Re:Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
by gwillen on Thursday June 08, 2017 @12:21PM
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In addition to the comment below about CrashPlan requiring you to use their client software, which limits abusabiliy -- I am also seeing signs of strain from CrashPlan. They have always had a policy that claimed they would delete data from machines that hadn't touched the service in a long time, but they had never implemented this in practice before; just last year they finally started sending out threatening letters to people saying they're going to delete data on short notice. (And they didn't really back down when people got angry.) This tells me the storage expense is starting to hurt them.
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Re:Amazon Drive removing unlimited storage plan
by devicenull on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:03PM
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Yep, I cancelled my CrashPlan account when they pulled that. IIRC they gave me under a week to either download the data for 5-6 machines, or lose it forever.