Microsoft has previously (boneheaded)announced changes to OneDrive storage that would reduce your storage to 5gb.
They've now, sort of, reversed on this with the ability to keep your storage if you actively ask for it.
Click the link, log in and keep your free storage.
http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-allows-onedrive-users-to-ke…
Both referrer and referee will receive an extra 0.5GB of free storage (max 5GB).
I'm with you. They handled the whole thing kinda badly.
Free is free
Nope
Free + Hassle = Net cost.
Am I missing something?
Yes. You're missing that if you become reliant on a free service and it gets taken away it can become a real pain in the butt to rearrange the things you care about to use an alternate.
@syousef: I basically used it when I was at uni and was able to ditch USB drives altogether, save to OneDrive, and access my documents from anywhere (offcourse I had a usb backup but never needed it). Didn't need more han a few GB. But if you rely on it for storing large files yeah, its a good point.
ok bye
Thanks OP
Is this for real? If it is, it sucks that OneDrive had to reverse their decision, but still, better than nothing.
It sucks? For who?
Plenty of people jumped to OneDrive, precisely because it offered generous quotas compared to the competition. 15+15GB free tier, with 'unlimited' 365? Turns out they never had the capacity to offer that much storage, it was a bluff. Now, they're only partially pulling back on this bait and switch and people will have to seriously consider migrating again, with Google Drive's 'unlimited' photo upload offer still standing. It sucks. Worse, it betrays consumer trust, since they're not even going to grandfather accounts.
Well, they reported some customers storing over 50TB there. That's not cool :)
So, what is your definition of unlimited then?
Full utilisation of bandwidth
Having your cake AND eating it.
I can't imagine someone having 50TB of stuff legit unless it's a business or your not so legit. At 50TB you can store 10.000 5GB movies. Wonders …
Then you don't have much of an imagination. I went on a cruise in April and shot half a terrabyte of photos and video.
It's easy if you're storing lots of raw files, your entire media library, or using it for PC backups.
I have 50TB of pics of my cock. I took one picture and duplicated it until it reached 50TB, then I uploaded it to one drive. That way when the NSA go through my stuff they'll have to look at 25000000 pictures of my cock.
@syousef: If you can afford to take 100 cruises, I imagine you can afford a few dollars a year for online storage.
@mattydogge: You only managed to take one pic of your cock? It must move around very quickly. Next time try to sneak up on it while it is roosting in the chicken house for a better photo.
The unlimited plan was never free. People paid for it, a product that was clearly advertised as unlimited, and they used it.
Why do you think people will pay for unlimited storage if they don't have a tonne of stuff to store?
Yes because the only place I could possibly take lots of pictures is on a cruise. That was my only cruise by the way but certainly not my only half a TB. Oh and also I do spend money on storage. My own. Including off site. I don't trust my stuff to 3rd parties.
You know what would've been really cool? They advertised a storage size of under 50TB if 50TB was too much. 50TB is nowhere near unlimited, seems reasonable to me.
How is it not cool?
50TB is far from the unlimited that they advertised.
As much as I am a big MS fan this was just unfair. I do not have 50TB, I do have 1.2 TB of my own photographs and video footage. Even if I would have 50TB of video footage (not pirated movies) I would expect that this is OK, as there was nothing in their TOS which would prohibit me to do it.
Do I think that any unlimited service is bit suspicions? Yes. However I would expect a big players like MS (or Amazon) that they will play fair.
If someone got 50TB of pirated movies there is a clause in their TOS which prohibits that. OK, punish those people, cancel their account. But do not suddenly limit me, who spent money and a lot of time uploading completely legal stuff in there.
Shame on you MS!
Is this a deal or is it more suited for the forums?
Ahh the good old bait and switch.
Honestly, their Android app doesn't even share files to other apps correctly.
Thanks for sharing. May have missed it otherwise as OZ-B has become not only my bargain-of-the-day site but also keeping me up to date with stuff like this that does actually save me money in the long term i.e not having to pay for storage (whilst keeping the storage I've got from various OZ-B postings on how to increase my free storage).
Fantastic find, thanks OP!
Success!
Your account will not be affected by the upcoming storage changes.
Thanks OP. One of these days I probably should actually use my OneDrive account. :-)
EDIT - answered my own question
"We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage."
