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Re:The Great Dropbox Space Race by flurian on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:28PM (#4656735)
It is cheaper to store 100GB in Dropbox than to store your own 100GB in S3. It would cost $12.50 plus transfer costs to use S3. It costs $9.99 and no transfer costs (besides your own net access) to use Dropbox. Dropbox is storing a lot more than 100GB, so they get bulk prices.
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Re:The Great Dropbox Space Race by mayneack on Monday October 15, 2012 @03:57PM (#4656876)
They also take advantage of a ton of redundant data.
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Re:The Great Dropbox Space Race by diego on Monday October 15, 2012 @06:39PM (#4657489)
Not for me, I only back up my original content on Arq (video and pictures, mostly).
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