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MeNotYou
New member | Level 2
2 years ago
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What is the storage of the Basic plan?

I have seen info on the storage amount for the paid plans, but I haven’t seen anything and very little in fact on what the basic free plan offers for storage if any. What exactly does the basic free...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    2 years ago
    MeNotYou wrote:
    What exactly does the basic free plane give you?

    The Basic plan starts with 2GB of space but you can earn more through referrals and other bonus programs.

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SneakyKidd
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

It is 2024 2GB is nothing, 10-20GB is more reasonable for this day and age the space between 2GB and 2TB is 1998GB. And there is no plans in between. Terrible service.

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Mark
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2 years ago
SneakyKidd wrote:

It is 2024 2GB is nothing, 10-20GB is more reasonable for this day and age the space between 2GB and 2TB is 1998GB. And there is no plans in between. Terrible service.

Ultimately if you want to use the Dropbox service (and its way way way more about the service now than storage) it needs paying for. And that is by getting people to upgrade. Its unfair to say the service is terrible as you arent getting enough of something for free. 

 

Thankfully. There are plenty of other services out there - its an open market. If you dont like here you can use others 🙂

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