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Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by mootothemax »

luser001 wrote: post #17
edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

Serious question: why not use Backblaze to backup your important things? Dropbox is primarily a sharing and synchronization tool: using it for backup is very expensive. IMHO. YMMV. Edit: They now match Spideroak's pricing. If anybody from Spideroak is reading this: you have an awesome service, but here are a couple of things you might want to do. I like your commitment to privacy and hence use it, but sadly, IMHO it'…

Serious question: why not use Backblaze to backup your important things?

Because their homepage says: As low as $3.96/month per computer for unlimited data.

I consider that to be an unmaintainable low price, and their "unlimited data" claim really puts me off. My files are too important to me; I couldn't even consider going with them.

DropBox certainly costs more but:

1) I trust them (knowing that they use Amazon S3 is a BIG bonus)

2) $20/month is an incredibly low price for peace of mind.

Note: I'm not the same author as the grandparent comment.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by andreyvit »

luser001 wrote: post #17
edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

Serious question: why not use Backblaze to backup your important things? Dropbox is primarily a sharing and synchronization tool: using it for backup is very expensive. IMHO. YMMV. Edit: They now match Spideroak's pricing. If anybody from Spideroak is reading this: you have an awesome service, but here are a couple of things you might want to do. I like your commitment to privacy and hence use it, but sadly, IMHO it'…

Because it's convenient and reassuring to be able to access everything from everywhere, including from iOS devices. Also: instantly share any file or folder with a link; zero upload time for content that already exists. (I did give up Dropbox a while ago because keeping projects on it was killing my MacBook's battery life. I'm planning to come back, though.)

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by wkdown »

edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

It gets better. Install some PortableApps.com programs like Firefox, Chrome, GIMP, Skype, PuTTY, uTorrent, ClamWin, etc etc

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by jwallaceparker »

parfe wrote: post #7

Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? I immediately went to see the new pricing options only to be met with the same old prices. They squandered my click-through this blog post earned.

Agreed. That is so annoying.

I just spent five minutes digging through my Pro account to see why I hadn't been updated to the 100G limit.

Then went back to the article to see this at the bottom: "All this goodness goes live on our pricing page this evening, so stay tuned." Ugh.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by mirkules »

edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

There are many reasons not to use Dropbox:

1. Sensitive/Confidential info - I would never feel comfortable storing any kind of documentation on a 3rd party server that is sensitive to me like mortgage docs, tax docs or receipts.

2. Many companies have a strict policy disallowing use of Dropbox because it would leak information. On a personal level, any kind of work that I don't want to share with others (this includes Dropbox employees) does not go on Dropbox.

3. Slow, limited or capped internet connection. 50GB over the wire in those circumstances will net you a very, very big bill.

Just because you can't understand why someone wouldn't use it, doesn't mean there is no use case for it.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by glimcat »

parfe wrote: post #7

Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? I immediately went to see the new pricing options only to be met with the same old prices. They squandered my click-through this blog post earned.

It's not presented in a usable fashion, but the existing Pro tiers are having their storage doubled with price held constant (50GB @ $10, 100GB @ $20 --> 100GB @ $10, 200GB @ $20). They're also adding an additional 500GB tier above those, which we don't know the pricing of yet.

Bad presentation on their part, but hopefully that answers the question [that people would have when clicking the link].

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by batgaijin »

I wish there was an option to encrypt all the data not in pbulic folders...

I like dropbox. I think they are providing a great service. I just wish they at least pretended it was a hard decision.

I guess it's pretty easy to live with security concessions like this when people want to give you barrels of money.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by edanm »

wkdown wrote: post #23
edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

It gets better. Install some PortableApps.com programs like Firefox, Chrome, GIMP, Skype, PuTTY, uTorrent, ClamWin, etc etc

Great point.

I don't use PortableApps itself, but I hacked together my own portable collection of stuff. Together with a portable Launchy, a portable Total Commander, and a few batch files which automatically set environment variables to point to the current location of my Dropbox folder, meaning Launchy knows how to launch all of my software automatically, and in Total Commander, all my directory favorites (ctrl+d) work automagically.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by radicalbyte »

mirkules wrote: post #25
edanm wrote: post #5

I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-speci…

There are many reasons not to use Dropbox: 1. Sensitive/Confidential info - I would never feel comfortable storing any kind of documentation on a 3rd party server that is sensitive to me like mortgage docs, tax docs or receipts. 2. Many companies have a strict policy disallowing use of Dropbox because it would leak information. On a personal level, any kind of work that I don't want to share with others (this include…

If you're a Windows user, then I'd recommend using TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) to encrypt all of your files. Then put the TrueCrypt file in your Dropbox folder.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by eldenbishop »

gte910h wrote: post #4
keltex wrote: post #2

Still about 2X the price of Google Drive, but close enough to make me not switch which I had been considering. http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

I've heard Google Drive best described as "Dropbox for those whom time is free".

No kidding... my first sync basically made my PC useless for a good week. Over 1GB of memory and 100% processor usage for around 8 days to sync 35 GB of data.
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