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by hs86 73 days ago
Google recently increased storage from 2 TB to 5 TB on their $20 AI plan, while Dropbox is still stuck at 2 or 3 TB for their $12/$20 plans.

They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
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microtonal 73 days ago
Aside from bad pricing and us wanting to move our data to servers owned by a European company, the thing that that bothered me the most as a (former) paying customer was the constant upsell pushes. Every time I’d log in to the web interface they would show ads in the web interface (including pop up dialogs) to try to move me to another plan.

I’m already paying 20 Euro per month. Leave me alone.

Good riddance.

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qingcharles 68 days ago
I'm transitioning a lot of my more valuable stuff over from GDrive to Dropbox. It's too easy for something to take out your entire Goog acct and not be able to unlock it, for one. Secondly, their synchronisation is pretty poor and always getting snarled up. Dropbox will let you synchronize across a LAN too without having the other clients wait for it to appear on the cloud. And lastly, if you accidentally delete something off GDrive you are up shit creek. The process for undeleting something (which is a support call) is absolutely horrible. Dropbox at least will give you minimum 30 days to rewind.
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timmmmmmay 73 days ago
are these "technological advancements" in storage in the room with us right now? because I'm looking at today's price per TB and it's higher than it was in 2020
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kingleopold 73 days ago
did you calculate it with real inflation adjusted price? not the BS numbers in financial media, FED etc. Since 2020 unlimited printer, inflation is not few %.
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dcrazy 72 days ago
What authoritative number did you have in mind, oh economic sage?
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formerly_proven 72 days ago
The correct number would still be somewhat negative (deflationary), as you'd expect. BLS says -8% https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SEEE01?output_view=d...
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