> Last year, we rolled out a new service that changed how data is placed across Magic Pocket. The change reduced write amplification for background writes, so each write triggered fewer backend storage operations. But it also had an unintended side effect: fragmentation increased, pushing storage overhead higher. Most of that growth came from a small number of severely under-filled volumes that consumed a disproportionate share of raw capacity
Me thinking big corps with huge infrastructure bills meticulously model changes like that using the production data they have, so that exact change in all the metrics they care about is known upfront. Turned out they are like me: deploy and see what breaks.
Google recently increased storage from 2 TB to 5 TB on their $20 AI plan, while Dropbox is still stuck at 2 or 3 TB for their $12/$20 plans.
They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
I'm transitioning a lot of my more valuable stuff over from GDrive to Dropbox. It's too easy for something to take out your entire Goog acct and not be able to unlock it, for one. Secondly, their synchronisation is pretty poor and always getting snarled up. Dropbox will let you synchronize across a LAN too without having the other clients wait for it to appear on the cloud. And lastly, if you accidentally delete something off GDrive you are up shit creek. The process for undeleting something (which is a support call) is absolutely horrible. Dropbox at least will give you minimum 30 days to rewind.
It’s a shame that such fantastic engineering work is buried behind a product with so many annoyances dictated by the marketing/revenue teams.
I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.
Until then, I’m using Filen. It’s fine, I have some qualms with it but it runs on every platform including Linux, it’s affordable, and end to end encrypted.
It's just a non-intrusive little menu that lives on your system tray. No ads, nags, bloat or unwanted new "features" pushed onto you. It resembles their original software much more than it does the latest garbage to come out of that company.
The context menu shortcuts in File Explorer for Copy Link, Share, and View on Dropbox still work. Sync works. Most of the other crap is gone. It's great. It was so refreshing when it got installed. I would have left Dropbox by now without it.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 35.3 ms ] threadMe thinking big corps with huge infrastructure bills meticulously model changes like that using the production data they have, so that exact change in all the metrics they care about is known upfront. Turned out they are like me: deploy and see what breaks.
They moved from 1 TB to 2 TB in mid-2019, and I wonder if they ever plan to pass on any of the gains from the past seven years of technological advancements, or if those gains are simply being captured on their side while we keep paying the same.
I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.
Until then, I’m using Filen. It’s fine, I have some qualms with it but it runs on every platform including Linux, it’s affordable, and end to end encrypted.
They absolute do!
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/simplified-desktop-applica...
Here's a screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/7g2xRJP.png
It's just a non-intrusive little menu that lives on your system tray. No ads, nags, bloat or unwanted new "features" pushed onto you. It resembles their original software much more than it does the latest garbage to come out of that company.
The context menu shortcuts in File Explorer for Copy Link, Share, and View on Dropbox still work. Sync works. Most of the other crap is gone. It's great. It was so refreshing when it got installed. I would have left Dropbox by now without it.