Prices should be going down
Yes, but that’s been slowing. They’re reaching limits until the next advance in HDDs.
Flash is still much more expensive per GB.
Power costs, server costs and Datacenter space are going up.
There really should be something in the 500GB-1TB range for like $5-6 or at least just allow people to buy multiples of the lower tiers
It’s incredibly silly that you can just run out of the top iCloud storage tiers. It’s not something most people will run into probably… but it’s really weird that they won’t just sell you more. Glad there’s some higher tiers now, but I hate bucket sizes like this. I wish it was more granular and we paid per byte or something.
This is almost certainly the primary reason why they do this… It’s just a dick move. Especially since, sure, per byte the accounting gets more complicated… but there’s no reason to not let people buy storage in reasonably sized increments. Even 50gb at a time would be an improvement.
hey so what are you guys using to back up your iphones or at least the photos? i guess some of you use a mac or a NAS with some kind of software? or are we all paying clpud subscriptions?
PCloud, once in a lifetime payment. Quite happy with it and works well with RSync
Just buy it on black friday as it’s usually their lowest “on sale” price (they are always on sale it seems)
I know and I researched quite a bit before making the jump.
Basically there are couple of things which make me think they won’t just shut down:
- They’ve been around for quite a while (10 years as of now)
- They’re betting on the ever decreasing costs of storage to manage their margin
- They still try to sell you complementary products
- They don’t ever have to increase your max storage unless you pay again
- They still have monthly subscription available
All in all, I’ve felt pretty safe using them and I’ve done the cloud provider switch once so I can do it again
