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Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free

Posted by samzenpus on from the bigger-is-better dept.

DroidJason1 writes Microsoft revealed today that they will be offering 15GB of free OneDrive storage, up from 7GB. Office 365 users will now get 1TB of storage, up from 20GB. This announcement comes after Amazon revealed unlimited photo storage for those who buy the new Fire phone. Dropbox, a competitor to OneDrive, currently has 2GB for free but offers more space if you refer people to the service. Google Drive offers 15GB of free storage, while Amazon Cloud Drive offers 5GB.

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  1. Just remember who actually owns that data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And when you gaze long into a cloud the cloud also gazes into you.

  2. Just in! by GWBasic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just in! [Major hard drive manufacturer] is now offering [large amount of space] for [small amount of money]. This is amazing because, just [a short period of time] ago, they used to charge [small amount of money] for [almost as large of an amount of space].

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  3. MEGA by svanheulen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    With MEGA giving 50G for free with client side encryption, I don't understand why you would use any other service.

  4. Re:From 20GB to 1TB for Office 365?? by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason why companies can offer such large sizes for free is because most people will not come close. They probably looked at the statics and saw each user was using an average of 3gigs and not even using the 20gigs. However other companies are advertising more, so they just reconfigured the quota system to 1TB and they are competitive again. No major upgrade to their systems, just changing a few bits around.

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  5. 20K item limit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    But they still have a 20,000 item limit for the 1TB OneDrive for Business user so you tend to end up hitting the item limit well before the data size limit...

  6. 15GB free, 1TB $80 by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a "server" machine on my home network, with some big hard drives (inexpensive today). It is set up so on local network I can simply access the drives as though they were in my work machine, other than network latency of course. When away from home, I can use SSH and SFTP. (In fact I use SSH forwarding so I can access both the server and my regular work machine.)

    Very simple. Easy to set up. Probably more secure than Microsoft anything. And no third parties involved.

    I don't need "streaming" anything. I don't need DLNA or other kinds of streaming services. If I am away from home, I just download the file and view or play it locally. Disadvantage: that can take a while. Advantage: no blips or burps or freezes in my media, because IT'S LOCAL, not streaming.

    I can also sync folders, if I want, via BitTorrent Sync. Again, no third party involved.

    So, really: I don't need "cloud services". They offer me nothing I don't already do myself, and they add unreliability, privacy risks, and so many other things I really don't need to dick around with.

    I would also like to find an NAS that doesn't have all those fancy bells and whistles, and doesn't make me pay for them. I just want it to "look like" a local drive on my home network. That is all. I will take care of the rest.