Allow a personal account to have more than 3 TB

hunter111 

So here's my temporary workaround.

I'm on the Pro Dropbox 3TB (+ you can purchase the extra 1TB in Settings), that's 4TB total. Not enough for my 8TB Macbook Pro.

So since last month I went for Google Drive 5TB plan as well, on top of Dropbox. Google Drive used to lag behind but now it's much better and faster. To my great surprise, Google Drive decided to remove their file number limits - initially 400'000 files in March 2023, shortly removed in April:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/

And there's no longer such things as file size limits:

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en

So now I have no issues with size limits, I can sync my huge files on it, same as with Dropbox.

So not as fast to sync than Dropbox (due to Dropbox best-in-class by performing sync method), but still quite fast.

And all file types are supported, I've had no issues syncing 5TB.

So what I do is I've managed to put all my daily stuff (things I use the most, coding projects, music projects, plus photos and music library) on Dropbox, and larger files (like archives, app installers, video courses collections, 4k videos, huge AI/ML datasets/disk images, etc.) on Google Drive. 

The only minor thing is, if using a Macbook, when putting files on Google Drive it automatically creates .DS_store files in it. These files are nothing they're like empty, automatically created by macOS in Finder for indexing each folder and sub-folder. Just type .DS_store on Google Drive search in the end, select them all and send them to the bin. They're automatically recreated by macOS whenever you move the files back in a macOS env.

So until Dropbox fixes the 3TB size limit with Pro I'll stick to that hybrid option:

• Dropbox Pro 4TB (about 25 eur a month) + Google Drive 5TB (25 eur a month).

The only drawback for me is not being able to have EVERYTHING on a SINGLE CLOUD (particularly painful when I'm away from home on my iPhone, I have to use Dropbox and Google Drive apps separately - I know there are multi-cloud iOS apps but I don't like them, they're not as good as the native apps).

Of course if and when Dropbox fixes the size limit, I'll move everything on Dropbox Pro 10TB plan (or even more TB one day if needs be - Google Drive actually offers up to 30TB plan).

So yeah it's a good thing Google Drive keep improving their product, just one more step and can finally get rid of Dropbox if they decide to never upgrade the 3TB limit. It will be one or the other in the end, and I feel like Google will be more powerful eventually, because they are bigger with larger servers worldwide and have better and quicker development teams presently catching up.