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Allow a personal account to have more than 3 TB, or more than 4 TB with the add on
Hello,
I'm a graphic designer with over 15 years of workload. This obviously equates to extreme files sizes. I was disappointed to learn Dropbox don't offer a package for single users over 3TB....
Thanks. Appreciate the try. My "backup" has about 312,000 or so, and appears to be working. I am tempted to keep adding files and keep trying until it fails. But I believe you are correct, this is a soft limit that is probably triggered by multiple items. Appreciate the update.
Iâve seen accounts with more than 300k files (some at 550k files) that manage to sync, so I wouldnât worry too much about that. The irony here is that for the past years five years Dropbox has clearly signaled a shift of focus to business customers, but a workload of more than 300k files is one to easy imagine for a business. So one would imagine Dropbox should be business-scale-ready to handle a big number of files and not break a sweat at 300k files.
Based on their past statements and earnings call transcripts, Dropbox is not giving individual users the ability to add more storage because they believe doing so would cannibalize their business offering. Since their focus appears to be on providing more business features to sell more business seats (just look at how they are pushing Dash to business first and self-serve users second), it is unlikely they will improve their individual offerings anytime soon.
I just hope I am wrong about this and that Dropbox indeed has a winning strategy that would be later revealed to us, one that doesnât involve alienating individual customers that fueled their product-led growth engine.
Hope this helps,
Andrew (DBoxTips)
P.S. I am a volunteer on the Dropbox forums, freely and happily sharing know-how with other users, not affiliated with Dropbox in any way.
Thanks Andrew. I hope you are wrong too but given the lack of support to consumer, I think your right.
Always sad when a company forget their original and loyal users. Business and consumer are very different offerings, and then could easily do both.
For me, I have zero use as a contractor for multiple user business accounts, so I get left behind. And their price is getting ridiculous anyway.
Thanks for the info.
cheers