link6155 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 MEGA gives 50 GB storage for free, but I am not sure I want to give my personal files to Kim Dotcom. Kim Dotcom does not manage MEGA anymore, he even said it's not even safe to use now. Apparently MEGA got a "hostile takeover by a Chinese investor" and because of this Dotcom plans to create another cloud storage service. Copy.com is a great alternative since it starts with 15GB for free. If you want more space, share Copy with a friend. When your friend signs up through the link you shared, you and them get 5 GB more. You can earn up to 25GB for free which means you can have up to 40GB without paying a dime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman86 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Hi everyone. As you may have read on the front page, Microsoft is reducing the free storage for OneDrive users to 5 GB from 15 GB. I currently have 40 GB of free storage thanks to an offer Microsoft offered a while back. Anyway, my OneDrive is about half-way full (~19 GB). What I have on it is backup of personal files: (photos & videos of me/family & relatives/girlfriend/friends, textbooks, class notes, old exams, class assignments, etc). It is very unfortunate that I am leaving OneDrive since it is so well integrate with the Windows ecosystem that I am using. That said, what free alternatives cloud storage should I look at? Or you could pay the 2 bucks a month and get 100GB. That's cheaper than one beer. DConnell 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman86 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Wah. I'm not getting stuff for free anymore and now I'm mad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depicus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Wah. I'm not getting stuff for free anymore and now I'm mad! Except it's not free, my "unlimited" Office 365 which I pay for will now be limited to 1TB - and even the free one I use it's no great shakes to lose but it's like one step forward two steps back for Microsoft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depicus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 (edited) You're able to set which folders you put on what PC. You're not required to put 1 TB worth of stuff on a new computer (especially with the whole "only 250 GB of space to store 1 TB of stuff" issue). When you're setting up OneDrive for the first time, it'll ask you what folders you want to sync. If you want to change it after the fact, right-click the OneDrive icon, select "Settings". On the Account tab, select "Choose folders". And there you go! No you cannot - not on a Mac as there is no client yet !!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaykeBird Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 OneDrive free storage capacity: 25 GB (2008) --> 15 GB (2014) --> 5 GB (2015) 15 GB of camera roll bonus is also gone. If I had to speculate, I would think that the cost of storage has gone up five folds during the last 7 years. Admittedly, I was parroting older articles talking about online storage stuff when I made the "storage is cheap" comment (stating that for storage providers like Microsoft, it isn't that expensive to maintain storage space compared to other internet services). However, the point of my writing that paragraph is to say Microsoft really doesn't have much reason to limit free storage that much. Regardless of the prices of maintaining such a service, if they're offering 1 TB + to some customers, they can certainly handle giving free customers 15 GB. And yet they don't. Which is kind of ridiculous. Everything else in that response, I still stand by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaykeBird Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 No you cannot - not on a Mac as there is no client yet !!!!!!! Well, I didn't think that 1) you were talking about OneDrive for Business for the second half of that post (I got 1 TB of space on my personal OneDrive account with my Office 365 subscription, not my Business account) nor 2) that you were using a Mac. So my apologies for misunderstanding that! Depicus 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted November 4, 2015 Member Share Posted November 4, 2015 The bulk of my 'cloud' stuff goes in to a combination of Dropbox and Google Drive, i have a O365 sub for work so computer sync stuff will stay in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 So much tantrums because MS took away part of your free toys... Seriously if you need it, PAY for it. bluesman86 and DConnell 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Except it's not free, my "unlimited" Office 365 which I pay for will now be limited to 1TB - and even the free one I use it's no great shakes to lose but it's like one step forward two steps back for Microsoft. You mean your OFfice 350 will now be limited to exactly what it said on the box you'd get ... OH NO! DConnell and MikeChipshop 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman86 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Except it's not free, my "unlimited" Office 365 which I pay for will now be limited to 1TB - and even the free one I use it's no great shakes to lose but it's like one step forward two steps back for Microsoft. How much data did you have in there? If you're able to get past 800GB I'm impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesman86 