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Title: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 08, 2017, 01:57:39 PM
These buttheads require 3 licenses for their unlimited storage plan

Anyone happen to need unlimited storage at $240/yr?


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Yegolev on October 15, 2017, 10:46:23 AM
lol ?


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 15, 2017, 11:47:32 AM
¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Soulflame on October 15, 2017, 12:43:13 PM
$240 will buy you a 6 TB drive, free and clear.

Sooooo, I can't think of any reason why I would need to pay $20 a month to store data online.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 15, 2017, 01:14:40 PM
$240 will buy you a 6 TB drive, free and clear.

Sooooo, I can't think of any reason why I would need to pay $20 a month to store data online.

12tb plex server? + countless other files? + never losing your music, memes, or po^h^h memes?


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Yegolev on October 16, 2017, 06:51:47 AM
I don't think the "hard drive is better than cloud" argument can be won here.  I would choose optical storage if I went that way.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Merusk on October 16, 2017, 07:23:13 AM
Yeah, not having to carry around a HDD means cloud wins for storage with me. I keep a single 1tb HDD just for large install files and testing files. I regularly install/ uninstall Autodesk products and have to swap the same files between multiple Virtual machines (and have no server infrastructure.) That's the only advantage to the HDD for me. Other than that things go up into online storage.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Rendakor on October 16, 2017, 08:02:33 AM
$240 will buy you a 6 TB drive, free and clear.

Sooooo, I can't think of any reason why I would need to pay $20 a month to store data online.

12tb plex server? + countless other files? + never losing your music, memes, or po^h^h memes?
Dropbox doesn't care about files of, er, questionable legitimacy?


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 16, 2017, 08:08:35 AM
$240 will buy you a 6 TB drive, free and clear.

Sooooo, I can't think of any reason why I would need to pay $20 a month to store data online.

12tb plex server? + countless other files? + never losing your music, memes, or po^h^h memes?
Dropbox doesn't care about files of, er, questionable legitimacy?
I can't imagine why they'd care unless you started sharing them.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Yegolev on October 16, 2017, 08:24:52 AM
Only concerned about questionable currency.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Rendakor on October 16, 2017, 08:40:58 AM
$240 will buy you a 6 TB drive, free and clear.

Sooooo, I can't think of any reason why I would need to pay $20 a month to store data online.

12tb plex server? + countless other files? + never losing your music, memes, or po^h^h memes?
Dropbox doesn't care about files of, er, questionable legitimacy?
I can't imagine why they'd care unless you started sharing them.
Fair enough.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Samwise on October 16, 2017, 02:57:18 PM
I would not recommend storing anything SUPER illegal or publicly posting links to anything that's regular illegal.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 16, 2017, 05:09:22 PM
But

But

But


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Yegolev on October 17, 2017, 06:45:56 AM
I would not recommend storing anything SUPER illegal or publicly posting links to anything that's regular illegal.

Shush. :awesome_for_real:


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 17, 2017, 10:35:47 AM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/17/dropbox-professional-showcase-presentation-tools/

boy the professional plan misses the mark


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Samwise on October 17, 2017, 11:40:13 AM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/17/dropbox-professional-showcase-presentation-tools/

boy the professional plan misses the mark

Haha, I was just reading through the coverage (I worked on some of this stuff) and reflecting on the fact that it's the exact opposite of what you're looking for (i.e. more features rather than more storage).   :awesome_for_real:


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Chimpy on October 17, 2017, 03:08:24 PM
For the amount of storage you want, you might just want look at something like AWS. Though your outbound bandwidth charges might get a little nuts, it would probably still not cost you much more than Dropbox.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 17, 2017, 03:11:25 PM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/17/dropbox-professional-showcase-presentation-tools/

boy the professional plan misses the mark

Haha, I was just reading through the coverage (I worked on some of this stuff) and reflecting on the fact that it's the exact opposite of what you're looking for (i.e. more features rather than more storage).   :awesome_for_real:
I'm not even sure who needs those features (but not more space).


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Samwise on October 17, 2017, 03:28:56 PM
For the amount of storage you want, you might just want look at something like AWS. Though your outbound bandwidth charges might get a little nuts, it would probably still not cost you much more than Dropbox.

I just looked 'em up because I was pretty sure you'd end up paying more that way, and sure enough AWS charges $23.50/mo for 1TB of standard storage.   :awesome_for_real:  There's a reason Dropbox moved its backend (https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/) off of Amazon.

To be fair you can probably pare those costs down by fine-tuning your specific storage/access plan and shuffling stuff between different tiers but at that point you're basically writing your own storage system.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 17, 2017, 03:31:42 PM
Yea, AWS is not even remotely an option.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Chimpy on October 17, 2017, 04:23:22 PM
For the amount of storage you want, you might just want look at something like AWS. Though your outbound bandwidth charges might get a little nuts, it would probably still not cost you much more than Dropbox.

I just looked 'em up because I was pretty sure you'd end up paying more that way, and sure enough AWS charges $23.50/mo for 1TB of standard storage.   :awesome_for_real:  There's a reason Dropbox moved its backend (https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastructure/) off of Amazon.

To be fair you can probably pare those costs down by fine-tuning your specific storage/access plan and shuffling stuff between different tiers but at that point you're basically writing your own storage system.

Ahh, see I am not used to looking at their pricing scheme outside of the academic pricing we get.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Trippy on October 17, 2017, 04:45:58 PM
You can also get unlimited storage with Google if you can get 5 people for $120/year per person. So, pick your poison.

https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html?tab_activeEl=tabset-companies


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: Merusk on October 18, 2017, 05:22:41 AM
https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/17/dropbox-professional-showcase-presentation-tools/

boy the professional plan misses the mark

Haha, I was just reading through the coverage (I worked on some of this stuff) and reflecting on the fact that it's the exact opposite of what you're looking for (i.e. more features rather than more storage).   :awesome_for_real:
I'm not even sure who needs those features (but not more space).

Startups who want to LOOK like they're doing something but aren't actually doing anything except burning VC dough.


Title: Re: Dropbox Business Unlimited
Post by: schild on October 18, 2017, 06:40:17 AM
Dropbox isn't a startup anymore. It hasn't been for a while. That featureset is just wheelspinning without a full understanding of regular OR power users.