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I would love to move from Google Drive to Dropbox because of syncing issues and the UI/UX but the pricing models kills me. I have around 40 GB of stuff I need to be backed up and in cloud so more than the free version that Dropbox offers but not enough to justify the first tier of 2TB. I get plenty of room to grow with the cheapest version of Google Drive.

I've been tempted to just suck it up and pay for way more than what I need.

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Pay if it's a good deal for what you need. It doesn't hurt you to have free space. Surely you wouldn't find the deal more attractive if today's 2TB price was only for 100GB.

I'd argue that what you need is not 40GB of storage, it's enough storage and a great service. To me, paying $8.25/mo is a no-brainer for the quality and reliability of the service alone. Having enough storage space so that I never have to think twice about uploading something is just a nice bonus.

The only thing holding me back is I'd probably have to pay for both since I use Drive for a daily NAS scheduled backup for business purposes. Looks like I can now do that with Dropbox as well.

Great. Might just spend the money :)

Is it really 2tb? Dropbox only offers me 1tb for the first tier. Can you post a link where you see 2tb being offered?

Somewhat unrelated question, but do git repos actually sync properly? I used to work there (not on destkop sync) and if I recall correctly, DVCSs were pretty much explicitly contraindicated. I feel like you'd get a gigantic mess of conflicted copies if you tried.

Can anyone else besides Dropbox handle multiple large git repos?

The last time I tried with OneDrive, Google Drive, or Nextcloud, all choked

https://mega.nz/ is what you want.

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