Dropbox's Free Storage Plan Now Limited to Three Devices

[BigMcGuire]

As a loyal Dropbox Plus subscriber I never, ever realized this until you posted it. Office 365 all of a sudden sounds incredibly enticing. It'll no more per month for me and yet I'll have the always up-to-date Office suite on all of my devices. Thanks for the epiphany!

I used Dropbox for YEARS until this. Office 365 is great. My mother in law, my wife, myself and all of our devices all get Office + each one of our own Outlook accounts has 1TB of storage. OneDrive has REALLY matured over the last few years. The Online collaboration features are on par with Google - we use it at work now. Been an Office 365 subscriber for years now.

 

[pika2000]

This doesn't actually affect me, but if dropbox offer some kind of middle of the road pricing for less than 1TB I'd be more likely to upgrade, but I don't need 1TB of cloud storage. I need like 50-100GB, and I'm not paying for space I'm not going to use.

Ditto. That’s my annoyance with Dropbox as well, that they don’t have any middle tiers. However, obviously the can do what they did because they can, as so far Dropbox is the most stable and best performance I’ve experienced amongst the other cloud syncing services.

 

[Romeo_Nightfall]

Dropbox is like Apple, greedy.
Why not offer a dollar one per month plan for people like me, who like their service but use it not really heavy.

Am not a marketing guy nor have data but I guess it could generate a lot of cash flow ...

I want to pay for things but a reasonable price, especially when there are a lot of free alternatives like google and OneDrive, iCloud

 

[pat500000]

Drop box...you’re already dropping your boxes.

 

[iVoid]

Well, fortunately I only have 3 devices, although I have about a dozen devices still listed in Dropbox.

 

[matthew12]

Well, I've used Dropbox since they used to let you refer people for more storage, so if this starts to annoy me a lot (which it inevitably will), I think I'll start moving everything over to OneDrive. I only have around 8 GB free on Dropbox, but with O365 I have 1 TB.

 

[deeddawg]

Time to start migrating off of Dropbox, I guess. I have four devices I regularly use.

I'd have paid a buck or two a month, but not $100/yr.

 

[SigEp265]

As a loyal Dropbox Plus subscriber I never, ever realized this until you posted it. Office 365 all of a sudden sounds incredibly enticing. It'll no more per month for me and yet I'll have the always up-to-date Office suite on all of my devices. Thanks for the epiphany!
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What do you mean it would zero out your files?

The file out be there but the size would be 0.0kb ... in other words, corrupt. Perhaps it was a sync issue between multiple devices on multiple operating systems...

 

[deeddawg]

Guess I'll be switching 1Password over to iCloud syncing and uninstalling it from my gaming PC.

(iPhone, iPad, iMac, PC)

Haven't tried it myself, but there is an iCloud client for Windows10, perhaps it would work with the 1Password app there?

 

[nutmac]

Dropbox is like Apple, greedy.
Why not offer a dollar one per month plan for people like me, who like their service but use it not really heavy.

Am not a marketing guy nor have data but I guess it could generate a lot of cash flow ...

I want to pay for things but a reasonable price, especially when there are a lot of free alternatives like google and OneDrive, iCloud

But Apple does have multiple pricing tiers, among the cheapest:

• Free: 5 GB
• $0.99/month: +50 GB
• $2.99/month: +200 GB and Family Sharing
• $9.99/month: +2 TB and Family Sharing

Dropbox's pricing tier is:

• Free: 2 GB, but you can earn more with referral
• $8.25-9.99/month: +1 TB, with offline folders
• $16.58-$19.99/month: +2 TB, with offline folders and smart sync

 

[pdaholic]

Sad to say it then, but bye Dropbox! Desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, so I’m already excluded.

If you’re using their service for free, I don’t think they will miss you.

I would switch fully to iCloud, but there is still no way to simply stream, say, a video file from iCloud without having to first download it. That has been Dropbox’s strength for me.

