Why 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.<p>They squandered my click-through this blog post earned.
I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G). Kudos foe the increased storage though.<p>Not having the pricing page live yet is kinda weird.
I had really hoped this would happen in response to competitors like Google Drive. Now it's hear and I can only say: YAAAY!!<p>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.
If I'm calculating this correctly, S3 costs about $12.50 per 100GB per month (and that's not including any http requests you make).<p>How is Dropbox (I assume they store data in S3) offering a <i>lower</i> price than that?<p>I know they de-dupe data but is there enough common data being stored for them to be able to charge so little?
Still about 2X the price of Google Drive, but close enough to make me not switch which I had been considering.<p><a href="http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2374993" rel="nofollow">http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...</a>
Yet 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).<p>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.
Thank 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.
My issues with dropbox is not storage and price (I'm happy to pay not to have all my data with 1 provider), but speed.<p>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.<p>The problem was that the photos only uploaded at a rate of around 50kbps to 70kbps from the hotel (wired connection).<p>Fair enough... must be hotel or local internet access.<p>Frustrated at the speed I tried a local internet cafe... same speed.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>Before this trip I hadn't prioritised upload speed for a cloud storage provider, now I would.<p>I'm fine paying twice what Google charge, but still want 2 things more than anything:<p>1) Client side encryption of all non-public, non-shared files.<p>2) Faster upload speed.
This 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 <i>awful</i> experience with Google. Tons of syncing issues and the background app that does the syncing is awful.<p>I've never had a problem with my free Dropbox account - and I can't wait to move over to this.
I wish there was an option to encrypt all the data not in pbulic folders...<p>I like dropbox. I think they are providing a great service. I just wish they at least pretended it was a hard decision.<p>I guess it's pretty easy to live with security concessions like this when people want to give you barrels of money.
Hang 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.<p>Jolly decent I'd say
I 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.<p>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.
I 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).<p>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.
I 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.
I'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.
> or those of you who need even more space, a brand new 500 GB plan is also joining the posse!<p>Do they mean that it's happening in the future? I don't see the plan on the pricing page.
My 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 ;)
I really wish Dropbox would add the ability for arbitrary directory syncing. This single "dropbox" folder is so annoying.<p>Until them, I'm quite content with one of their competitors.