Does the pricing make sense to anyone? 2TB is is $10/mo but 20TB is $200/mo. That means on a per-TB basis, the bigger plan is 2x as expensive. And then the 30TB is 2x as expensive as 20TB.
Aren't things usually cheaper when you buy bulk?
Aren't things usually cheaper when you buy bulk?
When you pay for 30 TB on the other hand, you probably need it, so their actual cost might be reflected well in that price. This is basically the long tail effect, so when you optimize the price for the majority, price increases are not linear.
This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now.
I disagree with that.
The only "hard" part is stuff that absolutely makes sense during the creation part if you're making several: captcha, not allowing the same phone number to be the recovery for more than ~10 accounts, etc ... It's all very obvious protection against spam/mass registration, and if you are an actual person it takes only a few minutes to get around.
And if you go for paid accounts, all of those limits cease existing.
But beside that, once you have the accounts, it's all very friendly, the multi login where you don't even have to logout / log in other account / logout again / relog in first account, account delegation so you can have a master account with automatic access to others, library (apps, photos, ...) sharing, and all of that is on the free accounts !
It might be far from perfect, but compared to the other big ones Google is very friendly to multi-accounts users.
They have a fine print that says you need at least 5 users in your account or something, otherwise they limit you to 1 TB.
However they are not enforcing that limit and on /r/DataHoarder/ you can see people with dozens of TB stored without issues. And even if they start enforcing it, if you pay for multiple accounts it would still be pretty cheap and you don't get this multi-account management overhead.
If you don't mind multiple accounts and want to optimize on price, just get one 100GB subscription (for the expert help benefit), and lots of free accounts.
A business that needs 100TB (or whatever) has more to spend, and is much less sensitive to price.
[poor man's offer] [crap offer] [real offer] [expensive crap offer]
I need 1tb of space for my images but having to pay $10 makes me feel strange (yes it is relativly cheap and i can afford it) but this non linearity is probably here because of some mix calculation they are doing.
Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price).
Dropbox was definitely the first to offer a viable cloud storage, but they've always offered laughable storage plans (compared to their competition).
2 TB on Google One is $10, which is half of $20. I don't understands what you means by adding a zero. Are you comparing the 20TB offer which is $200 and have missed the 10x prices increase too?