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All company's want is information, your information to then select you for constantly receive targeted marketing, then they will allow government agencies, to access your details. 1981 is here. They all ready track us by or phones and cedit card uses, 

[Ever Ready]

I bought a five user subscription for Office 2013 earlier this year, each pc has 1 Tb of One drive storage included, suits me as I use Office a lot.

Knowing my luck that will be chopped down soon

Don't get me started on the 1TB thing, I had OneDrive Unlimited not so long ago, which this year has dropped to 1TB, just wish MS will make there mind up and stick to it rather than keep changing the rules every 5 mins.

The 1TB OneDrive Storage bundled with Office / 365 does actually represent good value especially on the Home / 5 User Licence as you say. But, and a big but, is it becomes almost unusable to use a full 1TB once you start chucking 100's of GB's backwards and forth, mainly due to the very simplistic way MS designed the OneDrive Sync Software for the PC.

If you use the PC Sync on its own you've almost got to have as much free Hard Drive space (and a good fast Internet) as you have Cloud Storage, or be really up to speed and remember what folders are sync'ing, or use the Web Access and don't sync, but once you've added a few Mobiles and want to share or bounce data around between them the PC Sync App gets really messy.

You can chose which directories and sub directories to sync, but there's no options to upload or download sync only, its all or nothing, plus you can only sync it in all in a single Folder, 1 hard drive or partition at anyone time, meaning your forever copying or moving files back and forth, otherwise you have to unlink it, sign out and re assign a new folder, then hope when you sign back in, that the sync app doesn't start uploading / deleting files. 

The thing that pee'd me off, was OneDrive's unwillingness to let you store OS Back Up or Drive Images without a lot of fuffing around, theres 3rd party apps that will help with that but there stuck with OneDrives Delveloper API which have file size restrictions etc to name a few.

If your used to using the 1TB OneDrive then fine, but as a new user, I would almost certainly recommend that you install the Sync Folder on another Partition of the Hard Drive that's got plenty of free space rather than use the default C: OS Drive, sounds crazy, but once you get past 300gb+ of usage / storage it kinda makes sense. 



 

It sure does need a bit of tweaking as you start using it in anger, good point about adding phones and pc's.

I need to remember to delete old pc's I had used with the account which have now gone WEEE   

[TheBoy]

Sorry, meant to post this a week or so ago, so thanks Zirk


As to the limits, I think it shows just how expensive it is to provide "free" services, and MS were clearly making a loss on it.

It will likely be provided on enterprise grade storage, so expect to play close to $1m for each array holding a few hundred Tb, and about 10% annually in maintenance contracts. Then all the servers that are required to create a "cloud" - most of these storage cloud providers have several datacentres around the globe to get data near to the consumer, the cost of the firewalls and networking hardware and maintenance costs, then the transit costs to their Internet provider (or direct peering, which I suspect MS would do). Then the capex on building datacenters, powering them, cooling them (generally about the same as powering them), all the admin/staff/offices to support them....


Unfortunately, the freetards of this world fail to see that the internet is incredibly expensive.