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How much is a terabyte of dropbox storage?

Dropbox is $10/TB/mo, which is the "old" industry standard (and still what most big guys charge). Backblaze is $5, but they charge egress fees, so usage matters. Dropbox doesn't charge for egress, but there are limits on "Public" folder bandwidth (and you can't pay for more if you max out). I don't think there are limits on private content, but I bet there's a soft throttle or some limit that will get you contacted.

There aren't a lot of options for <$5/TB and they all charge egress. I've tried Backblaze, pCloud, and DO Spaces. My specific use case is storing full HD movies for streaming via Plex, which requires a fairly reliable 6Gbit/second, and most of them can't keep up. DO Spaces did the best of all the ones I tried, so I'm using that for now, but it's just skating the edge of usability.

Surely you mean Mbit, unless you’re streaming uncompressed video for some reason! :)

I'd love to see someone try running a TV network off of DO spaces :)

Indeed. HD streaming seems to need about 5.4Mbps reliably. Spaces is working well enough, but sometimes I have to pause for ten minutes to buffer enough for the rest of the film. It usually works, but with variable bitrate it must spike at times.

Although it's certainly a typo, ~6 Mbits a second isn't enough for more than poor quality 1080p video, roughly equivalent to streaming from Netflix or Hulu. If you were streaming a backup of a UHD Bluray, for example, the bitrate could be over 100 Mbps.

Did you try GSuite Business account with 5 accounts? Google offers unlimited cloud storage if you get more than 5 accounts (5*12 = 60 USD/month and no egress)

It's 'unlimited' until you use it too much, and then all your google accounts will get perma-banned...

I've read this as well, so I didn't try. I also don't want to spend that much. I have 120 movies in Spaces and it only costs me about $8/mo. My egress is under the free tier so far, and overages amount to about four cents per movie stream.

Any evidence of that? Isn't it likely that Google has plenty of commercial customers using this service with large amounts of data?

For $6 per month (paid yearly) you get 1tb of OneDrive + office (desktop applications). My math maybe off but if you buy office every 3 years for $200 then you're already even.... And 1TB of storage is just free really.

You could also say, MS Office is virtually free for the 1 TB these days.

I should add that places like Backblaze and pCloud and DO Spaces and others charge per GB stored, so if you're using 1.3TB it's prorated accordingly.

0. You can only get 2 TB+

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