Mobile) App was OK too, sufficient – definitely.

However, as time progressed I realised the lack of E2EE (end-to-end encryption) was just something that didn’t sit right with me and I refused to pay up another £5 a month for access to pCloud vault. As such I started researching other solutions around Black Friday.

After a few trials and tests, I eventually signed up to Sync.com, which does offer E2EE, but very little else… after a few weeks, I realised their platform was woeful. The app and general solution felt like it was created 20 years ago and has had zero innovation since. Despite taking many hours, days and weeks to move from pCloud to Sync.com, I eventually admitted defeat. I went full circle and signed up to MEGA.

The only problem I faced now was that grabbing the data from Sync.com to be able to upload to MEGA, was painful. The web platform doesn’t let you download folders etc, so the only real option was to install the Windows App, and sync everything down to a device. Which not only needed sufficient local storage, but so… much……. time……….. Sync.com doesn’t make anything simple, easy, or fast. A lesson learned the hard way.

Anyway, eventually with everything localised on the new HDD I purchased specifically for this task, I was able to upload “my life” to MEGA, and now five or six weeks have passed I feel as though the solution offers everything I need. The only issue I currently have is that access to MEGA is blocked in my workplace. Presumably due to it’s history – and I do appreciate that I’m almost certainly not alone here. Most businesses will block Cloud Storage solutions period, or at least limit access to those less common (for genuine use). MEGA will certainly fall into the less common for genuine use I feel… Whether it can break away from it’s historical past, who knows – on a personal level, it doesn’t really bother me.

For what its worth MEGA also includes a VPN Solution and the ability to enable Blob Storage, neither of which are features I require. But it’s handy they’re included – I think?

Story time over. The real reason for this post, is that I’ve create a script that uses the MEGA CMD tool.

• Which will…
  • Download MEGA CMD and Fuse if not present, and install them.
  • Login to MEGA (after prompting and securely storing your credentials on first run)
  • Launch MEGACmdServer
  • Present a Fuse mapped drive for “typical” drive usage in Windows (using WinFSP)

Here’s the script; General-Scripts/Mega-Mount.ps1 at main · jamesvincent/General-Scripts

If you run this at start-up, you’ll find your MEGA drive is accessible on each boot which is nice.

Happy days.

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