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		flurian on Oct 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Dropbox Space Race 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.

mayneack on Oct 15, 2012 [–]

They also take advantage of a ton of redundant data.

diego on Oct 15, 2012 | [–]

Not for me, I only back up my original content on Arq (video and pictures, mostly).

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