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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 the 7 days, then again (after waiting 7 days) that there is a problem which however is not written by Nowhere.
We're really worried about that because they don't give us any timelines and the fact that the problem doesn't exist on the dropbox status page and that nobody else talks about it seems a bit suspicious.
I don't like writing these posts but we are really worried don't you think? Are any of you having similar problems? do they only have it with us?
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DON'T US SYNC. They do not have an open API, and their uploads are capped at 40mbps/sec, thats 4 megabytes per second, panfully slow and would take a very long time to upload any significant amount of data.
Rclone is considered a free tool by their API. So uploading via rclone does NOT count against box.com's API per month limit. We have 6 users on the base unlimited plan, which is 5gb single file limit, and 50,000 API calls. Among our 6 users, in under a month, we have upload 200,000 files ( because of chunker ). When the admin does a "platform activity report", which will display all the API calls, it will show "rclone", and then their is a column labeled "chargeable", all rclone activity is labeled as "NO". If rclone were to use the API, we would of stopped at 50,000 files, or even before that, as rclone uploads 32 or 64 megabyte small chunks as its uploading the bigger 4.9GB chunked file. We have done lots of testing. It seems there are certain tools, WITHIN Box that use the API, like sharing files etc. But, like for me, I have been testing to "stream" linux iso's via rclone's mount, and it works and that does not count towards the API limit either. It has been discussed quite a bit on rclone's forums, but no one really understands what box defines as an API hit. We have concluded, that rclone does *NOT* use the monthly API limit. So most are covered there.
- Exactly the same for us, we will wait a little and otherwise we will migrate
Probably what we're doing too.
My Team say, that we will wait another 1-2 month. Maybe will anything changes by Dropbox and give us more than 1 TB month. Next month but we will negotiate with box.
- ok, thanks for the information. so in general, are you going to leave dropbox or wait to see how it evolves?
- On dropbox, we don't have this kind of limit with advanced? I've never paid attention
Yes. For rclone's have you "chunker", that maket Files max XY GB, but you don't see that with you and you can also upload larger files.
When you Upload a File with 80 GB, makes Rclone when chunker of max 49GB create 2 Files, and in you network drive is that 1 entire file.
- I think he meant upload speed is around 50Mo/sec 🙂
