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1tb is already $100/month on EC2. (Of course, you'd need a running instance to do anything with it.) The real gain with Dropbox is with their incredibly seamles
by hyperbovine 14y ago
1tb is already $100/month on EC2. (Of course, you'd need a running instance to do anything with it.) The real gain with Dropbox is with their incredibly seamless client. DMCA and FISA do not matter to most users.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoBare storage is $95/TB/month on S3, too (plus i/o charges), no running instance required. The rest of your comment is well-taken; there are otherdesktop clients for S3 but nothing that I've seen is anywhere near as convenient as Dropbox (which is itself using S3 for the actual storage, of course). User experience matters.