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> I assumed that the average user will make 10 put/copy/list requests and 10 get requests daily

Did those assumptions seem ridiculously low to anyone else too? My Dropbox is constantly syncing. Every time I save a file, move a file, delete a file, on any of my connected devices, I am making a request. I would estimate that I make nearly 500-1000 requests a day.

That also suggests that the total bytes transferred is a lot more than the author estimates.

I am pretty certain that Dropbox pays more for the requests/transfers than it does for space nominally.

Another thing: Did the author neglect the "30 day versioning" (or forever-backup) feature that Dropbox has? I think each user probably consumes a lot more than the suggested few hundred megs (average), in part because of all the changes.



Since the changes/uploads of the files are just diff's of the existing files rather than full copies for each version, I can't imagine that the versioning would add too much to the author's rough estimations.


But that doesn't change the number of requests. Perhaps it lowers the total bandwidth consumed, but what about the number of requests?




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