Microsoft Dropping Unlimited onedrive and crippling free user storage

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https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/

I have been using onedrive since it went unlimited been a great way of backing up raw files and creating galleries for people but it's ending. There also dropping free storage from 30Gb to 5Gb. I'm not going to go on a rant but thought I'd flag it up for anyone considering using onedrive probably best to avoid. I'll be backing my data back down to a hard drive and cancelling my account for a refund asap.
 
yeah they're on my list don't know anyone who uses them personally so will be seeking reviews. Part of me cant be bothered moving, they might change their mind again within the year there giving to phase it out, and if I do I used to used dropbox and may just go back there as their product works well and has good versioning control which saved me a few times though they're more expensive.
 
CraigDHD said:
yeah they're on my list don't know anyone who uses them personally so will be seeking reviews. Part of me cant be bothered moving, they might change their mind again within the year there giving to phase it out, and if I do I used to used dropbox and may just go back there as their product works well and has good versioning control which saved me a few times though they're more expensive.
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I work as IT Services Manager and we support a number of companies (big and small) and smaller companies using hubic without any issues at all. They based in France. They one of the biggest hosting coampanies in the world tbh. give a try for free account and you will see ;)
 
If you buy Microsoft Office 2016 for €69 then you get 1TB of storage free with it. Not a bad deal when you compare it to others especially when you get the full office suite with it as well!!
 
interesting.
I have personal Onedrive and used it since forever. 99p/m=100gb
Did I miss out on the unlimited deal?
 
Unlimited was for office 365 subscribers and started about a year ago. The blog says they're doing away with the 100gb teir as well though and it's going to be 1.99 for 50gb
 
I don't understand why they are throwing their toys out of the pram. Surely most people would interpret their "unlimited" data storage offer to mean they can store unlimited amounts of data?
 
I bet no one is using even a tenth of their maximum allowance.

Edit: OneDrive Unlimited.
 
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Amazon offer an unlimited back up assertive for about $60 a year if you need a lot of storage. Pretty disappointed onedrive are even cutting out the 15gb camera roll bonus.
 
You cant realy grumble at free storage becoming not free, after all it costs money to provide.

Hubic is an enterprise class storage level and I have used that for a few years, stop being so stingy people
 
Would be nice if Hubic did something between 100GB & 10TB
 
ianp5a said:
I bet no one is using even a tenth of their maximum allowance.

Edit: OneDrive Unlimited.
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Hmm well I bet several are abusing the system, but yes statistically it would be difficult to use a tenth of truly unlimited I suppose ;)
 
stryvya said:
Get Libre Office 5 for free:- https://www.libreoffice.org/

And a 1tB external HDD for £39.99 and save your self at least 35.00 :- http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FZU9JYI/ref=twister_B00ZWFESH4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

and kiss the Cloud goodbye, result.
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Until your external HDD goes tits up and the result is you lose a shedload of perhaps irreplaceable data or photos.

Remember no backup is a backup if it's not also backed up and cloud storage is far less likely to be lost if a HDD fails, or a burglar steals the lot or your house burns down or even (as happened to me once!) gets struck by lightning!
 
OK heres a life tip guys.. There is no such thing as "unlimited" .
 
Now Tony you will be expecting me to give up my free lunches next ;)
 
I had a mate once who stayed at a hotel where they advertised an all-you-can-eat all-day breakfast.

He's still there.
 
If someone claims their service is unlimited in order to lure more customers in, then they can't whinge and blame customers who use what they want. If they mean a 1TB limit, they should say 1TB limit, rather than bullsh!t people for quick marketing gains. If there is no unlimited, then they should not lie to customers.
 
