Allow a personal account to have more than 3 TB, or more than 4 TB with the add on

The pricing at Dropbox has always puzzled me, it feels we get punished for actual using the space. 60$ for an additional single TB is beyond anything that's acceptable short of a scam.

I've been starting to look at alternatives to migrate everything and close my DropBox, after a decade of loyalty to the service. Sure, it's going to be a pain for a couple of days while I have to relink many of my files, but it will be worth it for the long-term gains (both financial but also in terms of time, finally avoiding having to see what old files I can delete to stay within the 3TB limit every 2 months).

randypeck as stated before, Pro and Business are different accounts. I’ve tried Business at personal and business level, it changes my file directory structure with a unecessary 3-user folder structure which messes up my organization, whereas with individual Pro account there’s no such thing.

Just provide a single individual plan with more than 4TB Dropbox thanks, just like all your competitors. I really don’t know what’s so difficult to change a line of code to allow it.

Is that $60/month for an additional 1TB maxpantani ? That is highway robbery.  I guess we all want it so badly they feel they can change a ridiculous price for a TB.

I want more space, but I do want to be charged a ludicrous price for it.  SIGH

@randypeck

Even funnier is before I found this, I contacted customer service and asked directly if there was a way to add another terabyte and they said "No"... very strange. This is what happens at big companies I guess. 

Thanks for pointing out that you can now add another TB to the Essentials plan for a total of 4TB.  I've never noticed this before -- they don't seem interested in promoting it.

I think that since it's unrealistic to wait for Dropbox to *ever* change their single-user licenses, the solution is to jump from 4TB to 9TB via their Business Plan and register two unused emails as the second two "accounts," and just use the entire 9TB in your primary account.  The cost/TB ($60/mo for 9TB) is similar to the personal plan.  Right?

If you need more you can jump to the 15TB Business Plus plan for $78/mo -- which is lower cost/TB than the personal or regular Business plan.  Again you'll just need to set up two fake users that don't use any of the storage -- just use it all yourself.

What am I missing?  Is this not a viable course of action (unless you want more than 4TB but less than 9TB)?  The cost/TB on all of these options is comparable if not identical.

@maxpantani 

I did just find you can ADD 1 TB in your subscription settings for another $60 but then you can't keep adding after that. 

maxpantani yeah mate that's very solid. 50 eur / month but at least I can sleep at night knowing my personal and pro lives are backed on the cloud at any given time 🙂

This situation of using an external hard drive really stressed me out haha

What is your current setup?

hunter111 

Tried iCloud as well. Didn't work well. Slowest option ever and only fits stuff like usual iPhone stuff (videos and pictures).

I know the disk space is appealing but don't be deceived. Just didn't work for me it's not comparable to Dropbox or Google Drive.

Trust me as of today your only option is Google Drive.

@shinbeth 

good to know on Sync.. I'm going to start testing some options.

In your particular case, have you considered the iCloud backup? You can get up to 12TB and since your backup sounds Mac centric that might be good. 

hunter111 

I can only agree with all your points... been a loyal Dropbox customer for 10 years as well 😞

I went for the split since I still need to use Dropbox + I no longer wanted to use a physical hard drive anymore as backup, since you can't trust those (plus I hate that it has a cable, I wanted to be cable free).

But yeah ideally my full 8TB Macbook pro would be synced on Dropbox with an equally big Pro plan.

As to "Sync" just a word of caution, you'd think I've tried it as well and it sucks (UI and all). The only benefit it has is the no bandwidth limits but that really all there is...