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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 ...
Out of curiosity, was that the "negotiated rate" for you that Dropbox said was coming?
They wanted me to sign up with 300 users to accommodate the 600TB of data I have stored already. The quote was for 300 users @ $200.00 per user, per year. Only way to get that pricing was to sign a 1 year SLA. When you break it down, it's only about $16.00 per user, but because of the storage amount, they said it was necessary to have that many users in order to accommodate the amount of storage.
Looks like Dropbox is also throttling and making it difficult for users to move files OUT of their servers, which makes all of this even more grotesque.
I advise someone at Dropbox to get their s--- together before they get their butts sued.
cgi_ltd so the $60K was a true number they quoted you? For reference for everyone else, now that Dropbox is reaching out to people, you have 600TB and that would factually cost you $60K per year.
Yup! They originally wanted $70k, I told them no way and bounced me back the $60k quote. If you have 500 - 600TB, these are the prices I have been getting quoted.
https://i.ibb.co/4JQ4ww5/Screenshot-20231018-094814-Adobe-Acrobat.jpg- That is a huge markup!
If you're an administrator and you were to price out drives, you're looking at ~5-6kUSD for that much storage. And then maybe another 400USD/year for electricity to power the drives. Then throw in maybe another 2400USD/year for a fast internet connection. You're looking at an initial investment of ~8kUSD and an ongoing expense of 2800USD/year; a far cry from Dropbox's price point.
The idea that Dropbox's "tools" are worth 50-60kUSD/year is just insane.
I imagine there is going to be a run on hdds/hbas/etc as people/companies migrate to local storage. Get ready for it everyone!
