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New Dropbox Pro plans
- keltex 14y agoStill about 2X the price of Google Drive, but close enough to make me not switch which I had been considering. http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2374993 http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
- gte910h 14y agoI've heard Google Drive best described as "Dropbox for those whom time is free".
- rdl 14y agoI 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.
- juriga 14y agoI 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 syncing and had problems syncing some weirdly named files that Dropbox handled perfectly. I hope GDrive gets over these issues soon, since they have some cool features (e.g. webapp integration, content-based image indexing). [1] https://twitter.com/jtuulos/status/211702650109046785 https://twitter.com/jtuulos/status/211702650109046785
- lelandbatey 14y agoYour right about the absurd use of memory by Gdrive. However, looking at my usage right now, my Google Chrome instances each use about as much as my GDrive, which for me is not a huge tradeoff, as Gdrive is just as useful to me as one of those Google Chrome instances. http://puu.sh/Hplk http://puu.sh/Hplk
- colinshark 14y agoI did the exact same thing, and had the same experience. Crashes, flakiness, slowness, and extreme resource use (RAM/CPU/bandwidth). The (up) sync time was also about 10 times that of Dropbox. Maybe they've fixed things, but the experience was pretty horrible all around.
- eldenbishop 14y agoNo kidding... my first sync basically made my PC useless for a good week. Over 1GB of memory and 100% processor usage for around 8 days to sync 35 GB of data.
- Lewisham 14y agoMy problem with Dropbox is that they aren't good custodians with my data. The password glitch could happen to anyone, but Arash's nonchalant original response was pretty shocking, and Dropbox haven't integrated anything like two-factor authentication. When I have to double authenticate in order to play Diablo 3, but I don't for all my data, I find that odd.
- bluedevil2k 14y agoThe auto-backup of pictures from my iPhone was such a killer feature it finally made me go all-in on DropBox and pay-up for the 50 Gb plan.
- rkudeshi 14y agoDropbox can auto-backup photos on iOS? That's news to me. I know they released something like that for Android, but I'm not seeing it anywhere in the iPhone app. How do I enable that?
- edanm 14y agoI had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!! I'll repeat it, for the billionth time: Dropbox is one of the companies that has drastically changed computing for me over the last few years. I absolutely adore it, and I simply cannot understand the many people who do not use Dropbox to host everything. All of my important, non-computer-specific files are in Dropbox, all of my projects are in Dropbox, all of my photos, all of my documents - in short, everything I care about is in Dropbox.
- luser001 14y agoSerious 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's not easy enough for my spouse to use, and I wouldn't recommend it to them. 1. simplify the client. 2. sharing is not intuitive 3. default setting should be that all folders are synchronized: the opposite of the current one.
- mootothemax 14y agoSerious 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 is a BIG bonus) 2) $20/month is an incredibly low price for peace of mind. Note: I'm not the same author as the grandparent comment.
- hcurtiss 14y agoWhat makes you think that, if their pricing proves low, they won't simply increase prices? And marginally so? They'd have to more than quadruple prices before DropBox is the better backup solution.
- parfe 14y agoWhy would you announce new prices prior to the new price page launching? I immediately went to see the new pricing options only to be met with the same old prices. They squandered my click-through this blog post earned.
- jwallaceparker 14y agoAgreed. That is so annoying. I just spent five minutes digging through my Pro account to see why I hadn't been updated to the 100G limit. Then went back to the article to see this at the bottom: "All this goodness goes live on our pricing page this evening, so stay tuned." Ugh.
- glimcat 14y agoIt'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].
- gamzer 14y agoWasn'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.
- ja2ke 14y ago"Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans." I don't know what's complicated about this. It reads like new pricing = old pricing with 2x the storage. Am I missing something, too?
- mikeash 14y agoHe's asking why they would announce it before they implement it.
- cletus 14y agoI 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.
- bossfo 14y ago> I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G). Agreed. For those of us who use less storage (and especially 30 GB or less), Google Drive is clearly the better deal. Although others seem to have experienced problems with Google Drive, it has worked essentially flawlessly for me and, because of that, I plan to let my Dropbox subscription expire. For every person who wants to keep 100 GB of data synched, I bet there are at least five who want to synch 30 GB or less.
- jabits 14y agoAlthough Microsoft is not as cool these days, I am liking the new SkyDrive (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/compare http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/skydrive/compare). (I also use a paid SpiderOak account for backup and sharing.)
