All your iTunes purchases are stored in the cloud, yeah. Most of my Movies/TV Shows......ummmm......aren't *cough*
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Dropbox Expands Pro Plan With Improved Security Controls, New 1TB/$10 Monthly Plan
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All your iTunes purchases are stored in the cloud, yeah. Most of my Movies/TV Shows......ummmm......aren't *cough*
I was a pretty early adopter of Dropbox. At some point, going off a tip I saw in their user forums, I requested a 10GB account at $5/month. A worse deal than 100GB at $10/month for sure, but I wasn't using anywhere close to 100GB so it was fine. I beefed it up by maxing out every bonus I could find and ended up around 20GB.
Then, a couple years ago, they emailed me out of the blue and said they were just going to make my account free, I guess for being an early adopter. Pretty cool. So I've stuck with them partially out of loyalty and also just because the client works quite smoothly and reliably.
That said, I'm a bit torn here — not 100% sure I *need* 1TB of storage, and unsure what Apple's new iCloud offering will be like.
Then, a couple years ago, they emailed me out of the blue and said they were just going to make my account free, I guess for being an early adopter. Pretty cool. So I've stuck with them partially out of loyalty and also just because the client works quite smoothly and reliably.
That said, I'm a bit torn here — not 100% sure I *need* 1TB of storage, and unsure what Apple's new iCloud offering will be like.
Don't see how it is like dropbox, with dropbox your files are stored on their servers (well, Amazons). With this your files are stored on a USB hard drive or USB DAS.
If you want cheap and cheerful then go for BitTorrent Sync. It is also like 'the cloud' but without a $100 usb adaptor. In either case its still not like Dropbox or OneDrive or Box or Google Drive.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I wish the mac client could show all folders and only sync the ones I select. But then still allow me to browse file metadata as if they actually did exist on my computer.
With that I would sign up for the $10/mo plan instantly. Without it though it is essentially the same as using any other service as I have to use the web interface to get to files. So for now I can just use dropbox and some other service for storing large files off my disk...
Actually, I have found both One Drive and Dropbox to have slower upload speeds in my house.
Google Drive, on the other hand, is lightning fast. It offers the same $10/month plan for 1TB, although I am on a legacy plan paying $20/year and couldn't be happier.
I just tested it out with the same file going to all services (one after the other, of course).
Dropbox took 2 minutes 39 seconds.
One Drive took 3 minutes 47 seconds.
Google Drive took 47 seconds.
I love the ultra reliable Dropbox syncing though. And Google's client is really flaky, most of the time it auto quits or is unable to connect.
I just wish Dropbox was faster
Google Drive, on the other hand, is lightning fast. It offers the same $10/month plan for 1TB, although I am on a legacy plan paying $20/year and couldn't be happier.
I just tested it out with the same file going to all services (one after the other, of course).
Dropbox took 2 minutes 39 seconds.
One Drive took 3 minutes 47 seconds.
Google Drive took 47 seconds.
I love the ultra reliable Dropbox syncing though. And Google's client is really flaky, most of the time it auto quits or is unable to connect.
I just wish Dropbox was faster
I would actually recommend limiting upload, it can affect download and using the internet in general if your upload is too congested (servers have a difficult time telling if you are still there or not and tend to sort of "give up" when they don't get a fast enough response from your computer).
I rarely limit download unless I have a lot going through and still need a big chunk of the connection.
Not a bad suggestion. Suggest it on the Dropbox website and use the Selective Sync feature with your Mac's desktop client in the meantime.
Exactly.
I need more than the 3.25GB that I have with Dropbox today... but I don't need 100GB.
And I certainly don't need 1TB either.
It's not that I can't afford $100/yr for Dropbox... it's the principle of the matter. They need more pricing options.
Same here. I use under 1GB, so free for me.
Beside it took forever to load the equivalent of 1GB. Can't imagine loading 100GB+
hubiC offers 10TB for $10/month and for the privacy conscious, none of it gets hosted in a US data centre so you don't have to worry about the Patriot Act.
Outstanding news. I had been hoping they would offer a better pricing plan in response to Apple's iCloud pricing and they have. I am very pleased with how Dropbox is handling my photos and with the new plan no need to switch to iCloud Photos. In fact, I will now be able to upload my videos to Dropbox also.
if you pay the whole year you save $20, so 1 year for $8.25 a month for 1TB is awesome. It will cost you $40 more a year than what you want to pay, but will have much more storage.
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Same here, was wondering this as well. Says 134 gb.
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I wish I should share this data as a family account, instead of sharing a 10 gig file with my son who has only a 5gb account.
OneDrive has good pricing, but it simply doesn't work with the 300,000 third party apps that Dropbox does. Oh how the tables have turned on Microsoft!
Dunno, I have 50Mb/50Mb FiOS so it works pretty well. It's not like you would regularly back up the whole 1TB. It's all incremental so after the first upload it's just a matter of staying up to date. Even an initial upload of, say, 500GB would take (500GB*8/50Mb/s) = 80000s = 22 hours at full blast.
It would be a pain, but it's very realistic, and ~20Mb+ upload speeds are not uncommon anymore.
I've yet to really come across this problem in my use cases, but I do come across this issue any time I go to upload a YouTube video on my home connection. It just eats up everything it can and nobody else gets to do anythingjust opening Google might take a minute or it might time out. My home line is 100 down 10 up. Really wish these companies would bump up the residential upload speed. Century Link 1 gig symmetrical fiber just came to my town, but it's not in my neighborhood yet. Looks like it will be decently priced too.
I just read on CNET that Dropbox intends to "roll-out features to existing Pro users over the next few days."
I too have a Pro account. I also have a rMBP with a 1 TB hard drive. Gonna be backing up my entire drive to Dropbox! No more MacDropAny for me!
And one comment about Dropbox vs. iCloud...Dropbox is so much nicer for me because it allows streaming (music/videos). Apps which use iCloud seem to require a download before they start. Not sure if iCloud drive will change this behavior, but until then, I'll stick with Dropbox.
I too have a Pro account. I also have a rMBP with a 1 TB hard drive. Gonna be backing up my entire drive to Dropbox! No more MacDropAny for me!
And one comment about Dropbox vs. iCloud...Dropbox is so much nicer for me because it allows streaming (music/videos). Apps which use iCloud seem to require a download before they start. Not sure if iCloud drive will change this behavior, but until then, I'll stick with Dropbox.