Amazon Web Services Drops Prices Again
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
@scottalanmiller Your talking about OneDrive for Business. onedrive.com is truly unlimited if you have office365.
How does one get that? I have Office 365 and OneDrive but it is anything but unlimited.
Microsoft has said in the past that they will be deploying unlimited ODfB in the coming months. I think there was a thread on it here not too long ago.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
You have the business edition. The version he is talking about is the consumer edition.
I have both. Neither is unlimited.
It's supposed to be, with something like 10GB single-file-size limits.
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https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/
The problem is your using the business product. In this case the consumer product is better.
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Yay for Education O365!
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I have both. Neither is unlimited.
It's supposed to be, with something like 10GB single-file-size limits.
Well 10GB file size limits makes it useless right there. But beyond that, that's the service that isn't unlimited. ODfB is 1TB limit. OneDrive is more like 1-4TB depending on file sizes. But it's not available to everyone, just some people, they were rolling it out slowly.
Can anyone find a reference to OneDrive truly being unlimited? What service was MS calling unlimited but was only a few TB it that wasn't it? There was thread after thread about how unlimited was a BS marketing term and that the limits were very severe.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/
The problem is your using the business product. In this case the consumer product is better.
We've already covered that I'm using both OneDrives.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/
The problem is your using the business product. In this case the consumer product is better.
That's the limited service I'm talking about and the one we've discussed in other threads. Anything but unlimited...
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/
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I agree that MS has stated that they are rolling out Unlimited consumer OneDrive slowly over time (though I wouldn't expect it to be more than a year to get everyone there).
I do also recall there were limits based on the number of files you could have, but I thought that was more do do with Sharepoint than OneDrive, i.e. only a problem on the business side, but I could be mistaken on that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/
This is about Onedrive for Business.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@scottalanmiller said:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/
This is about Onedrive for Business.
The article said that ODfB was 1TB, not unlimited. OneDrive NOT for business is the one with the 10GB and 20K files limits. As discussed ad nauseum in other threads.
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For my use case, it is unlimited, but I could see how you could say it not truly unlimited, yet...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/
The problem is your using the business product. In this case the consumer product is better.
That's the limited service I'm talking about and the one we've discussed in other threads. Anything but unlimited...
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/
That article is specifically talking about ODfB.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
For my use case, it is unlimited, but I could see how you could say it not truly unlimited, yet...
No, for your case you aren't using that much. That's nothing like being unlimited. For "someone's case" any service is unlimited. We shouldn't just start labeling anything unlimited and saying "on, by unlimited I thought you meant more than I used." Unlimited means something specific. OneDrive isn't even an attempt at unlimited. It's not large enough to back up my home storage. It's not big enough to back up my GoPro footage. It's not big enough for tons and tons of common usages. There are lots of things for which it is plenty, like photos and MP3s for normal people. But it can't even back up my MP3 collection, it's too small.
So I have about five personal use cases that each, individually, would overrun it. It's not even unlimited for casual use cases.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage-faq/
The problem is your using the business product. In this case the consumer product is better.
That's the limited service I'm talking about and the one we've discussed in other threads. Anything but unlimited...
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-limits-of-unlimited-onedrive-storage/
That article is specifically talking about ODfB.
Is that true? It says OneDrive Unlimited. Not OneDrive for Business Unlimited. Can you find anything that says that OneDrive Unlimited is actually unlimited? A Microsoft site is not an adequate reference as they've already shown that unlimited to them is marketing for "very limited." Is there some reason to suspect that OneDrive is actually unlimited?
And again, doesn't matter, I have ODfB and OD and neither have been upgraded to the larger limits anyway. So the point is moot in my case.
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I don't disagree that there are problems, but I do believe they are working to fix them. Should they have waited to call it unlimited until they fixed said problem, sure, but it's not the end of the world, and for more normal users they will see it as unlimited and when they start to approach those problem areas, hopefully MS will be ahead of the curve and continuously pushing the upper limits until they have none.
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Not all customers have unlimited yet. We have 3 that we manage that are. Because we are a partner account I am sure it will take much longer for us to get it.
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@Dashrender said:
I don't disagree that there are problems, but I do believe they are working to fix them. Should they have waited to call it unlimited until they fixed said problem, sure, but it's not the end of the world, and for more normal users they will see it as unlimited and when they start to approach those problem areas, hopefully MS will be ahead of the curve and continuously pushing the upper limits until they have none.
Maybe, but when people are told unlimited they expect it and behave differently. It's not even reasonably close to unlimited is the problem. If you upload an MP3 collection or a photo collection, for example, you might only get 100GB!! Calling something "unlimited" when it is smaller than the very, very limited products that much of the competition has is a major problem.
To get any reasonable capacity out of the 20K file limit issue you have to manage things carefully, otherwise you'll have lots of Word, Excel, MP3 and other small files clogging up your capacity.
The bottom line is, "unlimited" when very, very limited isn't unlimited and isn't an attempt at being so. This is so dramatically far from unlimited that I can't believe anyone defends it. It's not like it's 20 million file limit and 1TB file sizes. It's limits that nearly any user looking for more than the free DropBox offers will run into as problems. For whom does it really appear as unlimited?
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Here are some things that make me feel it is not unlimited:
- Can a photographer upload his photo collection to it? No
- Can you upload your GoPro videos that lots of kids take? No
- Can you upload your MP3 collection for semi-serious music collectors? No
- Can you upload even a single BluRay or other HD movie rip? No
- Can you upload a VM image backup? Not normally, no.
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It's kind of like saying the the speed limit is no longer 55MPH, it's now unlimited*.
*unlimited is 65MPH
Sure, there are a few, really casual drivers that didn't want to go over 65 but did want a little more than 55MPH, but nearly anyone who cared about having the 55MPH speed limit wants more than 65MPH. It's not like raising it to 200 and saying "Okay, yes, there are a handful of cars on the market that under ideal conditions might actually go over 200, we understand that it is theoretically possible to break the limit if you put in some real effort and try really hard to do so." No, it's everyday users going over the limit without having any idea that they are doing something "dramatic."
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Again, I agree that they started tossing around the term unlimited to early, but they at least claim to be working to fix it.
