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Good for them, I gladly pay the yearly fee for their service. Haven't had as much reliability with any other cloud storage service.

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I wish I could pay them more for more that 1tb storage. I have a ton of raw files and years of images I'd be happy to back up there instead of using Backblaze or S3 etc.

https://www.dropbox.com/plans You might want to check "billed monthly" at the bottom.

Not sure I'm following.

I just meant that if you use "Dropbox for teams" you can upload more than one TB of data. And you pay more, but by default the prices on that page are "billed yearly" for some reason.

Even just switching from yearly to monthly on his current plan would allow him to give them more money for what he's currently using. Yearly is $99 while monthly the same plan would be $120.

That doesn't help with "for more that 1tb storage".

Ah. I guess I read his comment as

>> "I wish I could pay them more for that 1tb storage.

And not his intended:

>> "I wish I could pay them more for more than 1tb storage."

(His mis-spelling of that/than was kinda confusing)

i think they are shooting themselfs in the foot, a month ago after my samsung promo expired i lost my 30gb of space. the only plan they have is 1TB for 8.25eur. my whole macbook drive is 512gb, and i dont like to waste something, so paying 1tb and using only 50 feels like im paying for all those using 1tb. so i switched to hosting owncloud on my downloadbox at home, the benefit is that i can access everything downloaded thru owncloud. if this does not work out im gonna try gdrive, they have a 100gb plan.

I don't understand; I have far more stored in Dropbox than on my computer's hard drives or even the sum of hard drive space among my household computers. The Selective Sync features allows me to do this pretty easily. Every once in a while, I plug in an external drive to ensure I have a physical backup of Dropbox -- that is the irony, the Cloud is my main storage, my external drive is the backup of that; not vice-versa.

well i have only one macbook, and not so much data to backup/sync. if i had a use for 1tb of backup i would subscribe to the package. right now with less < 50GB i dont feel like.

I had the same situation, and I ended up buying the 1 TB plan. I really wish they would have an intermediate tier between 10 GB and 1 TB. I would gladly pay for 100-200 GB. I use Dropbox to back up important documents but not everything I have on my machines, so I'm still using way less than the 1 TB right now.

IMHO That is the whole point..

(speaking from webhosting experience, same deal applies)

You are paying "more" for "1TB" that you won't actually use to fund the cost of people who actually do use it..

If the price was 1/10 of the TB price for 100GB, all the physical storage would be full and they wouldn't make any money since they couldn't ride the float from the overprovisioning..

i would bet the cost of servicing clients between 10gb and 1tb is probably a losing money proposition at the cost they could charge.

Unless it is backed up somewhere outside of your house, it doesn't really exist. One fire takes it all out.

some of it exists inside google photos/drive. i know the risk and am willing to take it.

With Transit (mac app) and some other ftp programs you can use dropbox just like normal network drive so you can upload stiff there and delete it from your computer.

With Arq you can do backups with versions (independent of db versions) there. It is useful if you want to have history of something.

What i am trying to say is that syncing is not only way how to use that 1TB.

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