They actually linked to a video of fireworks.
New Dropbox Pro plans
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Doesn't TC volume need to be unmounted in order for Dropbox to sync it? Or have Dropbox added Volume Shadow Copying support?
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#53I 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…
Please don't trust Dropbox as a journaled backup solution. I powered up a virtual machine that had been down for a while and had dropbox installed. I tried to SSH in. My password kept being rejected. I verified my key through the console, and then it dawned on me that the VM's clock was off, and that's why SSL didn't work. So I set the clock. I think I set it a couple seconds into the future. Fast forward a couple of…
IIRC you can get deleted files from dropbox.com for 30 days for free accounts. With a paid account you can go back in history indefinitely.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You can then add suspenders to your belt: sign up for multiple backup services. E.g. I have Backblaze and Crashplan. $3/mo for Crashplan and $5/mo for Backblaze give me two unlimited backups.
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#55If I'm calculating this correctly, S3 costs about $12.50 per 100GB per month (and that's not including any http requests you make). How is Dropbox (I assume they store data in S3) offering a lower price than that? I know they de-dupe data but is there enough common data being stored for them to be able to charge so little?
They are definitely going to be in the top tier of S3 (5000TB+). If you do reduced redundancy, it's $3.70/month, $5.50 with full redundancy. There's plenty of room for them to make money there.
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#56Videos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)
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#57The auto-backup of pictures from my iPhone was such a killer feature it finally made me go all-in on DropBox and pay-up for the 50 Gb plan.
Dropbox can auto-backup photos on iOS? That's news to me.
I know they released something like that for Android, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in the iPhone app. How do I enable that?
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#58I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G). Kudos foe the increased storage though. Not having the pricing page live yet is kinda weird.
> I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G). Agreed. For those of us who use less storage (and especially 30 GB or less), Google Drive is clearly the better deal. Although others seem to have experienced problems with Google Drive, it has worked essentially flawlessly for me and, because of that, I plan to let my Dropbox subscription expire. For every person who wants to keep 100 GB of data synch…
Although Microsoft is not as cool these days, I am liking the new SkyDrive (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/compare). (I also use a paid SpiderOak account for backup and sharing.)
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#59Why 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].
Wasn't the only question asked:
> Why would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching?
Which to me is still unanswered but very interesting.
Re: New Dropbox Pro plans
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Regarding sensitive / confidential info, why not set up a volume with TrueCrypt that you can just mount when needed for sensitive stuff?
I used to do this for passwords and such. The problem was that the file would become un-synched and I'd end up with several "'s version..." copies. The problem is that with Dropbox you aren't accessing a single file, you're accessing a local copy. So concurrent access, especially when a file is being held open on Windows, creates problems.