125Mbps? 60 MB?

I’m on gigabit fibre, yes

I have 32GB of RAM and I would still do that trade off. The 60MB is there all day long doing nothing for me. The internet connection is actually being used for something useful which is synchronizing my files (the actual purpose of the software). I feel like I'm wasting more resources with the first option.

Also it's not even that bandwidth expensive with most users' workflow. Maybe this should be a concern for video editors. Majority of people who are just editing word documents (or code, for what I believe is most HN's audience), wouldn't notice the difference.

I just think that Dropbox is an inappropriate file storage mechanism (especially for heavy artifacts being generated locally) for someone moving that much stuff in and out of a long term storage system, especially at those levels. I'm not someone that generates 500GB of CAD artifacts a day, or anything even remotely similar, but I ingest about 15GB of global market data and news a day and I laughed a little bit reading your response (I understand how you were responding to GP, and your response makes sense) because its just nonsensical to use consumer focused products for anything serious.

Just because I slap on a "business tier" sticker on a water bottle doesn't mean the water bottle is better equipped at solving enterprise needs.

> the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud

I know someone using Dropbox for video editing, they've been using the Synology Dropbox client which also uses the API. It hasn't been a problem.

The large video files (tens or hundreds of GB) are ingested once and never edited, the only edits to files are the small project files (megabytes), and some graphics files (hundreds of megabytes). Re-exports of rendered video causes the whole file to change anyway due to the nature of video compression so binary diff doesn't help there anyway.