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Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by vidarh on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:06AM
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Suspicion of what? Suspicion of actually taking them on their word when they advertise it as "unlimited"?
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by gfodor on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:09AM
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warez
edit: why downvotes? OP asked what person would be suspicious of, the answer (right or wrong) is piracy.
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by vidarh on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:27PM
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My question was rhetorical. The problem is that their advertising is false - it is not unlimited when they put all kinds of restrictions on it. When their restrictions are unspecified it just makes matters worse, because it means I as a user has no recourse if they decide to shut down my account.
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by kyriakos on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:11AM
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I'm a photography enthusiast and have more than 10tb of photos in raw format. Why would they get suspicious?
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by itcmcgrath on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:09AM
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Drive has plans up to 30TB, so it would be disappointing if 10-20TB counted as unusual w.r.t 'unlimited' plan.
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by minimaxir on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:11AM
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30TB on Drive is not even close to $5/mo, though, and is clearly for unusual cases.
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by kamilafsar on Thursday March 26, 2015 @12:17PM
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Can anyone explain the logic behind Google Drive's pricing?
Google Drive with 30 TB storage is priced at $300 per month. But then you have Google Drive for Work with unlimited storage and is priced at $10 per user per month. Meaning that you can get 30 users with unlimited storage for the same price. Why in hell would anyone pay that?
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by Spooky23 on Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:24PM
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It's $0.01/GB, the same price as their nearline cloud storage option. On the work side, they are pooling the capacity at the business level.
In an enterprise environment that I'm familiar with that has 100k users on a shared file store solution... Something like 10% of users use less that 1GB, the 99th percentile user uses 1TB, the 90th percentile users is something like 30GB.
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by itcmcgrath on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:19AM
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Agreed, but the point still stands. 'Unlimited' does not change definition based on price point. Especially if competitors offer paid-for limits above your 'unlimited', wouldn't that literally be false advertising? (Note: I'm not saying Amazon is, just addressing the above interpretation of 'Power user'
Re:Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimit...
by Vexs on Thursday March 26, 2015 @11:02AM
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I think it's a reasonable thing to say on their part, it allows them to deal with weird cases, or errors that upload thousands of copies of the same file or something. It's just coverall-contracting.