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 No you cannot - not on a Mac as there is no client yet !!!!!!! OK, that's pretty tragic. It's so strange to me that they seem to have so much trouble getting OneDrive right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depicus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 You mean your OFfice 350 will now be limited to exactly what it said on the box you'd get ... OH NO! I guess you mean Office365 and it is currently unlimited and I purchased online so sadly no box. So yes I'm sure a few people will be upset that what they pay for is being cut. Hard to tell if you were trying to be funny or misinformed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 (edited) Self hosting misses out on off site backup which (imo) is one of the most important features. fire/natural disaster/theft, all data gone forever. Depicus 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenwizard88 Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 So much tantrums because MS took away part of your free toys... Seriously if you need it, PAY for it. It's not like Windows Phone was advertised as coming with 15gb of cloud storage for photo uploads or anything like that. Depicus 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I guess you mean Office365 and it is currently unlimited and I purchased online so sadly no box. So yes I'm sure a few people will be upset that what they pay for is being cut. Hard to tell if you were trying to be funny or misinformed. The office online sites has only ever promised 1TB. the "unlimited" was an outside extra offer. but not part of the actual "this is what you're buying" contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 It's not like Windows Phone was advertised as coming with 15gb of cloud storage for photo uploads or anything like that. And for lumia owners it still might apply. But they have always covered those ads with limited time or that it may change at any time so... Photos are better stored on flickr anyway. 1TB of photos in full original size +devHead 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Just FYI all student/education licenses have OneDrive space, maybe inquire as to why they are disallowing this for the students? Maybe your account has an issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarbonKopy Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 So much tantrums because MS took away part of your free toys... Seriously if you need it, PAY for it. So If I have 1.5 TB of storage currently in my OneDrive, how exactly do you propose I go about paying for it? I don't see any way to stack the 50GB offer, so that would make it impossible 'PAY for it' with what I store today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 50GB offer. when I check what extensions I can buy that doesn't even exist I can buy 100 and 200GB packs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 besides that my one drive still lists me as Free 15GB, 10GB loyalty bonus, 100GB for groove , 1TB for Office, and I have the 15GB camera bonus (I do of course have a 1020 though it's not actively used right now) so either I'm not affected by the changes or they're not going to affect me anyway. Of course I also have 1.12 available of my 1.13TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted November 4, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted November 4, 2015 (edited) besides that my one drive still lists me as Free 15GB, 10GB loyalty bonus, 100GB for groove , 1TB for Office, and I have the 15GB camera bonus (I do of course have a 1020 though it's not actively used right now) so either I'm not affected by the changes or they're not going to affect me anyway. Of course I also have 1.12 available of my 1.13TB Current storage capacities will not be reduced for 12 months to give people a chance to redistribute their data. We are fortunate that they reneged on the offer of unlimited storage capacity before they had to mine the asteroid field and convert that mass into data storage media. Edited November 4, 2015 by zhangm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Depicus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 And for lumia owners it still might apply. But they have always covered those ads with limited time or that it may change at any time so... Photos are better stored on flickr anyway. 1TB of photos in full original size Until Flickr take that away, well if Microsoft can do it..... Of course I'm sure you were joking again because I cannot think anybody would seriously suggest that Flickr is a replacement for cloud storage unless you think we should all just screenshot our documents then ocr them when we need to edit.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashel Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 I wouldn't do anything drastic yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mockingbird Posted November 4, 2015 Author Share Posted November 4, 2015 OneDrive has always been a linchpin of Microsoft's other services. That fact that MSFT even don't offer 15 GB for free to match its nearest competitor, Google, speaks volume: that is, MSFT is now more interested in monetizing OneDrive than it is maintaining MSFT's other services. Reducing the free storage to 5 GB is a foolproof way to drive users away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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