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Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by buro9 »

My issues with dropbox is not storage and price (I'm happy to pay not to have all my data with 1 provider), but speed.

I recently was in Greece and added 5GB of photos to my Dropbox so that if I had my camera stolen (or left it accidentally on a bar table) that I wouldn't lose the photos.

The problem was that the photos only uploaded at a rate of around 50kbps to 70kbps from the hotel (wired connection).

Fair enough... must be hotel or local internet access.

Frustrated at the speed I tried a local internet cafe... same speed.

I didn't actually manage to get all of the photos uploaded and when I was back in the UK I plugged in and they continued to upload at the same rate. Even though I have a 10MB uplink here.

I ran some quick tests uploading large files to a few boxes I have in different places, and all achieved at least half a meg upload speed. Dropbox stubbornly remained on less than 100kbps.

I'd tried unchecking the "Limit upload rate" both whilst in Greecen and in the UK, to no avail. Not that I would spend more time on this than it needed, I'd already made a second copy of my photos by copying them to the laptop.

Before this trip I hadn't prioritised upload speed for a cloud storage provider, now I would.

I'm fine paying twice what Google charge, but still want 2 things more than anything:

1) Client side encryption of all non-public, non-shared files.

2) Faster upload speed.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by sigkill »

lebski88 wrote: post #113
sigkill wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

They launched with 25 gigs but that was only a short term promotion at the start of this year. 7 gigs is their standard free offering. Anyone who signed up during the promotion period gets to keep 25 gigs free though of course.

Oh I see. I had no idea that it was a promotion. I guess I got lucky. :)

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by plasticgun »

FrojoS wrote: post #48
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.

So do I, and I think 99% of all Dropbox users at some point. Why then, don't they do it? I think, its because this makes getting "free additional space" so very attractive. You envite lots of friends and colleges in order to grow to a few GB [1]. I would guess this is one of the biggest reasons for Dropbox's success. [1] For instance, I have 8.4 GB by now, without cheating. This more or less meets my needs.

I just logged in to my unused dropbox account with my galaxy s3 ... surprisingly, I get 48gb for free for 2 years just for having a samsung phone ... thats a nice touch :)

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by mike-cardwell »

keithpeter wrote: post #130
mike-cardwell wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's better to use duplicity than rsync. It provides incremental backups so you can restore from points in time.

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ Still in beta? I'll try it out on a test box later on when things are quieter.

I didn't realise that. Maybe they apply "beta" in the same way as Google. It has been around for years and is very stable from my experience. I wrote up how I use it to handle my backups last year: https://grepular.com/Secure_Free_Incremental_and_Instant_Bac...

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by rplnt »

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.

They explicitly said that the prices will not change.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by Derbasti »

JesseAldridge wrote: post #90
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.

I don't know. $10 a month really doesn't seem like a lot of money to me. Especially considering the cost of, say, the computers you're running it on.

Hypothetically speaking, you could be running on a cheap laptop that you bought used for some $200. One and a half years of using Dropbox would cost about the same amount.

Realistically though, I totally agree.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by brlewis »

jamesbritt wrote: post #166
lihaoyi wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you'd have filed a ticket with Dropbox support, they'd have fixed that and restored all your files instantly, no hassle, no questions asked.

That's great, at least for massive, scorched-earth file loss. With my most recent loss the were missing folders I wanted back, but other items I deleted earlier on purpose. Even in the mistakenly deleted folders were items I didn't want. I'd be happy if there was a way on the Web site to either select "Restore entire folder" or check off files in a folder and opt to restore all selected. But good to know about filing…

My impression skimming through the help files on this is that you ask to have things restored to a particular event in your Dropbox event history. There would only be a problem if there were other items deleted later on purpose.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by iso-8859-1 »

dalanmiller wrote: post #104
lelandbatey wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I may just say: I have Google Drive, and am loving it. It's much cheaper than dropbox, as I pay only $5 and get 100GB of space. That's WAY more than I need, but it syncs to all my devices. However, I will be the first to say that DropBox has some really great features that Google Drive lacks. For example, there is no public folder for Google Drive, like there is for Dropbox, and I cannot throttle the speed at whic…

p.s. the Public folder is going away. http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-...

no, it isn't. just has to be manually enabled.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62403&replies=10#...

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by nodata »

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…

> I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything.

Easy: Privacy.

Re: New Dropbox Pro plans

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Post by alenlpeacock »

buro9 wrote: post #171

My issues with dropbox is not storage and price (I'm happy to pay not to have all my data with 1 provider), but speed. I recently was in Greece and added 5GB of photos to my Dropbox so that if I had my camera stolen (or left it accidentally on a bar table) that I wouldn't lose the photos. The problem was that the photos only uploaded at a rate of around 50kbps to 70kbps from the hotel (wired connection). Fair enough.…

You might like http://spacemonkey.com (when it becomes available). Client-side encryption, 60x faster upload, 10x more space.
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