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Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space f

Being the one cloud service that sync across Linux, Windows, OS X with a native client, Dropbox is the service I'd like to give money for about 100GB of space for a couple of bucks a month, but I just don't need 1TB for $10 a month. So instead I use Google and wait in vain for a native Linux client that's probably never coming.

Retric 10y ago
Pro is $8.25 / month for 1TB on annual billing. I rarely see monthly pricing for under 5$. So, I don't think it's going to drop much at this point. https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1 https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1 IMO, 1TB is completly reasonble. You can get ~10 GB of storage several places for free which covers most things and minmaxing 2-3$ per month is generally a waste of time.
- apetresc 10y ago
  What a lot of us want is more granularity. I'm totally fine with their per-GB pricing, but if I (as a personal user) want more than 1TB, it is literally impossible to buy it from Dropbox. I would have to upgrade to a business plan, which makes no sense as I'm not a business. Basically, there are only 3 Dropbox tiers: 0, 1TB, or infinity.
  - ohazi 10y ago
    I gave up and just started using AWS S3 directly. I use a few GB, pay a few pennies for storage, a few more pennies for bandwidth if I'm moving stuff around, and that's it. I've never paid more than $10/month, and it's usually under $1/month.
    - ktta 10y ago
      that defeats the whole purpose of dropbox though. You can have a cheap ftp server for $10/year if you look hard enough. But the argument for dropbox is that you have a client for almost every platform you can use. With S3 you'll have to use a 3rd-party software, which might not function properly.
    - Whitestrake 10y ago
      What client(s) do you use to access your bucket? What kind of sharing features do they have? Is there a web frontend? And how do you deal with eventual consistency?
  - Retric 10y ago
    Dropbox is not charging per GB because they don't really pay per GB. Their model depends on people not having a lot of original content so you might have some home movies or whatnot but if you upload 500GB the bulk of that is probably 3rd party games / Movies etc. So really, most people are buying <30 GB of storage + a lot of bandwidth and a decent UI. With that in mind the number of people with more than 1TB to store either need a streaming service or actually have original content which breaks their model.
vthallam 10y ago
This is the exact reason i didn't switch to a pro yet. I love dropbox and all the syncing, but give me a plan below $5 with a relative storage. Google Drive gives 100GB at $2, that would be an amazing start for Dropbox.
- danieldk 10y ago
  That is not going to happen. Google can sell Google Drive space at a loss, since they have other sources of income (ads, Google Apps subscriptions, etc.). In fact, nothing from Google's terms holds them from mining your Google Drive data for ads (unless you are using Google Apps for Work). For Dropbox, storage is the only source of income. Most of their income comes from people like me who are modest users ( < 100GB, not a lot of transfer). Offering intermediate plans would make nearly all users high-loss users. (I also can't understand why people are expecting to pay only $2 per month for 100GB of highly redundant storage with a top-notch client.)
1123581321 10y ago
Was Dropbox more attractive to you when it offered 100GB storage since you would have used more of it? Why do you consider Linux support worth $0 (since you want to switch from one $1.99/mo service to another) instead of a number between $24/year and $120/year?
slyzmud 10y ago
As a linux user I use, Resilio Sync (formely Bittorrent Sync) with a VPS on serverhub.com . I pay $15 a year per 125 GB. It might not be as good as dropbox but the price worth it. I can even store the files encrypted. (I am not affiliated with neither Resilio sync or serverhub, just a happy user)
tornadoboy55 10y ago
Try OverGrive. It changed my (Linux) life. It's as good as the official OS X client.
- sid-kap 10y ago
  Insync is also very good.
  - tornadoboy55 10y ago
    > Go to site > $29 > Not your currency? > select € > €29 > Select £ > £29 Even going past the fact that OverGrive is $5, I won't support companies that think currency conversion is a way to leech more money from non-US customers. Yeah yeah taxes, but then the £ price should be around £27 and not £29. Its crystal clear what they're doing.
danieldk 10y ago
So instead I use Google And Google is permitted to mine your Google Drive data for advertising purposes. You are just paying in a different way. If that's acceptable to you, that is fine of course. But for me, data privacy is worth more than $2 or $3. (No, I don't trust Dropbox either, but for different reasons.)

