[disantlor]

My dropbox scenario is I have a 2TB HD and 2TB dropbox storage with the 1year packrat service. I record and edit music on the HD and dropbox is always syncing my changes. The next day, when I'm at work, I can pull up the website and listen to the stuff I worked on the previous night. If I go into a studio I connect to dropbox and sync whatever folder(s) that contains the song(s) I'm working on. When I get home the files are there.

Once I forgot to disconnect my dropbox and someone at the studio trashed the folders and they were deleted on my home machine. I remotely disconnected their connection from the web interface and restored my folders to the previous checkpoint.

I can't imagine a simpler, more efficient mechanism for keeping things organized and backed up. I also have a separate backup service on the same drive of course, just in case.

The only annoyance with dropbox I have is there are certain scenarios where you can't play audio from the website and are forced to download it, which is annoying when sharing links.

That and I wish I could give them more money for more space.

[CamperBob2]

Moral of this story is that packrat is really important. It's more or less reckless to use Dropbox without it, because explaining the difference between a syncing service and a backup service seems to be next to impossible. In fact, IMHO they could even rename the company "PackRat."

The only annoyance with dropbox I have is there are certain scenarios where you can't play audio from the website and are forced to download it, which is annoying when sharing links.

Agreed.... and once they really get their media and file rendering act together, that multi-billion dollar valuation is going to make a lot more sense. Despite what I said earlier about renaming the company, they're not in the "storage" business, but rather the "delivery" business.

The latter category has an unbounded upside.

[jl6]

Have you tried asking to pay for more space? I would be willing to pay for a package somewhere between the 1TB pro account and the very expensive Business account.

[toomuchtodo]

Not OP, but I've asked for more space and was told the business account was my only option, so now I've hacked together a Dropbox/S3 hybrid.

[disantlor]

Yeah as toomuchtodo mentioned there is no option except business and there is a minimum of, I believe, 5 accounts, so at $15/per user/mo thats $900/yr vs the ~$200/yr I'm currently paying. Maybe worth it as each band member could have their own account, but it's a pretty big leap when I really only need 1-2 TB more.