iCloud storage prices reduced

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[Rolando]

I wish they would expand iTunes Match to 50k songs!

[graylocks]

the link took me to scarf guy...

[onthedownlow]

(wish they would had bumped up the free to 8GB-10GB)

5 gigabytes -- free
20 gigabytes -- 99 cents per month
200 gigabytes -- $3.99 per month
500 gigabytes -- $9.99 per month
1 terabyte -- $19.99 per month

[silvarios]

graylocks wrote:
the link took me to scarf guy...

Apparently all roads lead to scarf guy. It's like an Outer Limits episode.

[jdc]

Rolando wrote:
I wish they would expand iTunes Match to 50k songs!

I wish I had the 4200 days -- about 11 years straight if you never eat, sleep or pee and listen 24/7/365 -- of free time in my life that it would take to listen to those 25,000 different songs... let alone 50,000.

I wish could understand what compels people to keep this sort of library on an individual level, akin to having hundreds of movies on tap...

[RAMd®d]

I wish could understand what compels people to keep this sort of library on an individual level, akin to having hundreds of movies on tap...

Variety.

And the freshness it can bring.


1 terabyte -- $19.99 per month

I know nothing of online storage prices.

Is $20/T a good price? It seems expensive. But that's my "The Watch should be $149 not $349" mode, using no context and having limited perspective.

And it probably doesn't help my perspective that terrestrial storage is so cheap, what with 4,6, and 8T drives available at consumer pricing.

[WHiiP]

RAMd®d wrote:

1 terabyte -- $19.99 per month

Since it is $20/mo, each and every month ad infinitum, I will pass. As you said, local storage is more fiscally responsible.

If I traveled, I would consider the cloud. I don't travel for business anymore . . . retired! And loving' it.

[sekker]

$20/TB is a good price; google is more:

https://developers.google.com/storage/pricing

($0.026/GB/month)

[DRR]

RAMd®d wrote:

Is $20/T a good price? It seems expensive. But that's my "The Watch should be $149 not $349" mode, using no context and having limited perspective.

It's actually twice as expensive as Dropbox and Google Drive, which I would call the two main competitors. However for some context, Dropbox only reduced prices/upped storage a couple weeks ago, most likely as a pre-emptive strike against the iCloud Drive launch.

Having said that - deciding on an online cloud storage solution encompasses much more than simple price per gigabyte. They each have their own relative strengths and weaknesses and the question is really which works best for your situation and your workflow.

This is in large part because past a certain point, storage is just storage. The differentiator between these 3 main products is, (in my eyes), the integration with other elements and applications. As an example, if you use gmail and google docs, Google Drive offers a much better level of integration with these services than iCloud or Dropbox. Similarly, if you're heavily invested in the apple ecosystem, iCloud Drive has benefits beyond simple storage. Dropbox is pervasive these days, they're practically the "standard" for cloud storage so any applications in the future, will likely have integrated dropbox support.

Google Drive is actually $9.99/month per TB
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en

As is Dropbox (Pro):
https://www.dropbox.com/plans