Ignore below :)
I got that message too, was hoping someone would spell out what it actually means.
This is the first i've seen of the changes (thanks OP), I was holding off uploading 2TB of music until I got connected to the NBN.
I currently have about 120 gig of files in Onedrive, and it's showing 920 gig available.
This is based on an Office 365 subscription.
So, as my "account will not be affected by the upcoming storage changes" do I keep my free 920 gig availability?
I can ask Microsoft but figured i'd try here first.
I read about these incredibly silly changes earlier and the attempt to justify changing the free limit from 30gb to 5gb because some people with unlimited quota used quite a bit of storage (duh). Great that you can at least keep your quota now, even though I don't understand why you'd have to actively opt in. But anyway, thanks OP.
It really had nothing to do with those people, Microsoft just wanted to pin the blame on someone else. Wrongly too. Advertise it as unlimited only if it is unlimited.
Well, it can never be unlimited because even if you add all the storage in the world it will still be finite. Why they'd call anything unlimited is nonsensical.
There is an infinite number of infinities.
They assumed that net usage among OneDrive users would be manageable, even though advertising 'unlimited' storage would attract the exact sort of heavy users who'd topple it. What'd they think would happen? It's like opening a buffet but without stipulating eating limits, then complaining when Augustus Gloop shows up.
When you opt in, you agreed to four terms that you previously didn't have to. One of them included making your email address visible. That's the most concerning part for me. Since I used a proper email and not a dummy one, I might get a lot of spam now.
Thanks!
Nice work thanks - Free is still free more free better than less free….
Nice link, thanks.
Thanks OP, really appreciate bringing this to my attention. Hadn't realised this was on the cards …..
How much does everyone have? It says 1.22 TB available so do I get to keep all of it?
Oh looks like some is from office 365 as above.
Wouldnt touch it even if its free…
Genius marketing! First they tell you unlimited space. People rejoice and make onedrive the benchmark for cloud storage. Then they slash the storage down to the lowest level and get big publicity. Not in a good way but you get fanboy defending the decision. Then they increase the storage to be on par with the competitor and all of of sudden this become "good deal" and the company viewed as company who listen to the cunsomer. Well, im not that gullible. Its a no deal for me.
you get fanboy defending the decision
Yeah nah that didnt happen
Go on The Verge then, or any Microsoft board. There's a minority of fanboys who were defending this terrible change because Microsoft could do no wrong.
You should check out /r/windowsphone sometime
I used to visit Neowin.net for many years, but it became quite repugnant with Microsoft Fanboys I just had to leave that place.
looks like im going back to DropBox at least they're not going to take my Bonus back
Sweet nice find well done OP
I have 217gb :) woot woot
Still waiting on the 220GB from Telstra users.
How do I get that?
I have Telstra homephone, BB, and prepaid mobile.
Sadly late in the hour to trust this team.management, grudgingly cleaning up their act;
Hopefully out there exists a tool to port the onedrive plus photos inter-cloud, onward to somewhere neutral.stable.
My choice to transfer out of future tesltrasoft yeaa. Located > https://mover.io by google search, might give that a vhirl
lol @ "future telstrasoft", no way Telstra is going to be able to buy Onedrive off Microsoft. They are simply partners.
Partnering?..What the devil are they up to.
Yes. That was posted last time on Ozbargain for the free storage for 2 years.
Not sure where all my storage allowance come from but Onedrive says I have 32.6 GB available.
Maybe 'cause I briefly used a Lumia phone earlier this year?
Was just about to do this and realized i use google drive not one drive , lol
should be in the forums…
Thanks. Saved my 130 GB.
Awesome OP! Thanks!
I've clicked on the link, do I get to keep the "Enthusiast bonus" which supposedly expires in Feb 2016?
Yeah you should be able to keep any time limited bonuses until they expire :)
cool thanks :)
Can new users still get the camera roll bonus?
I was tasked with setting up one drive in a business environment. It was absolute ass. Everything was a broken mess of 'beta' apps and convoluted management features with seemingly very rigid ideas on how the data should be accessed. To me, it is 15gb of unusable storage.
I think I'll use a provider that's proved less all over the place and caused various annoyances instead.