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Not necessarily. Many people pay for 2 TB without actually needing 2 TB. I currently pay for Dropbox Pro, which has 2 TB of space available, but I'm only using
by bad_user 8y ago
Not necessarily. Many people pay for 2 TB without actually needing 2 TB. I currently pay for Dropbox Pro, which has 2 TB of space available, but I'm only using 300 GB. I'm pretty sure that at this point people going over 500 GB are a tiny minority.
When you pay for 30 TB on the other hand, you probably need it, so their actual cost might be reflected well in that price. This is basically the long tail effect, so when you optimize the price for the majority, price increases are not linear.
- PakG1 8y agoThis is a fantastic example and explanation (kudos to you) of value pricing vs cost pricing.
- dmix 8y agoWhich basically every book on pricing recommends doing - pricing on value. People always apply Walmart style retail pricing models onto everything - including most entrepreneurs to their own detriment. Which is a terrible idea for software and most other non-retail/non-low-margin businesses.
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoLol, I would just buy multiple 2 TB subscriptions from different accounts.
- comboy 8y agoServices usually offer convenience. If you don't care about it then you can already register on tons of sites with multiple accounts and get vast amounts of free storage. This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now.
- nolok 8y ago> This and they have been working on making many accounts hard for some time now I disagree with that. The only "hard" part is stuff that absolutely makes sense during the creation part if you're making several: captcha, not allowing the same phone number to be the recovery for more than ~10 accounts, etc ... It's all very obvious protection against spam/mass registration, and if you are an actual person it takes only a few minutes to get around. And if you go for paid accounts, all of those limits cease existing. But beside that, once you have the accounts, it's all very friendly, the multi login where you don't even have to logout / log in other account / logout again / relog in first account, account delegation so you can have a master account with automatic access to others, library (apps, photos, ...) sharing, and all of that is on the free accounts ! It might be far from perfect, but compared to the other big ones Google is very friendly to multi-accounts users.
- bad_user 8y agoYou can just register a GSuite Business account, with unlimited storage. They have a fine print that says you need at least 5 users in your account or something, otherwise they limit you to 1 TB. However they are not enforcing that limit and on /r/DataHoarder/ you can see people with dozens of TB stored without issues. And even if they start enforcing it, if you pay for multiple accounts it would still be pretty cheap and you don't get this multi-account management overhead.
- nolok 8y agoSo if your main use of space is original quality pictures in google photos like me you basically can't use them ?
- lugg 8y agoProbably easier to exploit the biz plan thing Linus Tech tips did. https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Lol, I would just buy multiple 2 TB subscriptions from different accounts. If you don't mind multiple accounts and want to optimize on price, just get one 100GB subscription (for the expert help benefit), and lots of free accounts.