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Storage space is so cheap nowadays. I find it very hard to be enticed by even more free cloud storage. I doubt that offering me more and more would help. I wou
by chippy 13y ago
Storage space is so cheap nowadays. I find it very hard to be enticed by even more free cloud storage. I doubt that offering me more and more would help.
I would be interested in an application that makes agreements with the ISPs that have throttling or download limits so that traffic to and from their servers don't count.
- malditojavi 13y agoIndeed. Offering for free something that gets cheaper as time passes, I don't if can be considered as clever marketing or not.
- gcb0 13y agonot to mention you got 50g for referring a friend, or just registering a second account, so almost everyone already is at 50g
- blueblob 13y agoI believe that it was clever marketing when google first did it when gmail was first released. I feel like the storage is only part of the service, it's access to your files everywhere that they are really trying to sell.
- BlackDeath3 13y agoKnowing that most cars are bound to depreciate quickly wouldn't stop me from accepting a nice, new, free one.
- slg 13y agoYeah, with storage so cheap who needs net neutrality?
- rschmitty 13y ago> Storage space is so cheap nowadays. Someone tell Dropbox of this news
- samolang 13y agoI pay $99 a year for >100GB. You don't think that's cheap?
- dangrossman 13y agoA 1TB hard drive retails for $50. If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago> If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive. Dropbox isn't storage (cold, unconnected drive). It's universal storage with multiple endpoints of connectivity, always available. This isn't to create an argument of any sort, but just to clarify they're two different things for those who might not understand that.
- samolang 13y agoNot to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoYou still do. Replication =! Backups. You should be taking snapshots in time of your Dropbox account (unless you're using their Packrat offering, which provides versioning).
- samolang 13y agoIf my hard drive breaks it doesn't delete the file from their servers. You'd need to have a hard drive break in a specific manner in which it corrupts the file and then have the corrupted file be replicated. Even then Dropbox maintains copies of all versions of your files for 30 days, so you'd have to not notice the corruption for 30 days in order to actually lose the file.