In a decision that may not have gone down well with many of its users, Dropbox has just announced removing your unlimited storage planone of the flagship services of the platform, due to the way in which some of its clients have been abusing it in recent times.
The plan affected by this decision is the ‘Dropbox Advanced’originally designed to meet the needs of companies without having to worry about storage space.
Dropbox —let’s remember, one of the pioneering cloud storage platforms— was renowned for its “as much space as you need” policy, but the aforementioned abuse —linked, in most cases, to illicit activities such as cryptocurrency mining and storage reselling— has forced the company to take drastic measures.
This decision came after Dropbox identified an increase in the number of users using the Advanced plan for activities that consumed massive amounts of storage. In the company’s words,
“Customers like these often consume thousands of times more storage than our genuine enterprise customers, which risks creating an unreliable experience for all of our customers.”
Changes from today
Starting today Friday, new customers who purchase a Dropbox Advanced plan with three active licenses will receive 15TB of shared storage space for the teameither. Each additional active license will add 5TB of storage up to a maximum of 1,000TB. This marks a significant change from the previous “unlimited space” policy.
However, Dropbox has stated its commitment to ensure that companies already subscribed to the Advanced plan do not experience inconvenience due to this change:
- For current customers using less than 35TB of storage per license, representing more than 99% of Advanced users, will be allowed to keep the full amount of storage they are currently using, plus receive an additional 5TB of pooled storage credit for five years, at no additional cost .
- For those using more than 35TB of storage per license, Dropbox will offer them an additional 5TB credit for one year, in addition to contacting them to establish storage needs specific to their business or organization.
The transition to this new policy will begin on November 1, and the company will notify customers at least 30 days in advance. In addition, Dropbox will offer storage add-on options for those who need additional space, with prices starting at $10 per month.
Via | Dropbox
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