Dropbox has decided to limit its unlimited storage policy due to the malicious behavior of some of its customers.
Although Dropbox is generally a fairly simple to use service for cloud storage needs, it faces serious competition from competitors such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, especially in terms of pricing.
Dropbox imposes limitations
The Dropbox Plus plan is available for $12 per month starting with 2TB of storage. This is more expensive than the Microsoft 365 Basic plan, which starts with just 100GB of storage but also includes benefits like seamless integration with Office apps. Now, Dropbox has decided to limit its unlimited storage policy due to the malicious behavior of some of its customers.
Dropbox currently offers the “Advanced” plan for businesses, which costs $30. This plan offers many features such as security monitoring, notifications, alerts, data classification and can be beneficial for business customers. However, the highlight of the plan was that it provided unlimited storage regardless of an organization’s use.
Over time, Dropbox learned that some of its customers are using this plan to mine crypto, personal use, and sell storage space to other people. This did not create a sustainable business model and violated the intended use of the plan. That’s why the company has decided to end its “as much storage as you want” policy in favor of a more restrictive approach.
The presented plan is quite adequate.
Starting today, the Dropbox Advanced Plan with three active licenses will provide access to 15TB of storage shared by the entire team. From that perspective, that’s enough space to store 7,500 hours of HD videos, or about 100 million documents. Adding each license adds an extra 5TB of storage on top of the original 15TB.
Dropbox acknowledges that this significant change may impact some businesses. It therefore gives customers some flexibility. Those using less than 35TB of storage can continue to use the storage they consumed at the time of being directly notified of the change, and an extra 5TB of storage will be given over the next five years. same conditions
Speaking of cloud storage needs, additional services will be available from September 18 and November 1 at $10/TB per month for new and existing customers, respectively.