Microsoft OneDrive

[amish]

well even Apple gives just 5GB free!!

 

[Navjot Singh]

Its not about the amount of free space offered. Its about your commitment to it. Storage is cheap. For a company like MS, it shouldn't be difficult to provide 15 GB space. Reducing that just shows how much you care about your customers. MS started Onedrive with 25GB, then reduced it to 15 and now is taking down further. No other reputed company like Box, Dropbox, Sugarsync etc has done it nor will do it unless the idea is to shoot yourself in the foot. Case in point - Bitcasa. It promised Unlimited storage for $10/year. And see where it stands now. lol

I am pretty sure Apple won't wake up one day and say that your free space has been reduced from 5GB to 1GB.

 

[amish]

I know .. I was just being sarcastic! (on how Microsoft can defend the move?)

 

[dantool]

i hope google doesn't go back on photos app storage. have already uploaded 50 GB+ stuff there

 

[Sushubh]

Using the optimized free storage? Coz 50GB would otherwise require a paid plan or some offer bundled with phone or chromebook that would expire eventually.

 

[dantool]

yeah, been using optimized option only.

 

[mr_grump5]

I had 200 gigs One drive storage which expired very recently still I could access those files through web interface or third party apps,
how long do I have before M$ starts deleting the files?

 

[Sushubh]

What happens to my data if I cancel my subscription or my bonus storage expires and I’ve exceeded my 5 GB free storage limit?

If you cancel your subscription or if your free storage bonus expires, your data will continue to be accessible. You'll be able to view, share, and download files on your OneDrive, but you won't be able to upload files until you buy more storage or free up space.

Seems like they are doing it like Google. If the storage is shared with hotmail or outlook mail, mails might also stop coming because no storage is available. This is how Google does it.

 

[mr_grump5]

so I can run a free trail of 5 tb plan for a month, fill it to brim and then just cancel the subscription and have access to the content for entirety :angel:

 

[Sushubh]

hard to say. do it on a newly created test account and do not use it as the only storage for that data.