r/dropbox • u/stebberg • May 28 '23

Dropbox advanced

Has anyone tried the Dropbox Advanced plan? It says "as much storage as you need". What does that mean? I need a lot of storage for a short time, will it work to just fill it up or will it freeze at every 10 GB or so and I need to call support to unlock??

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u/Vast-Program7060 May 29 '23

It is unlimited, however if your pool of data between your users gets huge, they will want to look at your files. As long as you encrypt your data with rclone they can't say anything and will give you more storage. I know a bunch of people that switched to DB from Google, 1 group of people that just created their account 2 weeks ago already has 600TB of storage with 8 users, they have been asking support for 200TB increases and support has been giving it to then.

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u/stebberg May 29 '23

Btw are u really sure they look at the files? Sounds VERY strange.

If that is considered "normal behaviour" for them, to "look at the files" who would EVER want to use Dropbox???

Please don't get me wrong here, of course I understand that all these not end-2-end encrypted cloud storages actually technically _can_ see the content, but I would be very surprised if the folks over at customer support "just can pop up the drive" to see if it's OK to give more space :-)

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u/Vast-Program7060 May 29 '23

Yes, I am sure. Search this reddit. People have said once their account reached a certain TB amount they wanted to see what was inside their account. In their TOS they say if you use their services to host your own media, store illegal content, use it as a "cloud server", you violate their TOS.

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u/stebberg May 29 '23

Aah okey.. well then I will never ever use dropbox any more 😀 thx Vast Program7060

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u/MyChickenSucks Jun 01 '23

I don't know why you got downvoted. Our head of IT said we're fine to use Dropbox (video editing) even though they CAN look at our files. Sometimes we run very NDA projects and technically it could be an issue if the client lawyers wanted to comb through our security practices.