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Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by GHFigs »

weavejester wrote: post #3

At first glance, it seems a touch expensive, as you can get Github and GMail accounts that offer far more storage for less expense. But on the other hand, Dropbox don't have the advantage of being able to assume that most of their customers won't use the full 100GB, as is the case with emails or source control. Also, looking at Amazon's S3 pricing, it isn't much cheaper to use something like Jungledisk with S3 direct…

Dropbox also retains revisions and deleted files, which on free accounts at least does not count against your quota. If this is true for paid accounts, their users can end up using more than what they think they are paying for.

Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by swombat »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #10
swombat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. In addition, the link is broken for me. Brings me to a login page.

It takes you to the page after you're logged in.

And what if I don't have a dropbox account? I didn't know that was an automatic assumption for HN users.

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Post by chacha102 »

swombat wrote: post #13
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes you to the page after you're logged in.

And what if I don't have a dropbox account? I didn't know that was an automatic assumption for HN users.

If you don't have a dropbox, you either don't know what really good syncing is, or you don't have multiple computers to sync. The latter leaves me with the question why you are trying to look at it anyway.

Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by albertni »

swombat wrote: post #13
jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes you to the page after you're logged in.

And what if I don't have a dropbox account? I didn't know that was an automatic assumption for HN users.

Yeah, this is a common complaint. There'll be a page where anyone (with or without an account) can see all of our pricing details soon (it has in fact already been designed).

As a sidenote, people I've asked who have experience in the freemium space have suggested that displaying your pricing for nonusers serves more than one purpose. There's the obvious one of telling people they can pay for more "features" (in our case space). But there's also the less apparent benefit that often times people (especially more mainstream users) are more likely to believe your service is truly free with no strings attached if they see that there are indeed paid options. Of course this kind of rationale applies more to some kinds of services than others.

Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by mikeyur »

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #9
unalone wrote: post #2

I'm not certain if this is "news" per se. It's interesting, and I'm glad that Dropbox is staying kickass, but there's not much discussion to be held, nor is this a particularly newsworthy subject.

I posted it for two reasons: a) The 100gb choice isn't listed as a normal upgrade option. People here are likely to be users, and also potential paying users. Classify this as more "useful link" than "news story". b) This is news.YCombinator. There's nothing wrong with YC companies gaining a large amount of attention here. On the flip side, if it isn't interesting/useful then don't vote it up.

Thank you for posting it. 2 of my friends have already upgraded as they were hitting the cap on their 50GB accounts.

Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by mikebo »

Dropbox is great when you need realtime access to your files. I have a free account and use it for syncning some music and important files between home and work.

If you're only using it for backup purposes, there are a lot of cheaper alternatives. I've been using Mozy (home vesion) for a year and it has unlimited space for $5/month. I don't get realtime access, but for backup it's great. As a bonus, their sync program lets you specify your own encryption key so they can't even view your file data (file names/directory structure is still open).

Re: Dropbox 100GB Plan

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Post by mattmaroon »

unalone wrote: post #2

I'm not certain if this is "news" per se. It's interesting, and I'm glad that Dropbox is staying kickass, but there's not much discussion to be held, nor is this a particularly newsworthy subject.

I wouldn't even mind it if it were a blog post or something. This just takes me to a log in page. Then I log in, and it takes me to an order page.
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