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Why doesn't DropBox just stop doing de-duplication? They must have the money for the storage? The bandwidth savings for users isn't that big of a deal in most
by kenjackson 16y ago
Why doesn't DropBox just stop doing de-duplication? They must have the money for the storage? The bandwidth savings for users isn't that big of a deal in most cases. I expect that if I have a 2GB file that I'm uploading a 2GB file. I don't cross my fingers that you already have big chunks of it.
This just seems like the type of thing that someone much smarter than I can and will exploit in the future.
- wazoox 16y agoDropbox provides lots of storage for free. Therefore they have a strong incentive to provide this free storage at the lowest possible cost, and deduplication definitely makes sense for themselves if not the users.