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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.
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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…
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I haven't had any problems with it yet (as a single user); I have had weird problems with dropbox when shared with lots of users actively editing files (conferences). Not really apples to apples comparison, true.
I briefly considered switching to Google Drive when it was released. I copied all the files in my Dropbox (57GB) to the GDrive folder and waited for everything to sync. After syncing, the GDrive client constantly used almost 500MB (yes, 0.5GB) of memory while Dropbox was always under 50MB (Windows 7)[1]. That's a huge deal for a program that's supposed to be always running. Also, the GDrive client often crashed while…
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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.
Right, but in my case, it would have been one file at a time.
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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.
Both paid and free accounts have 30 days of deleted file history by default.
I have the $99 plan. The one problem I have is that one of my computers has an SSD so I can't move more stuff to Dropbox on my desktop because it would kill my laptop, which is the reason I bought it. I do much of my work on my laptop out of my Dropbox dir. With so much Dropbox space, now I don't want every computer to have all my pics, videos, etc.
You can selectively choose which directories to sync per computer ( https://www.dropbox.com/help/175/en ).
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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.
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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.
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?
I pay for a 50gb account but use about 5% of it. I would imagine the vast majority of their users don't use anywhere near the full storage amount.
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.