Dropbox cancels unlimited storage due to crypto miner abuse
Dropbox’s unlimited file storage offer is no longer available.
File sharing and synchronization service Dropbox offered unlimited storage as part of its “Advanced” tariff for business customers, but is now canceling the offer due to abuse by “crypto miners and intermediaries.” According to the company, they use “thousands of times more memory than genuine business clients,” and such “abuse is against the account policy.”
In the future, the Advanced plan will offer 15 TB of storage for use by a team with at least three active licenses (with a promise of another 5 TB of storage for each additional license). According to the company, this capacity will be enough to store about 100 million documents, 4 million photos, or 7,500 hours of HD video.
“Existing customers who use less than 35 TB of storage will be able to keep that amount, plus an additional 5 TB, for 5 years at no additional charge. Customers who use more than 35 TB will be contacted to discuss options, but they will continue to be able to use up to 1000 TB. Existing customers will also not be transitioned to the new policy until at least November 1,” Dropbox said in a statement.
The Advanced plan on Dropbox currently costs $30/month.
Earlier, Google introduced similar restrictions on the amount of storage – in May, the unlimited advantage was removed from the Workspace Enterprise plan. In 2021, the company also stopped offering unlimited free storage for Google Photos, and later tried to impose file creation restrictions on Google Drive users.