- sigkill 14y agoIirc skydrive offers 25 gigs. I wonder why they're saying just 7 though. EDIT - Yep my account says 25. I'm thoroughly confused.
- nickbarnwell 14y agoIf 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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- citricsquid 14y ago> or those of you who need even more space, a brand new 500 GB plan is also joining the posse! Do they mean that it's happening in the future? I don't see the plan on the pricing page.
- melling 14y agoI 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.
- BrianLy 14y agoYou can exclude certain directories from synchronizing to your laptop if you want to.
- markgx 14y agoYou can selectively choose which directories to sync per computer (https://www.dropbox.com/help/175/en https://www.dropbox.com/help/175/en).
- melling 14y agoI guess it will. I bought Dropbox one morning in a panic when I thought my drive was dying. It turned out to be fine but I've been working out of the directory since then. Thanks.
- fmela 14y agoDropbox's Selective Sync feature would solve this problem for you, no?
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- jfernandez 14y agoI still think this is not cheap enough for the amount of storage you're getting. I'd love this service to displace products/services like crashplan where safely storing stuff becomes more of a live backup process so to speak. At this current price point most people really can't afford to back up their media in its entirety. I don't really mean pirated stuff either, I'm talking about home movie raws, photo dumps from DSLRs or even point and shoots. I think sitting on top of Amazon is really hurting their pricing and for a company of their scale and funding they should be looking into custom/owned data centers to drive down the price even further.
- nhangen 14y agoThank god, and just in time. I had just moved my Dropbox to my Google Drive folder, thinking about switching once Google got their kinks worked out (still facing a lot of sync problems and crashing issues), but I'd prefer not to switch. This might solve that problem for me.
- batgaijin 14y agoI wish there was an option to encrypt all the data not in pbulic folders... I like dropbox. I think they are providing a great service. I just wish they at least pretended it was a hard decision. I guess it's pretty easy to live with security concessions like this when people want to give you barrels of money.
- statictype 14y agoIf 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?
- acoyfellow 14y agoI'd be very interested in hearing more S3/Dropbox comparisons..
- dchuk 14y agoI 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.
- furyofantares 14y agoWhy do you pay for it, then?
- dchuk 14y agoI like paying for products that I enjoy, I figure I'd rather pay them $9/month than try and get enough referrals to get the space I need. Now it seems I've lucked out because of that decision I suppose.
- kalleboo 14y agoAnd even among those who do, a lot of that will be purchased music, movies etc that they can dedup. edit: not to mention shared folders. 45 GB of my account is a shared folder from work, which is probably shared among 10 users who all have to pay for the same data
- ErikHuisman 14y agoVolume discounts and long term contracts will bring the price down.
- cpuspin 14y agoThey actually linked to a video of fireworks.
- Semiapies 14y agoVideos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)
- keithpeter 14y agoPhotos half a meg each so 2000 per gig. 100k photos might happen, I have a couple of filing cabinets full of 35mm negatives and contact sheets (ok not family snaps). Put some music and videos in there and you are away.
- crazygringo 14y agoEven easier, RAW photos at 8MB each. Just 125 per gig.
- jcitme 14y agoNot even. My canon 7D murders my free account (at 10 gigs free...)... an hour of leisurely snapping pics can take a whole gig
- kalleboo 14y agoHalf a meg each? Even my cell phone takes 2-3 MB photos. And then if use iPhoto or something, it stores the original and edited photos separately. My humble personal iPhoto library is 65 GB.
- hussong 14y agoI guess it all adds up, you can easily shoot 1GB of photos on a weekend with current cameras.
- JacobAldridge 14y agoI just looked at my Pictures folder (moving countries later in the year, so seeing if Dropbox monthly might be a short term additional copy solution for those irreplaceable files). Currently at 99.1GB. And there's 83 days of travelling (and photographing) to go before arriving back home.
- hospadam 14y agoThis came at a perfect time for me. When Google Drive came out, I made the leap. GD was priced significantly better than DropBox, so I went with GD. However, I've had an awful experience with Google. Tons of syncing issues and the background app that does the syncing is awful. I've never had a problem with my free Dropbox account - and I can't wait to move over to this.
- lukifer 14y agoThis puts Dropbox into a useful range for me, and re-invokes the dilemma: trust Dropbox, or continue waiting patiently for an AeroFS invite.
- jcitme 14y agoI have an AeroFS account. Never use it; their client is slower than molasses, takes up a ton of RAM, and frequently spikes my CPU. This is on both windows and linux machines... Personally, Dropbox + 20mb truecrypt volume for more sensitive files is good enough for me.
