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Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by itafroma »

smackfu wrote: post #7

The unlimited storage is a pretty smart play. It makes it much harder to compare this head-to-head with Google Drive.

While they talk about "unlimited" storage, it's actually set to 1,000 GB: all the quotas throughout the UI are set at 1,000 GB, and you have to contact them if and when you want to go over that amount (they do mention this stipulation on the features page[1]).

I've gotten close (~850 GB), but never over so I'm not sure if it's a "no-questions-asked, 1,000-GB-is-just-a-sanity-check" type of conversation, or if they start to get more hands-on and want a really good reason for going over.

[1]: https://www.dropbox.com/business/features

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by itafroma »

molsongolden wrote: post #22

Does dropbox allow others to upload to specific folders within your account? Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder?

> Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder?

Yes, as long as they have their own Dropbox account (free version's fine for this purpose). You can otherwise share read-only access to folders with anyone.

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

malanj wrote: post #17

Unless they drop the price soon we're going to move away from them. It sounds silly to argue over $15/user/month, but in comparison to Google Drive it's just started feeling too expensive. I really like the product, but I don't know if any product in a commoditized space can sustain such a price premium.

For Dropbox, it is their core business. For Google, it's a drop in their massive bucket of cash that comes from advertising. If business reliability matters to you, Dropbox seems comparatively better.

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by HorizonXP »

molsongolden wrote: post #22

Does dropbox allow others to upload to specific folders within your account? Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder?

I've used Citrix ShareFile for this purpose, and it works wonderfully. Great thing is that they "brand" it for your company.

Worth checking out.

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by tnorthcutt »

give users one Dropbox for personal stuff and another for work stuff. Users can easily access both Dropboxes from any of their devices.

Sounds awesome!

Minimum 5 users

Well, phooey. This seems...arbitrary. Do they enforce this limit just to reduce support queries from low-profit customers?

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by RALaBarge »

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #24
malanj wrote: post #17

Unless they drop the price soon we're going to move away from them. It sounds silly to argue over $15/user/month, but in comparison to Google Drive it's just started feeling too expensive. I really like the product, but I don't know if any product in a commoditized space can sustain such a price premium.

For Dropbox, it is their core business. For Google, it's a drop in their massive bucket of cash that comes from advertising. If business reliability matters to you, Dropbox seems comparatively better.

I dont think it is fair to equate the fact that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox, just based on the fact that Google has more irons in the fire compared to Dropbox. They also have orders of magnitude more employees and resources than Dropbox.

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by spindritf »

malanj wrote: post #17

Unless they drop the price soon we're going to move away from them. It sounds silly to argue over $15/user/month, but in comparison to Google Drive it's just started feeling too expensive. I really like the product, but I don't know if any product in a commoditized space can sustain such a price premium.

Well, it's $15/user for unlimited storage. Google Apps is $5/user for 30GB for each user, and then you have to start buying additional storage with "licenses"[1] which brings the price a little closer to Dropbox if you have a lot of data. I only use a Google Apps account so I don't know how well the clients work with multiple accounts (private Gmail and Apps). Maybe Dropbox will handle it better?

Obviously, Google Apps gives you much more than just Google Drive so the comparison will greatly depend on what other services you need/use, what your employees and contractors already know, and whether you have Linux clients since Goolge Drive still doesn't support Linux.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by rhc2104 »

btgeekboy wrote: post #6

Does $180/user/year seem excessively high to anyone else?

In addition to everyone else's comments on pricing, it's $125/user/year if you pay annually (additional users after the first 5 users, which are $795/year).

Re: Dropbox for Business

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Post by derefr »

RALaBarge wrote: post #27
nileshtrivedi wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Dropbox, it is their core business. For Google, it's a drop in their massive bucket of cash that comes from advertising. If business reliability matters to you, Dropbox seems comparatively better.

I dont think it is fair to equate the fact that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox, just based on the fact that Google has more irons in the fire compared to Dropbox. They also have orders of magnitude more employees and resources than Dropbox.

I think there are two kinds of "reliability" getting conflated here. There's reliability as in "this is built on the stable foundation of a big system and has a bunch of engineers ensuring it's Highly Available" -- both Google and Dropbox can give you that. Then there's reliability as in "this product won't blow away in the corporate-political wind" -- and Dropbox is the only one who can truly say that. (Though Google Drive is pretty core to a lot of stuff Google does, e.g. Android, so it's probably not going anywhere either.)
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