Norwegian Dropbox rival Jottacloud is finally working on a desktop app for Linux. Jottacloud, run by Jotta Group AS, has been around since 2008, offering
This honestly seems a fair way to limit it. It doesn’t affect you if you’re just a regular person using it for occasional backups. But if you’re using it to constantly access and update data you ate incentivised to go for the more expensive plans (which imo is fair. 5tb is a lot of working data).
Plus it means the storage limit is a soft limit which allows you to clean it up in your own time.
You’re also assuming that Dropbox and co don’t do the same thing but just don’t tell you.
You’re also assuming that Dropbox and co don’t do the same thing but just don’t tell you.
I don’t assume anything, I just hate on marketing people calling things that clearly are not unlimited unlimited, even more so if these details are buried in some help database. I don’t know what Dropbox and co are doing and honestly don’t care. I essentially only use my own hard drives in combination with a storage box, which both have clear price tags and limits.
5 TB for that price seems fair though, around the same price as a storage box. Just hating the marketing here.
I mean, the storage is still unlimited though? You can keep putting data into it constantly and it’ll never say your storage is full.
And they aren’t hiding it either. They tell you up front on the plan comparison that speeds will be reduced above a certain point. All the information is there to evaluate the specs.
Thanks for the chart. I guess I’d be fine with the upload speeds up to 15 TBs, I’ll have to think about it. The slow down is pretty substantial past that mark.
You’ve got the most important parts covered then. The whole 1, 2, 3 backup plan is hard for most people without some cloud storage. I am lucky enough to have someone who lets me run a small server (mini PC) offsite to self-host backups.
I have never used Dropbox as a way to access my files live. Only as a way to auto sync between machines. Except in the mobile app, which doesn’t actually sync. I wish it did though since I too don’t want to rely on cloud services simply for access.
I just checked them out. You get unlimited storage for just 12 Euros per month? There must be a downside somewhere?
“”“Unlimited”“”, but they cap your upload after 5TB.
So yeah, essentially unlimited means 5TB apparently.
This honestly seems a fair way to limit it. It doesn’t affect you if you’re just a regular person using it for occasional backups. But if you’re using it to constantly access and update data you ate incentivised to go for the more expensive plans (which imo is fair. 5tb is a lot of working data).
Plus it means the storage limit is a soft limit which allows you to clean it up in your own time.
You’re also assuming that Dropbox and co don’t do the same thing but just don’t tell you.
I don’t assume anything, I just hate on marketing people calling things that clearly are not unlimited unlimited, even more so if these details are buried in some help database. I don’t know what Dropbox and co are doing and honestly don’t care. I essentially only use my own hard drives in combination with a storage box, which both have clear price tags and limits.
5 TB for that price seems fair though, around the same price as a storage box. Just hating the marketing here.
I mean, the storage is still unlimited though? You can keep putting data into it constantly and it’ll never say your storage is full.
And they aren’t hiding it either. They tell you up front on the plan comparison that speeds will be reduced above a certain point. All the information is there to evaluate the specs.
Thanks for the chart. I guess I’d be fine with the upload speeds up to 15 TBs, I’ll have to think about it. The slow down is pretty substantial past that mark.
You’re trusting someone else with your files.
I can just encrypt them before the upload.
It’s not just privacy but availability. Cloud outages are becoming more common.
True, but I always have local backups anyway.
You’ve got the most important parts covered then. The whole 1, 2, 3 backup plan is hard for most people without some cloud storage. I am lucky enough to have someone who lets me run a small server (mini PC) offsite to self-host backups.
I have never used Dropbox as a way to access my files live. Only as a way to auto sync between machines. Except in the mobile app, which doesn’t actually sync. I wish it did though since I too don’t want to rely on cloud services simply for access.
It’s a company so enshittification is unavoidable.
Shareholder owned companies have that flaw, but stakeholder owned companies like worker or consumer coöps don’t have that flawed misalignment.
genuinely what’s the difference?
Sounds like non profit with extra step…
“Unlimited”, until you hit a certain amount probably, but they likely only expect a small number of users to abuse this.
5TB transfer per month
Upload speeds are limited after 5TB under unlimited while it doesn’t appear to be under the other tiers.