Dropbox is running another promotion where anyone with an .edu email address can get 3, 8, 15 or 25GB if they sign up for the Campus Cup. The amount of free storage you get is dependant upon how many people from your school/university have signed up and completed the various 'challenges' associated with the promotion.
Enjoy!
Both referrer and referee will receive 500MB bonus space (up to a limit of 16GB)
Have 123 GB courtesy of MS. It'll last awhile.
yep. especilly now it is unlimited if you pay for office 365, and with office 365 university being $99 for 4 years it's a great deal (thats if you don't get it free through your uni like quite a few do now)
Looks to be 1TB rather than unlimited
when you hit the 1tb limit they will add more.
se here https://blogs.office.com/2014/10/27/onedrive-now-unlimited-s…
Every now and then I wish I had worked out bitcoin.
just to confirm - so this is a one-off $9.99 that give me "lifetime" access to office and onedrive (1TB)?
Also cant we buy from MS directly? I'm not sure if I can trust your link (no offence) :)
@homersyd:
MS never sold something like that. You can only buy from some people and it's for a limited time. Many people from that forum were bought and confirmed.
@homersyd: Yeah I'm also a bit dubious about that link, tempting but still unsure whether authentic?
365 Pro is free for some universities' students. Check if your uni is participating.
what happens with the 25GB of files after the 2 years?
they'll stay there and your account will be over limit, and you can't add or synchronise any file unless you remove those over limit files.
Onedrive for business is definitely NOT better! Its built on bloated slow sharepoint. Restoring large amount of data is really slow and hogs pc resources.
But I find none of the software is as technically smart… so I'm left using several providers - Depending on the importance/task.
Quantity over quality. Dropbox is by far the best, fastest most reliable.
Most unis have Cloudstor storage anyway which is probably better. (100gb and it's fast)
https://cloudstor.aarnet.edu.au/
Thanks, first time I've heard of this.
Never heard of it. Problem with random cloud storage is that they won't be as polished as Drive or Dropbox, and won't be integrated elsewhere (such as smartphones).
Cloudstor is provided by Australia research and education network (AARNet) free for universities since 2011. Cloudstor uses an open platform named owncloud. You can install owncloud client in any of the popular systems, both desktop and smartphones. And the speed for uploading and downloading is lightning fast inside campus, up to 10~20Mb/s for large files according to my test at UQ. However, the overall performance of owncloud is still not as instant and reliable as dropbox. Dropbox has been deeply integrated into the OS which makes it the best.
It does in fact have smartphone apps, a desktop app, and a web client.
First time heard about it, run by AARNET (which runs internet facility to Aussie uni's and CSIRO). Thanks Sage, gonna give it a try but for strictly academic purpose.
office 365 comes with 1tb of storages
I found that after 45GB it become crap. Syncing is fine but restore took 5 and a half weeks on adsl2+
Stupid Office365, restricting you to ADSL2+. Really dumb of them.
50GB from torrent took less than a week, adsl2 is not the bottleneck. My PC is unusable - just keep freezing - while syncing large amount of data from OneDrive and i have decent 16gb ram, i7, and ssd.
@pig:
Yeah I've been trialing OneDrive ($99/4year uni offer). Seeded 250gb from very fast work connection and it still took AGES. Ongoing data syncing from ADSL2 at home doesn't seem to be as good as Dropbox. Still not sure whether to stick with it or pay more for another provider.
I have unlimited cloud storage as a student from Google Drive :)
How??
It's part of Google for Education. If you're school or university uses this service, you get unlimited Google Drive! http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/announcing…
How do we tell? UTS any one?
@watwatwat: I'm a student at UTS, and UTS is not a part of the Google education package. Instead we use the M$ education suite. I still have my previous uni email which is google edu, but it'll expire soon :(
yup, I also got unlimited storage as a student, but I not dare to upload all of my files to Cloud, I am not sure if someone in the IT department can actually read the files. So I used my personal account to store photos and movies
Ah that is the Question. Privacy?, Lost Data ? and should there be both parallel storage with another provider and hard and soft copy off line?.
The other question - who owns the data ? and who has axcess if you are dead or not dead enough that some one else is manageing your affairs?
Usually with time dependent storage, after it expires the data will still be available. You won't be able to upload anything more until you delete enough data to bring you back down under your quota.
And they will constantly 'remind' you that you are using more space than you have.
According to the terms and conditions your dropbox space will just reduce back to what it was before you signed up for Campus Cup…however, if you're over the limit once the deal expires, they won't delete anything from your dropbox, rather they just won't let you add anything new until you drop below the limit again
Yep, can confirm this, I had the bonus data when they ran the same thing some years ago, they took the bonus data once it's done (with a lot of warnings beforehand).
Hurry up UTS people and register! :)
Ask the student centre to register everyone automatically. Quicker and more efficient.
Come on UWS peeps! Oops, I mean WSU…
and that logo… geez. Talk about a let down UWS… I mean WSU.