- whereareyou 14y agoI have a teams account for my business and it is fantastic. I have to admit though, I was hoping it would jump to 2 TB when I saw the headlines today.
- keithpeter 14y agoHang on; old free:cheapest paid ratio was 1:25. New free:cheapest paid ratio is roughly 1:5. Plus 18Gb will store my teaching materials until I retire! 400Mb does me for a year or so including the scans from paper I do on my photocopier. Jolly decent I'd say
- executive 14y agoDoes this plan let you access other people's account without a password?
- gyom 14y agoYes, but that feature is unreliable and I've never managed to get it working. =)
- xxiao 14y agoso, it's 2x of Amazon cloud's price?
- timaelliott 14y agoI really wish Dropbox would add the ability for arbitrary directory syncing. This single "dropbox" folder is so annoying. Until them, I'm quite content with one of their competitors.
- jason_slack 14y agoThey do have 'Selective Sync' but those folders do have to be in your Dropbox folder for that. So not exactly what you are looking for unless you re-organize to use that structure.
- hussong 14y agoYou could use symlinks to add arbitrary folders to your dropbox.
- timaelliott 14y agoYeah, just not cutting it for me. I understand the workarounds but the reality is they shouldn't be required. I should be able to right-click a directory and "Add to Dropbox"
- nanospider 14y agoI'm pretty happy with Skydrive. 25GB for free.
- tuple 14y agoMy 50G plan is currently running at 44G and I was investigating FOSS options since much doesn't technically need to be in dropbox. This saves me some tech time ;)
- twodayslate 14y agoFinally!
- kwijibob 14y agoI was desperately hoping for this to happen also. I love dropbox. Use it across linux/windows/mac/android.
- 6ren 14y agoYet again, Dropbox does it in style: charging more for a higher tier, but because the others get doubled in size for free, it's impossible to feel squeezed by it - because it's not squeezing, it's literally all good. Of course, storage prices have probably dropped by more than half since the original prices, but that doesn't make it any less cool (partly because consumer needs typically don't increase as fast as technology prices fall). I keep expecting Dropbox to announce a cloud service, because I don't understand their high valuation for just data. But maybe it's just that if you host someone's data, you become "their OS" - their central point of interaction with their devices - and that is enough.
- TimJRobinson 14y agoI really hope they improve indexing speed with these updates. Maybe I'm a but more of a heavy user than normal but I have 500k files in dropbox going a little over 70gb and recently indexing even a few hundred more small files is painfully slow and the hard drive is constantly thrashing (so slow that I've had to turn dropbox off while working as the computer is almost unusable). It seems indexing speed has become slower and slower the more files I already have in my dropboc. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm on windows 7 with a standard 7200 rpm HDD (only 18 months old too). The pc runs nice and fast when dropbox is closed.
- five_star 14y agoThis is good news for those who need bigger storage. However, I just use dropbox occasionally. Thanks anyway dropbox!
- buro9 14y agoMy issues with dropbox is not storage and price (I'm happy to pay not to have all my data with 1 provider), but speed. I recently was in Greece and added 5GB of photos to my Dropbox so that if I had my camera stolen (or left it accidentally on a bar table) that I wouldn't lose the photos. The problem was that the photos only uploaded at a rate of around 50kbps to 70kbps from the hotel (wired connection). Fair enough... must be hotel or local internet access. Frustrated at the speed I tried a local internet cafe... same speed. I didn't actually manage to get all of the photos uploaded and when I was back in the UK I plugged in and they continued to upload at the same rate. Even though I have a 10MB uplink here. I ran some quick tests uploading large files to a few boxes I have in different places, and all achieved at least half a meg upload speed. Dropbox stubbornly remained on less than 100kbps. I'd tried unchecking the "Limit upload rate" both whilst in Greecen and in the UK, to no avail. Not that I would spend more time on this than it needed, I'd already made a second copy of my photos by copying them to the laptop. Before this trip I hadn't prioritised upload speed for a cloud storage provider, now I would. I'm fine paying twice what Google charge, but still want 2 things more than anything: 1) Client side encryption of all non-public, non-shared files. 2) Faster upload speed.
- alenlpeacock 14y agoYou might like http://spacemonkey.com http://spacemonkey.com (when it becomes available). Client-side encryption, 60x faster upload, 10x more space.
- ApolloRising 14y agoI'm a drop box paying customer and would rather have seen them implement 2 factor authentication. Simple cell phone text message confirmation when anyone tries to add or connect to the account would help.