A 1TB hard drive retails for $50. If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.
> If you're only considering the cost of the storage itself, disregarding the value of the service it's attached to, $99/year is expensive.
Dropbox isn't storage (cold, unconnected drive). It's universal storage with multiple endpoints of connectivity, always available. This isn't to create an argument of any sort, but just to clarify they're two different things for those who might not understand that.
You still do. Replication =! Backups. You should be taking snapshots in time of your Dropbox account (unless you're using their Packrat offering, which provides versioning).
If my hard drive breaks it doesn't delete the file from their servers. You'd need to have a hard drive break in a specific manner in which it corrupts the file and then have the corrupted file be replicated. Even then Dropbox maintains copies of all versions of your files for 30 days, so you'd have to not notice the corruption for 30 days in order to actually lose the file.
Be careful on both. The hard drive doesn't need to "break", you just need filesystem corruption. If the file is readable by the Dropbox client, away we replicate corrupted data. Also, there have been instances where Dropbox has been unable to recover lost data, 30 days or not. It's your data though, be as cautious (or not) as you feel you need to be.
