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There are significant costs to encryption. Any deduplication is gone, losing a single "chunk" invalidates the entire file with no hope of recovery, and, more im
by insanitybit 4y ago
There are significant costs to encryption. Any deduplication is gone, losing a single "chunk" invalidates the entire file with no hope of recovery, and, more importantly, support costs are way higher - "I lost a password" becomes "I lost every file, I'll never recover them".
- laluser 4y agoDedeuplication is a huge cost at scale.
- insanitybit 4y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Deduplication by hash is free and exactly how Dropbox works, as I recall.
- dogma1138 4y agoDeduplication doesn’t work with client side encryption, at least not securely because it at the least exposes that the file already exists.
- insanitybit 4y agoYes, we agree.
- layer8 4y agoThe non-business plans (Plus/Family) are already not cheap, especially if you only need a fraction of the storage space.