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Storage space is so cheap nowadays. I find it very hard to be enticed by even more free cloud storage. I doubt that offering me more and more would help.

I would be interested in an application that makes agreements with the ISPs that have throttling or download limits so that traffic to and from their servers don't count.

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> Storage space is so cheap nowadays.

Someone tell Dropbox of this news

I pay $99 a year for >100GB. You don't think that's cheap?

A 1TB hard drive retails for $50. If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.

> If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.

Dropbox isn't storage (cold, unconnected drive). It's universal storage with multiple endpoints of connectivity, always available. This isn't to create an argument of any sort, but just to clarify they're two different things for those who might not understand that.

Not to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.

You still do. Replication =! Backups. You should be taking snapshots in time of your Dropbox account (unless you're using their Packrat offering, which provides versioning).

If my hard drive breaks it doesn't delete the file from their servers. You'd need to have a hard drive break in a specific manner in which it corrupts the file and then have the corrupted file be replicated. Even then Dropbox maintains copies of all versions of your files for 30 days, so you'd have to not notice the corruption for 30 days in order to actually lose the file.

Be careful on both. The hard drive doesn't need to "break", you just need filesystem corruption. If the file is readable by the Dropbox client, away we replicate corrupted data. Also, there have been instances where Dropbox has been unable to recover lost data, 30 days or not. It's your data though, be as cautious (or not) as you feel you need to be.

Perhaps I am being too trusting of their service. Thanks for the wake up call. I'll back up my data.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+lost+data

I pay for Dropbox too because they have the best app/ui. However with all of these other companies catching up I am continually saddened Dropbox pricing hasn't come in line.

For 100GB

Drive is $60

SKyDrive is $50

Box is $60 (I think, confused on their free plan pricing) Then there's Mega with $10/month and 500GB

So yes, $99 is expensive in comparison. Eventually (if not already, I honestly havent looked) these other services and their apps will catch up.

Yeah, with storage so cheap who needs net neutrality?

Indeed. Offering for free something that gets cheaper as time passes, I don't if can be considered as clever marketing or not.

I believe that it was clever marketing when google first did it when gmail was first released. I feel like the storage is only part of the service, it's access to your files everywhere that they are really trying to sell.

Knowing that most cars are bound to depreciate quickly wouldn't stop me from accepting a nice, new, free one.

not to mention you got 50g for referring a friend, or just registering a second account, so almost everyone already is at 50g

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