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Dropbox removing external disk support for Mac users
In case anyone's unaware... if you're a Mac user storing your Dropbox on an external drive, you'll shortly lose that ability.
https://talk.tidbits.com/t/dropbox-drops-support-for-storing-files-...
UKD It's kind of like how it's now 2023 and they still have not rolled out Dropbox Paper 2020 to all customers, and there was almost no communication from them about it for 3 years.
All this 33 page non-sense thread could be fixed by offering Pro users Google Drive-like Plans (up to 30TB since 2021!) or incremental extensions (eg. 6TB, 9TB, 12TB etc.) to finally fit with our needs in 2023!
If Dropbox finally unlocks their rubbish 3TB (+1TB) limitation I can finally get rid of my external SSD drive, make the most of my maxed out MBP M1 (having an internal 8TB SSD) and when Apple releases a 16TB option later on I will feel better knowing that Dropbox is a non-issue, since I will simply need to update the Pro plan from 9TB to 18TB in due time, with a simple click just like Google Drive is offering.
No more external hard drive sync concern then. Easily fixed: just increase the maxed Pro plans.
And everyone can move on getting things done instead of feeding this annoying thread.
I don't need 32TB, I'm fine with 8TB for now, but Dropbox only offers 3+1 in Pro which is half of it. So that's kinda useless.
At some point I'll need 16TB to get confortable headroom but this can wait a couple years until the prices go down and Apple starts rolling them out.
I never said I needed 32TB.
I'd be happy already this year with a 8TB DB Plan, that'd be a pretty solid improvement to start with. Step by step. Then we have time to increase this treshold later on.
I see no limitation here as Google Drive offers 30TB since 2021 and the rest of the competition offers at least 10TB.
psalcal sure 🙂
By the way 3 TB plan was introduced in 2017, don't you think this is outdated? A well-regarded, agile Silicon Valley tech company not updating their product in 6 years, is this even something we've ever seen before??
As reminder, Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles about every two years, though the cost of computers is halved. Same should apply to SSD and Cloud space (more or less, sure other economics factors come to play, but we can't get stuck like this)!
Hahaha thanks for the support bro 🙂
I'm down to Dropbox fixing your disk sync issue too, even though I don't need it so much either 🙂
Good luck to all of us!
Not so simple. Those of us that need file sharing and have big teams and multiple clients, we can't expect everyone to have a 4TB internal harddrive. External drives were, are, and will always be a must to the media industry.