I have 2 edu.au emails
I have 3 .edu emails from the same Uni.
While I agree with you all that Microsoft and Google both offer considerably more space in their respective services, this Dropbox deal requires no payment at all (unlike an Office 365 subscription) and your account is still a personal account (unlike all the university storage plans that no longer exist once you graduate)
That's true. But this is also just for 2 years, not like it's permanent. My old university email still works after 4 years -_-
They changed your status to 'never graduated' becasue you cheated in the final exam 4 years ago ?
Transferred unis. Maybe that?
Actually, some unis let you keep your student email forever, like university of Canberra. I don't think it's a super common practice, but it's a nice gesture :)
Current Onedrive offer gives 30gb of storage, which is already more than Dropbox can offer.
May be someone is doing a Udemy course: 'how to get free unlimited cloud storage' for USD$10 + Course materials will be updated as new information are discovered.
Nice thanks OP!
dropbox is fast becoming a company unable to catch up with the competitors. the cost storage has plummeted immensely.
That's the opinion in this article also
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/9372563/dropbox-really-is-…
yep, that's what i read today. fellow verge reader? hi5
Works for my DET email (of course it does; contains '.edu').
Me too
dropbox is not that private, i would suggest encrypting your data before its shared with dropbox
I moved away from Dropbox 2 years ago to Microsoft OneDrive, the cost of storage is much more affordable especially when it is complimentary with Office 365.
It's no longer about the amount of storage but also the value added features.
As above comments have mentioned universities are now providing their own cloud storage alternatives such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and OwnCloud. Alternatively if you don't want to use an EDU email, even the standard OneDrive without Office 365 subscription offers more storage.
30GB Free Microsoft OneDrive Storage Space: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/205518
Great. Anyone know how to get a free or low-cost .edu address though? Not currently a student but maybe there are online or short courses available that are not too expensive. I wouldn't mind some more education and some discounts while I'm at it.
I get paid just shy of 100K inc. super to have my .edu address.
Sweet deal. brb becoming professor
Thanks I'll check out UTAS
I only use dropbox because of carousel, but now google photos does unlimited storage (for reduced quality) I have switched to that. Although I'd love a free photo backup at full res like dropbox but with a lot more storage. Any suggestions?
Save in Google Drive like any normal file, not unlimited though.
Google Photos full-quality storage option uses your Google quota just the same as storing it as a file in Drive.
Google Drive 100GB is only 2$ per month, seriously considering getting it.
I got something like 40gb from an old HTC device 3 years ago. I LOVED IT. Then my time ran out and I was given no options. I couldn't pay for the 40gb; only 1TB for $12 a month.
I love you dropbox but it can never work.
Unless you literally make it work.
i did not get anything
To all the people saying Drive, Onedrive or Owncloud is better priced, that may be so, but Dropbox still has the best syncing, with the least problems (I have tried all of the above options)
It's true, even Google Drive client has syncing problems.
Just to make a correction in case someone gets confused OwnCloud is free server/client software you can host yourself with somehow technical knowledge.
Never had an issue with dropbox.. love it. Currently have 22.5GB and using 15% of it…
Giving away positive vote to mark 100
Uploading 25gigbit content takes longer than 2years here in Australia, so nope thanks
considering 1MB upload speed which is fair, it take 69 hours or 3 days to upload 25GIGS. My dropbox account capacity is 50GB and is almost full after 4 months.
1MBs or 1Mbs?
One is 8-10x faster than the other. Unfortunately 1Mbs is reasonably common not the faster one you mentioned.
Approximately 80GB of family photos took a month to upload.
That was on a standard ADSL2+ connection, roughly on an upload speed < 1Mbps (standard upload speed regardless of your download speed usually). I set upload times during hours when no one was home or awake so it wasn't a 24/7 upload.
I hope that gives some an idea of the timeframe they can expect.
Onedrive has many issues when using on mac os, but it has been improved recently. In terms of synchronization, Dropbox is still the best. I would take advantage by using both of them. Personally I use onedrive to sync my large DSLR RAW files between different computers so I could do photo editing everywhere. My dropbox is mainly for all different kinds of documents. It has also been linked with many softwares. For security reason, make sure you open the two-step verification in all your accounts ! (onedrive, dropbox, gmail, icloud etc…) so that even someone know your password they could not login.
I have a dropbox account already but not on my .edu email - how can I get this added to my existing dropbox account?
login your account in dropbox site first and then go to www.dropbox.com/campuscup to add your edu mail address. You will then receive a confirmation email to link your edu mail address to your account.
Thanks @maxdba, worked a treat.
Where are all the USQ users? We're only 150/750 (600 points, so 24 users left?) of the way to 3GB!
Dropbox used to be generous cloud storage service 3 years ago but now their free quota is meh, M$ onedrive is now heaps better with much more generous quota and cross platform support has now catched up.