Its not heavily advertised but Amazon prime customers have unlimited photo storage as part of their £79pa charge. This is excellent as it is one of the rare sites that also allow RAW photo storage and as a D800 user I get through quite a lot of RAW space :) I have just under 4TB stored online now for just over £6pm plus next day delivery and and prime tv as a bonus.
 
ianp5a said:
If someone claims their service is unlimited in order to lure more customers in, then they can't whinge and blame customers who use what they want. If they mean a 1TB limit, they should say 1TB limit, rather than bullsh!t people for quick marketing gains. If there is no unlimited, then they should not lie to customers.
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I'm trying to contain my rants as I have at least a year but this is the issue that irks me. Even more so the limit was 1tb, they then increased to unlimited with no fair use policy. They also didn't make you unlimited they gave you 10tb of storage and when you reached your limit you had to email to request additional space which was released in 10tb chunks. If people are storing 75tb and there not happy they shouldn't have advertised unlimited or shouldn't have kept releasing additional storage to them. I think at the very least they should be grandfathering people in to the level of storage they are currently at but ripping it away screams bad choice in a time when they're pushing onedrive and the cloud as the big thing in integrating windows devices. they have quite strict terms on what can be uploaded so if it was really a problem they could have found a reason to stop giving users additional space.

I get the reasoning they cripple the free tier and offer office 365 free so hope everyone will move to that and keep paying once they see how good it is after a year. In the mean time to accommodate all the extra storage the new free 365 users need they need to gut out the storage being used by the current unlimited users. It's a dangerous strategy imo opinion because if anything the free users seem more outraged than the paid and it's really put me off trusting them going forward. No guarantees after a year when the dust settles they'll have more 365 subscribers than they started with.

If adobe would just re-write a nice clean photoshop and lightroom for linux it would give folks a lot more choices.
 
macko said:
Its not heavily advertised but Amazon prime customers have unlimited photo storage as part of their £79pa charge. This is excellent as it is one of the rare sites that also allow RAW photo storage and as a D800 user I get through quite a lot of RAW space :) I have just under 4TB stored online now for just over £6pm plus next day delivery and and prime tv as a bonus.
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I didn't realise prime let you upload raw files, that could maybe work, is it still just 5GB of non phot data though? i see in the US they offer cloud drive for unlimted storage for anything at $59.99 per year. Think hubic may be best choice but will probably stay with onedrive for now in spite of myself until they take away my current 10tb limit.
 
We had a discussion in another thread to work out how we could test the Amazon 'unlimited' claim.
Video is not included in the Prime unlimited. It is covered in the Prime 5GB files allowance.
 
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If you want space for photos, SmugMug is totally unlimited, even on their most basic plan which is currently US$3.34 per month.
https://www.smugmug.com/features/unlimited-photo-storage

SmugMug have form when it comes to confirming that "unlimited" means "unlimited". Back in 2005, a customer asked them whether he could upload over 2 TB of photos: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=24847

For those who don't have time to read the whole thread, here are the highlights. The chap had 2,485 Gigabytes of "high-quality" (or what passed for high quality at the time!!) JPEGs. He estimated they were about 6.2MB each on average so that meant something like 400,000 pictures. The CEO of SmugMug joined the discussion and said:
So we've always said "unlimited storage" and we mean what we say. We're happy to take your photos and host them, but we need a little time to prepare. Just so you know, this is something like a $20,000 first-year commitment for us in terms of disk space, power, cooling, and physical space. You'll basically have two complete RAID arrays to yourself in our datacenter. Of course, you'll only pay your $30, $50, or $100 per year, depending on your account level. Again, we're happy to do it - but I want to be up front here and let you know that we need to order some equipment and get it installed to accept your photos. We're not geared for accepting 2.5TB overnight. We'll also be buying extra image processing machines just for your batch of photos. Luckily, once yours are done, everyone else at smugmug will get to benefit from them, so I don't consider that a cost to host you. Does that sound fair? Can we ask you to hold off while we order and install the equipment and power required?
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6 weeks later, the CEO gave an update:
We're getting close. The new image processing servers are in place ($20K worth), and the new storage ($25K worth) was being installed last night. We also upgraded our bandwidth a couple of huge notches (can you says Gigabit Ethernet?) last night. Once I hear from Wireless how that went, we may be ready to go. I'd guess maybe a week or two more, tops.
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Sadly the discussion petered out. I don't think the OP actually went through with it. But SmugMug were certainly up for it - they bought the equipment, and their (other) customers used it. In 2009, the CEO dropped in to the thread to say:
When SmugMug says Unlimited, we mean it.
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Good on them. Great publicity for SmugMug. Unlike the companies that lied to their customers.

Unlimited doesn't mean infinite. It just means "more than you've got".
 
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Doesn't look like Smugmug accepts RAW files ... is that correct?
 
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