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- Dropbox Backup plan - Back up one computer and one external drive for just $5.99/month

- Dropbox with Backup - Choose from one of several Dropbox plans that include Backup, starting at $9.99/month

I think it's interesting as this year many college alumni and students are looking into other options beyond google drives backup & sync after their license changes.

Can anyone compare pricing with other services?

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I still have some stuff on a free DropBox account but in general I use OneDrive these days - MS365 Family works out stupid cheap if you actually make use of 2+ of the licenses. 6TB cloud storage + 6 copies of the Office suite for $100/year.

Google and DropBox pricing always seems much worse to me.

Just to add to this: there are usually two or three offers per year (black friday, Christmas and the like, just check Amazon) where your can get a year for the family plan (6 licenses, as mentioned, each one good for 5 devices or so) for around 40€ all in. They stack, so you can buy several just to be prepared.

Google One is cheaper at $99/year for 2TB it seems (and you can share it with up to 5 people—for the Dropbox plan you need to pay more for family).

Stupid question but how much storage do they offer for the $5.99/month dropbox backup plan?

They don't list the amount of storage on their sales page...

It's unlimited

It's unlimited, but it looks like the catch is the same as Backblaze and co: if you delete a file locally, it'll get deleted from the backup in 30 days (or immediately and become restorable up to 30 days): https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/desktop/dropb...

So it's essentially a mirror of your local data + 30 days of changes.

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