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No additional space on Business Advanced
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
Unfortunately, the Dropbox Advanced plan with *as much storage as needed* is no longer offered, it had been changed to a minimum of a 3 user account with 5TB/each giving the team 15TB total to use. You can purchase additonal data as needed on that plan. The only other provider left with unlimited data is Box.com , but due to each plans seperate data limits, you would have to setup rclone and use chunker. Or, if your installing the client on each users PC, you would have to pick a plan that has a high enough single storage limit for your biggest files. Once the app is installed on the clients PC's, it essentially works the same as DB.
cgi_ltd hello , be careful the speed with box.com is very bad, I don't know if it comes from rclone and chunker, but people are starting to complain, the upload speed is much better on dropbox
What happens if someone who has more than 35 TB/license brings the usage to under that limit. For e.g. if someone has 500 TB of data with 3 users but they delete 400 TB of that. Now there is only 100 TB left which is under the 35x3 = 105TB of limit. Even though the account is provisioned for 500TB will they be able to keep 100TB for 5 years at the current price?
Hi,
Today I requested a refund from dropbox.
I have decided to go back to google workspace. Where I have been upgraded to 15TB pool/user. and upgrade 5TB pool/user after 90 days.
I finished the NAS storage system, and used google workspace.I don't have any reason to stay at Dropbox. Where I spend too much time coding the API to store my data, the server to run the code to transfer the data. (Over 180TB)
I stayed because I expected them to provide at least 35 TB pool/user. But that did not happen.
Goodbye everyone, I'll go first.So 15 TB it is. And forget about getting or keeping 35 TB per license (user). So now those that have hundreds of TB's with Dropbox will be forced to either pay hundreds or thousands per month or just leave.
Think about it. $90 month * 12 months is already $1080 a year. If you buy 6 18TB drives for $180 each from serverpartdeals for example, that gives you 5 drives at 18TB of space and a parity drive, so 90TB of space for the same $1080. Difference is, you don't pay this every single month like you will be doing with dropbox and you will have yourself MORE space than what they are going to be leaving everyone with.
For those with the space, find an enclosure or use an existing one and start Unraid as a VM. Get a cheap sata riser card and now you have a NAS! At least this is the route I believe I am going with within the next month or two.
I do not see myself keeping 30TB I was stopped at with Dropbox just to keep paying $90/month. Absolutely not worth it anymore.
