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Lisa Douglas
3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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Closed - Not for right now
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. I work solely and require more cloud space and don't want to have to upgrade to a 'per user' plan as this isn't cost effective. This option has to become available soon.
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- MajorHavoc3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Wild guess, the answer is no.
No, no one from Dropbox will comment here (anymore). I seldom see anything but automated messages.
And No, it does not look like this will be a feature anytime soon since this thread has not even been approved as a feature request.
I hope I am wrong on both account, but so far it does not look good.
- Benjamin Gordon3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
I've been asking Dropbox support, emailing, posting online for about 3 years now.
Can someone from the product team answer this and let us know if you're planning to address this or not?
- MajorHavoc3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
I find it amusing that this has so many comments (8 pages and growing) and Dropbox has listed this as āgathering supportā. Sigh. Yea, everywhere but AT Dropbox it seems. Off to up my iCloud account and start moving files. š©
Maybe that is what Dropbox hopes for. All of us complaining about more space will just leave. Iām really curious as to what the real problem is? There must be a system design or hardware limitation on the systems personal accounts live on that makes 2 or 3 TB a hard limit. Maybe they could just admit this?
- maxpantani3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Unfortunately, I believe that the blind administration of the Dropbox company completely ignores individual professionals and anyone who, even if willing to pay, does not have a huge company behind them.
I too am starting to look elsewhere, following the suggestions of users who are leaving. Of course it's a shame, because Dropbox is (was) functional... but is not receptive to customer needs: it gets lost in small issues and dozens of useless functions, losing sight of the real interests of those who work. Really a serious, serious flaw... - Benjamin Gordon3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
yep. im currently looking into alternatives.
probably going to move over to iCloud drive.
- rafajacinto3 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Randy and Major Havoc, I feel the same. I was a Dropbox hard user for more than 10 years and I've just left (I had 4TB (3tb plan + 1Tb I paid extra)). After many emails, chat conversations and this forum here I figured out they are driving the plans to business clients and leaving us (individuals, freelancers, photographers, filmmakers) who work independently with no choices.
After consulting many photographers and filmmakers I decided to move to Jottacloud, a Norwegian cloud service, cheaper and with an unlimited plan (although after 5TB it gets slower) for individuals.
Backblaze was also highly recommended to backup local drivers (you must have a physical hard-disk at your place to mirror it online). - MajorHavoc3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
Randy, I feel exactly the same way. And itās quite obvious that no one from the company is reading these comments. Or if they are, they simply do not care.
Iām constantly deleting Dropbox files to free up space, either moving them out of Dropbox on the same drive and hoping backup will have me covered, or like you, to a local NAS which is not backed up often enough because of its size.
Dropbox isā¦was a great product but I have found several alternatives for protecting files, and Dropbox will go back to a way to share a large file to someone. I may not even need a paid account when fully there.
Too bad, it used to be my number 1 recommend product. Not anymore.
- randypeck3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Like so many businesses that lose their way, they are piling on questionable new features rather than improving core functionality.
I wish they would at least explain why they donāt offer more storage at a higher cost for individual users ā there must be a reason.
if they are looking at current usage and concluding not enough people are maxing out, they are overlooking people like me who have turned to their competitors and a private NAS, carefully conserving Dropbox space for specific uses only. Iād like to have 50tb on DB for deep storage and backup.
Aside from the paltry 3tb limitation and all the features I donāt need, Dropbox is a nearly perfect product. - Tom463 years agoNew member | Level 2
I currently pay for Dropbox Professional (3TB), with an extra 1TB of storage space. I would like to have 5TB of storage, as is available to business users. But I am a sole trader, I don't need to pay for the minimum of 3 accounts ā it's just me! Please make it possible to have more storage as an individual.
Thanks,
Tom - shinbeth3 years agoExperienced | Level 13
anonymous
thank you so much! How come I almost missed that
"users can upgrade to a paid āiCloudā+ storage subscription plan to get 50GB, 200GB, 2TB, 6TB, or 12TB of storage. The bigger āiCloudā plans are set to become available on Monday, September 18"
I just subscribed to the 12TB plan. Bye Dropbox! Yeyyyy
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