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Re:WHAAAAT? Unlimited storage for $4.99 a month not a viable... by DanLar75 on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:47PM (#2173502)
I would say that Dropbox (being a really super company with a great product) has issues that are actually even larger than the storage cost.

Dropbox is based on Amazon S3, which means that not only do they have storage costs to a 3rd party that are so to speak 'out of their control' but they are also dealing with bandwidth and transaction costs.

I wish them all the best, however I can imagine this being quite expensive for them considering the amount of free users they have.

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Re:WHAAAAT? Unlimited storage for $4.99 a month not a viable... by limmeau on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:17AM (#2174189)
As the Dropbox clients talk to Dropbox servers instead of directly to S3, Dropbox can just transparently migrate their data to a storage facility of their own when they decide that that has become cheaper than S3.
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