More OneDrive Storage for Office 365 Subscribers

If you're an Office 365 subscriber, Microsoft has just increased the amount of OneDrive storage available to you to unlimited. If OneDrive didn't meet your needs for other reasons, then this is nothing to get excited about, except maybe the fact that other cloud storage providers might sweeten the pot on their own as well following this announcement.

Honestly, I have no idea what someone would do with that much storage (as if 1 TB wasn't already a ton of storage). Well, I guess anyone could put their entire media libraries on the cloud now.

In my opinions, this can make Office 365 University a pretty sweet deal for students, given that it's 80$ for a 4 years subscription.

Anyways, here's the source for the info: Microsoft ditches OneDrive storage limits entirely for Office 365 users | Ars Technica

 

Wow.

For non students, an Office 365 Home subscription (5 Office desktop and 5 mobile licenses) is only $63 and change from Amazon.

 

Someone will always find a way to abuse something like this. The most recent example that comes to mind is BitCasa ending their unlimited tier of storage due to a few (ab)users.

That said, this is pretty cool, and I might consider buying (through amazon) so I can stop RDP'ing just to open an excel or word doc. Thanks!


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

New nest for sharing unlimited pirated material? It was Google doc but that wasn't a real cloud drive.

 

I would read the fine print and make sure they don't restrict certain files like exe's and iso's. Microsoft is just opening themselves up to government intervention though and likely be asked to police the content on the storage. I haven't used Microsoft's storage service much but last I knew it wasn't as flexible as something like Dropbox, granted Dropbox is a measly couple GB (I'm up to 5.5 GB).

 

OneDrive's 1 TB storage would have been a great idea if they didn't sneak in to you data. I want to backup my entire library of files without having to worry about encrypting/decrypting and be sure it's safe. This is why I never opted for this

Take for example my music collection, how would Microsoft know if I really bought these MP3s or they were backed up from an original CD?!

 

They don't care. As long as you don't share these MP3s with the world at large it's none of their business. Sharing with a few people still constitutes fair use, and is fine.

 

So wait, storing music is fine? That would definitely make it easier managing music between my two devices.

 

Yes, it's perfectly fine. All of the cloud storage services, including OneDrive, will do this for you no problem.

 

That's certainly nice to hear. All of the sudden those 40GBs I have aren't that useless anymore.

 

So now I can encrypt and backup my entire home server, all 6 TB worth and no restrictions? Sounds too good to be true.

 

Except that item Amazon does not sell outside US.
However can someone confirm that the key card / code is not region locked in any way? I know it shouldn't be but... murphy's law.

I do have a colleague living in NY at the moment and all I need is the code

 

I use Tresorit FTW, All data encrypted on the fly when uploaded

Guys lemme ask you this, I know that Office 360 let's you use it on 5 devices. Let's say I upload all my data on my computer. Other users who use my key cannot access that data as well right it's tied to their Microsoft ID/Account

 

It sounds like there is at least one restriction - no single files over 10GB.

 

So the theoretical limit then is something like 10 petabytes?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

Simple enough to break up the backup into < 10GB chunks

 

Humor me for a second: how would you go about that? Backup to one large file and then .iso that into chunks? Or am I missing a much more obvious easier way?

 

Most any backup program allows the option to chop up the backup into any size you want.