Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by drinchev 3602 days ago
For 96$ Yearly you give 1TB and for 99$ yearly you can buy Dropbox with that amount of storage.

I don't get how they set such a big price for that.

1 comments

I imagine Dropbox are overselling and banking on most users not using 1 TB. Amazon S3 charges $30/mo for 1 TB of storage.
Still doesn't make sense you can find $60 1TB drives.
And then what does it cost to rent a datacenter, power the thing and the server it's in, and pay for bandwidth?

In any case I do agree their numbers look really high (they need to factor in redundancy and their own margin) and could very well turn out to be either a VC cash grab or an outright scam (malware)