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ggtello
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

No additional space on Business Advanced anymore.

Dear community, I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before ...
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Shamrock22
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

"Unlimited" in a reasonable fashion would be very doable. 

By that i mean if you really need 1 Petabyte high available hot storage, then you need obiously to put more money into it. 

Afaik hosting 1 Petabyte is half a rack nowadays. You won't get half a rack including the hardware for the price Dropbox wants here obviously.

But couple Terabytes a week is very reasonable and after couple years you also reach your Petabyte maybe but by that time the disks are cheaper. 

When i looked at used Datacenter-Disks they want around 15$ for a 6TB Disk. With Profit. So for such a big datacenter-provider we talking here maybe about 0,5$ per TB as raw costs - declining.

When you then factor in deduplication, compression and what not - this is viable imo.

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Niitr0
Experienced | Level 12
3 years ago
I don't need petabytes, I use around 60 TB per year

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