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Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by pca » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

nickbarnwell wrote: post #74

sigkill wrote: post #70

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Iirc skydrive offers 25 gigs. I wonder why they're saying just 7 though. EDIT - Yep my account says 25. I'm thoroughly confused.

If my memory is correct, when they merged it back into the Live brand they also downgraded the standard storage space to 7GB. If you logged in sometime during the transition period or clicked on a special link that they sent out in an email you got to preserve your 25GB of storage.

It wasn't a login, you had to have at least one file on your skydrive before the recent merge to keep the 25GB. Effectively you now can get e.g. 45GB for 10$ a year. Dropbox' old 50GB for 10$ a month plan was a joke in comparison.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by SquareWheel » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:15 PM UTC

Timothee wrote: post #54

mootothemax wrote: post #21

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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.

If you were to choose one, which would it be? I'm with CrashPlan now, but their upload speed is so impossibly slow that I'll never upload all my data. Uploading only 250GB has taken me 4 months. And the software is not so great.

I wouldn't mind paying a little bit more if those problems were fixed.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by jonknee » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:15 PM UTC

statictype wrote: post #32

If 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?

1) Not everyone has their account at max 2) They get bulk discounts from Amazon that take the price down quite a bit 3) They only store one copy of a file across their user base, so even though they bill you for 100GB and you have it completely full, it's possible they are only storing a small fraction of that. A folder of music for example is likely to not actually take up any space at all, but they get to bill you for every bit.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by g3orge » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:17 PM UTC

cletus wrote: post #8

I 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.

yes. I want less than 50. Not more. I'd like to be able to purchase with a one-time fee some GBs. (10 for example)

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by mikeash » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:18 PM UTC

ja2ke wrote: post #87

gamzer wrote: post #59

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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.

"Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?

He's asking why they would announce it before they implement it.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by keithpeter » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:20 PM UTC

Hang on; old free:cheapest paid ratio was 1:25. New free:cheapest paid ratio is roughly 1:5. Plus 18Gb will store my teaching materials until I retire! 400Mb does me for a year or so including the scans from paper I do on my photocopier.

Jolly decent I'd say

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by mikeash » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:20 PM UTC

blahbap wrote: post #67

rkudeshi wrote: post #57

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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?

Set "Camera upload" to On in Settings in the app

Doesn't this require you to launch the DB app to upload new photos? I don't think third-party apps can be automatically invoked when you take a picture.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by keithpeter » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:23 PM UTC

euroclydon wrote: post #47

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…

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…

rsync to an external drive. I use droppy for Web access and convenience only.

Suggestion: rsync a folder tree over to the dropbox directory once a session? anacron every 30 mins?

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by jessriedel » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:24 PM UTC

euroclydon wrote: post #47

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…

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…

To summarize all the replies to euroclydon...

Free and non-Pack-Rate paid accounts can have their files restored for up to 30 days into the past. A support ticket is required for batch restoration; otherwise you have to restore files one-by-one. (brlewis is wrong in thinking that non-Pack-Rate paid accounts have an indefinite history.)

Pack-Rat paid accounts can batch restore all files no matter how old and without a support ticket.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by keithpeter » Tue, Jul 10, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

Semiapies wrote: post #56

Videos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)

Photos half a meg each so 2000 per gig. 100k photos might happen, I have a couple of filing cabinets full of 35mm negatives and contact sheets (ok not family snaps).

Put some music and videos in there and you are away.