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by JoshTriplett 5345 days ago
200 GB per new user, at $125/year per user, works out to $0.052/GB/month. Amazon S3, which Dropbox uses, charges $0.037/GB/month at scale. And that assumes that people use 100% of the storage they pay for, while most people don't actually run anywhere near capacity all the time. That also ignores compression and de-duplication.