Plan for freelancers that upgrades storage capacity to 10TB and beyond

lukehall

On a project this month, a client with an Advanced team plan on Dropbox needed to share large project folder structures with me so that I could work in their ecosystem. For security reasons, their IT team would not let me join as a seat on their Dropbox plan. 

As a freelancer, I am a one-person team, I only need a single license. However, I sometimes need to process or be shared into large folders that may exceed 3-4TB that a single user is allowed. I think there should be a plan that allows a single user to go beyond 3-4TB without having to purchase a team plan that requires a minimum of three licenses. 

Because of the three license minimum to work in any large or professional capacity, it doesn't make sense for someone like me to use Dropbox, however if this trivial requirement was removed I would be interested in trying it out. At the moment, these limits have caused nothing but headaches between me and my client. Hoping this gets updated in the future, but until then I will just ask my client to un-share folders once I hit the 3-4TB limit, rather than pay for extra space with licenses I will never use.

Dell_Dropbox

Thanks for dropping by and sharing your idea @lukehall. This topic was touched on a few months ago, and one of our Dropbox team members laid out a strong case for the plan with 3 licenses even though you may not need them at this point 

"In regards to your request, you can actually do that by subscribing to our Dropbox Advanced Plan 15TB . You don't have to make use of the other 2 licenses for now if you are just using the whole space for yourself.

And with this plan, you are actually saving. The cost of our Solo Professional plan 3TB a year is $200. So 15TB is like purchasing 5 sets of Solo Professionals 3TB at $200 per 3TB, so the total cost of the 15TB is supposed to be $200 x 5 sets or $1,000. However, with our Advanced Plan 15TB, you only pay for $864/year , so that would be a savings of $136/year.

On top of that, you will have added benefits that are not offered in the Solo Professional Plan 3TB, and these are just few of them:

Real time Phone Support feature, 24/7 security alerts and ransomware detection where you get notified of suspected threats and take action to protect your data immediately, End-to-End Encryption, to prevent third parties from accessing your transferred data, and so much more "