Allow a personal account to have more than 3 TB

Carey D. after months (for me) of reading posts all asking the same questions, finally - this answer is extremely astute, thank you. the company's bids at various kinds of bugged/privacy compromised features over expanding the core service over the past few years become even clearer in this light. it's probably also true that expanding the core service and infrastructure are longer term, unsexy enterprises that don't boost stock price or help managers get promoted, either.

Carey D. 
Cit. "that's code for it's not growing anymore, and this is a growth-fueled enterprise"

Your reasoning explains very well what Dropbox's policy is and what its initial mission was. Thank you!
However, if my turnover is stagnant, completely stopped, and I have thousands of loyal people at my door with money in their hands, ready to pay me for a service that probably requires only a minimal investment or innovation from me... beh... I would ask myself a few questions...

shinbeth You bring up that point a lot but I'm sorry it's not a strong one. Dropbox was never designed as a "backup my computer" service. So your use case is fringe. Dropbox was designed as a collaborative cloud storage and sharing platform. 

We are all on this thread because we want larger storage plans from Dropbox. It is quite obvious, after all these years, that Dropbox cannot profitably or affordably offer large bulk storage plans at a price most of us would be willing to pay and still make money at it. If so, they'd have done it. Probably because they've done their homework and found that high storage users tend to also drive lots of bandwidth (transfers) consumption. Parking data is cheap, moving it across bandwidth is a much larger expense and drives higher compute cost as well.  They make the most money on inactive accounts and that subsidizes the rest of us. 

If you follow the news, Dropbox just laid off 528 staffers, or 20% of it's workforce. CEO Drew Houston has stated that their core business has matured. (that's code for it's not growing anymore, and this is a growth-fueled enterprise). With stagnant growth, they are looking to pivot the business model and find growth elsewhere. The core product will continue to exist, but don't expect it to improve much and I would also expect costs to rise. 

Nowadays, I only buy Mac computers with a minimum of 8TB storage. Do I need to leave Dropbox?

Surprisingly, Dropbox’s Pro/Freelance plan caps storage at just 3TB, with an option for an additional 1TB—far from sufficient for freelancers like me managing video editing, music production, and machine learning projects solo. The Advanced plan, which offers more storage, requires a minimum of three users, which isn’t suitable for a solo professional.

It’s hard to understand why a leading cloud storage company, based in San Francisco, wouldn’t offer more competitive storage options. In 2025, who can manage on such limited storage?

This seems out of step with today’s demands.

Wow. 53,000 views (yes, 53 T-H-O-U-S-A-N-D) and yet Dropbox still wants to turn a blind ear and is "investigating". 

Do you guys have a fetish for turning away business or what? 

How do I attend a stock member meeting to show your owners you are actively destroying your business opportunities?

I have to agree with everyone else’s comments. Your service is great just please allow a personal users limit to go up to 10tb. We all are here with money in hand to give you !

Been looking at my options in the short term and for futureproofing and after reading through these comments I’m honestly surprised something like this hasn’t been offered yet.

Like so many here, paying at least 3× the price with the associated hassle of dealing with three “users” is not remotely close to a viable option for a solo user.

Please offer an option to allow users to buy additional storage in reasonable tiers and prices – don’t force people to pay enterprise prices for lots of enterprise features that won’t be used.

Sad, Im a solo videographer. Strugging with holding 4tb of storage. I dont have a team, theres no need for me to spend close to x3 the price to add some storage relief. Your package scale doesnt help solo business owners. Ill be getting a nas system.  

Anyone struggling with this you can buy a nas system with good ram and a solid eithernet upgrade port and run your own dropbox. 

I'm about 6 months from having to migrate away from Dropbox due to the space limitation.  It's baffling to me that they haven't created an upgrade path for solo freelancers with higher space usage.