Retric 10y ago

Pro is $8.25 / month for 1TB on annual billing. I rarely see monthly pricing for under 5$. So, I don't think it's going to drop much at this point. https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1 https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison?_tk=dbv1 IMO, 1TB is completly reasonble. You can get ~10 GB of storage several places for free which covers most things and minmaxing 2-3$ per month is generally a waste of time.

apetresc 10y ago
What a lot of us want is more granularity. I'm totally fine with their per-GB pricing, but if I (as a personal user) want more than 1TB, it is literally impossible to buy it from Dropbox. I would have to upgrade to a business plan, which makes no sense as I'm not a business. Basically, there are only 3 Dropbox tiers: 0, 1TB, or infinity.
- ohazi 10y ago
  I gave up and just started using AWS S3 directly. I use a few GB, pay a few pennies for storage, a few more pennies for bandwidth if I'm moving stuff around, and that's it. I've never paid more than $10/month, and it's usually under $1/month.
  - ktta 10y ago
    that defeats the whole purpose of dropbox though. You can have a cheap ftp server for $10/year if you look hard enough. But the argument for dropbox is that you have a client for almost every platform you can use. With S3 you'll have to use a 3rd-party software, which might not function properly.
  - Whitestrake 10y ago
    What client(s) do you use to access your bucket? What kind of sharing features do they have? Is there a web frontend? And how do you deal with eventual consistency?
- Retric 10y ago
  Dropbox is not charging per GB because they don't really pay per GB. Their model depends on people not having a lot of original content so you might have some home movies or whatnot but if you upload 500GB the bulk of that is probably 3rd party games / Movies etc. So really, most people are buying <30 GB of storage + a lot of bandwidth and a decent UI. With that in mind the number of people with more than 1TB to store either need a streaming service or actually have original content which breaks their model.

vthallam 10y ago

This is the exact reason i didn't switch to a pro yet. I love dropbox and all the syncing, but give me a plan below $5 with a relative storage. Google Drive gives 100GB at $2, that would be an amazing start for Dropbox.

danieldk 10y ago
That is not going to happen. Google can sell Google Drive space at a loss, since they have other sources of income (ads, Google Apps subscriptions, etc.). In fact, nothing from Google's terms holds them from mining your Google Drive data for ads (unless you are using Google Apps for Work). For Dropbox, storage is the only source of income. Most of their income comes from people like me who are modest users ( < 100GB, not a lot of transfer). Offering intermediate plans would make nearly all users high-loss users. (I also can't understand why people are expecting to pay only $2 per month for 100GB of highly redundant storage with a top-notch client.)

1123581321 10y ago

Was Dropbox more attractive to you when it offered 100GB storage since you would have used more of it? Why do you consider Linux support worth $0 (since you want to switch from one $1.99/mo service to another) instead of a number between $24/year and $120/year?

slyzmud 10y ago

As a linux user I use, Resilio Sync (formely Bittorrent Sync) with a VPS on serverhub.com . I pay $15 a year per 125 GB. It might not be as good as dropbox but the price worth it. I can even store the files encrypted. (I am not affiliated with neither Resilio sync or serverhub, just a happy user)

tornadoboy55 10y ago

Try OverGrive. It changed my (Linux) life. It's as good as the official OS X client.

sid-kap 10y ago
Insync is also very good.
- tornadoboy55 10y ago
  > Go to site > $29 > Not your currency? > select € > €29 > Select £ > £29 Even going past the fact that OverGrive is $5, I won't support companies that think currency conversion is a way to leech more money from non-US customers. Yeah yeah taxes, but then the £ price should be around £27 and not £29. Its crystal clear what they're doing.

danieldk 10y ago

So instead I use Google And Google is permitted to mine your Google Drive data for advertising purposes. You are just paying in a different way. If that's acceptable to you, that is fine of course. But for me, data privacy is worth more than $2 or $3. (No, I don't trust Dropbox either, but for different reasons.)