 

[jljue]

Most people that I know seem to use Dropbox most commonly, which is why I can sync Dropbox with my Synology NAS and use Synology Drive as a means of accessing Dropbox, should I need to access those files from a 4th device.

 

[v0lume4]

The file out be there but the size would be 0.0kb ... in other words, corrupt. Perhaps it was a sync issue between multiple devices on multiple operating systems...

Yikes. Not good. I'd be livid if I lost some files like that.

 

[Xenomorph]

This is fine. Lots of stuff supports OneDrive and other services.

 

[akidd]

Well, fortunately I only have 3 devices, although I have about a dozen devices still listed in Dropbox.

Likewise. I could get it down to three and might have to. DB’s simplicity was its key, zip then just drag and drop. But I understand entirely it has to (for the first time I think) stop running at a loss.

 

[turtle777]

If you’re using their service for free, I don’t think they will miss you.

Well, they will miss the revenue they thought they would get from you, but it will never materialize.

If there was a $1 or $2 / month plan, many would sign up.
Not so with $10.

Essentially, they will not get any new paying customers with this move.

-t

 

[thisisnotmyname]

Not a good sign for DropBox. Sounds like they're in trouble. I'd think Google Drive, One Drive, and iCloud have all been taking a lot of their users' data. Probably making it even harder to convert people to their paid tier. Their solution is to introduce pain to their users and hope they convert more than they drive away to those other platforms. Good luck - Google, Apple, and MS all have deeper pockets and can keep attracting your audience away longer than you can burn.

 

[coolfactor]

Drop box is over priced compared to other services like OneDrive and Google Drive. This just makes it easier for me to not go with DropBox.

Dropbox has been more flexible than Google Drive, in my experience (can't speak for OneDrive). Google Drive has had trouble syncing certain kinds of files, which makes it useless in my workflow. Maybe that's been fixed, I don't know.

Bottom line is they are all not all equivalent in their ability to sync all kinds of files. In particularly, Macs have a special "package" file format that Google Drive refused to sync in my experience. This is essentially a folder that behaves like a singular file.

 

[CptnJustc]

Hmm, I have a Qnap NAS and a Synology one, guess I'll have to try their cloud storage services. Anybody have opinions on them?

 

[zakarhino]

Six months ago I switched from Dropbox.com to Sync.com and I've been very happy with the change. Sync uses end-to-end encryption on everything they store (Dropbox doesn't) and Sync has no knowledge of what they're storing for you (Dropbox does). Their free plan is 5GB with unlimited devices. Plus all Sync's servers are in Canada so they're beyond the reach of US government snooping. To be clear I'm just a casual user and I'm not storing anything bad, but companies are either serious about protecting the privacy of their customers or they're not. Sync definitely is.

Canada are part of Five Eyes, they're no where near 'beyond the reach of US government'

The only way to be 100% secure is to use open source software that you host yourself.

 

[Rigby]

Annoying. Dropbox still has by far the best syncing system. The other services don't even support differential syncing on the block-level, which is crucial for me since I use it to host large-ish Veracrypt containers that I mount on different computers (without differential syncing, the entire container file will be uploaded again even if you only change a single byte inside).

Also, I agree with what others have said about their pricing: they urgently need a medium tier. Many don't need anywhere near 1TB.

 

[small_CAPS]

I'm happy with Amazon drive so far.

 

[Scooz]

Seems Google or MS have hired away a Dropbox marketing person and made him/her remain in the Dropbox team...

Dropbox has to feel the decline, how could they add such a suicidal step to the process? New features and cheaper pro plans would be a way, but this? You die and now you even start bullying me?

 

[vicviper789]

This is a bit of a bummer and 3 devices is way too few. I have 8 just for myself.


How hard would it be to turn your Dropbox folder into a shared network folder ? Atleast then I could have one Dropbox accounts data available to multiple devices

 

[Allthings-I]

I didn't know about sync, but having been a Paying Dropbox user for years, can you guys chime in on what I should do? my main reason for using dropbox is to control permissions to files, and editing rights to files for my work.

Sync seems really good, but is the usability same as Dropbox?