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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 ...
Our company has a hot storage pool of almost 300TB currently, we also have a cold storage pool of almost 600TB. Most of the people that we consult with have 100TB or more of storage. I have migrated all of them, including our business to either a colocation- or local-hosting type situation. Dropbox thinks very highly of their toolset and honestly it is just not worth it for us nor any of our customers. Perhaps some people find it useful and worth the investment, but not us.
Eldon McGuinness - What have you been migrating to? We have QNAP NAS/DAS systems in our offices but for such a small company its hard for us to keep up with getting everything to always sync and DB has always just been a good solution for us for a number of reasons. The ability to selectively sync to our local machines (media company here, 12k video files are really much easier to edit via DAS or our editing computer's hard drive) so we would sync the current project down, then sync it back up - and then could do the same to share between editors in different locations etc and occasionally with clients.
Still trying to decide how to respond... hoping Dropbox will do the right thing if there is enough press. It is a good fit for the same reasons - remote editing, upload sources, download remotely for work, then archive online until revisions are needed. We eventually put older projects on hard drives locally and remove from Dropbox, but file sizes and project files are much larger than they used to be. Very, very disappointing.
I will soon be evaluating local storage options. I imagine that we will ultimately find a solution that allows more control and customization than Dropbox anyway. And never suffer throttling again. We'll have some time spend managing it, but Dropbox and its arrogance is history. Hopefully the media gets into this and talks about their false advertising, bait-n-switch, unethical ... and possibly illegal behavior.- I asked Support about the changes and how I am affected .
They are unable to give clear answers. They are referring to the blog post and in the next sentence they say the exact opposite..
I asked them multiple Times to give me clear answers as i have to plan how i proceed with my Business and at some point they just ignored me and havent replied to my Mails since.
This is just riddicolous . - They are respecting the information provided on the blog. For us over 5 TB for user we're going to expire in one year of grace period because after we need to pay other users for reach our quota and/or buy storage space. Local storage is the only way for us. Only docs, PC/phone backup are feasible on the new cloud provider trend.
Well I'm trying to reply to you clintwb with detail on our setup, however, the posts are mysteriously not staying put...
It's because they're deleting posts and comments that speak about this.
Yes, the posts keep moving… and the thread is difficult to find. Why? It seems like they are moving things around or obscuring this thread…
Always funny when companies put the final nail in their own coffin themselves. Lovely.
Bye Dropbox, the pleasure's been all yours.
