Onedrive is shrinking
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Fake? I don't think there was anything fake about it, was there?
Other than that they kept promoting "unlimited" but kept having limits and never ended up rolling out the "unlimited" as it was. Some of us were still on the waiting list to get it by the time that it went away. Some people got it, but I have no idea what percentage. It was all new users signing up to take advantage of the unlimited marketing, not the people who had tried it originally. Maybe I'm one of the few, but maybe that was the norm, too.
Did you fill what space you had? Apparently, when you fill the space you get allocated another 10TB. When you fill that you get another 10TB, and so and so until infinity. So I suspect you did actually have unlimited storage.
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I've heard of people getting upped to 40TB once reaching 10TB. I was really close to testing that, but apparently Microsoft thinks we (ab)use the service.
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75TB as an "outlyer" seems a bit ridiculous for MS to call abuse on a system touted as "unlimited." It's understood, generally, that unlimited isn't really unlimited. But 75TB seems like more of a "normal" number for people with fast WAN links than a crazy one. If they said 250TB, I'd be shocked. But for 75TB to be so high that they point to it as the edge case... how small were they expecting this to be?
I have maybe 40TB of storage at home. If I was to back up to their service my home storage (isn't that the idea?) then I'd be in the same broad range.
If you have a lot of home videos (GoPro users anyone?) or a movie collection (don't tons of people have those?) or other large collections this seems like it wouldn't be normal, but common. These are reasonable things for consumers to own and want to back up.
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And then there's this guy:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28309842-LOL-VZ-called-me-about-my-bandwidth-usage-Gotta-go-BizI wonder if he's one of the offenders too.
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That is about 7.2 days of full gigabit speeds with no overhead or interruptions.
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Unless its pizza, offering unlimited anything is just dumbass. What doesn't make sense is why someone storing 75TB of data on their Office 365 accounts means Microsoft thinks it's ok to reduce my free space on Hotmail from 40GB to 5GB. Especially as that extra storage was earned by me as a so-called loyalty bonus.
By all means remove offers from new users signing up, but why screw your existing, loyal customers? I've been with Hotmail for about 20 years.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Unless its pizza, offering unlimited anything is just dumbass. What doesn't make sense is why someone storing 75TB of data on their Office 365 accounts means Microsoft thinks it's ok to reduce my free space on Hotmail from 40GB to 5GB. Especially as that extra storage was earned by me as a so-called loyalty bonus.
By all means remove offers from new users signing up, but why screw your existing, loyal customers? I've been with Hotmail for about 20 years.
Ya that makes no sense at all. Especially because the two services are seemingly unrelated, AND because you earned the extra space. You did work for them.
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http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/11/microsoft-caves-and-gives-15gb-back-to-legacy-onedrive-users/
You can keep the 15GB free if you go to the link in the article.
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@dafyre said:
@scottalanmiller Right. My question was more along the lines of does it Sync files like Drop Box?
With DropBox when I log into the client from another computer, it immediately starts downloading everything... I'd rather have something that will just let me keep dumping files into it, or download just the ones I need.
Dropbox has an option called selective sync. During your initial setup, the wizard has an option to select what you want to sync from your dropbox to the machine. I have a 1TB account that i've been using for several years, my home devices has all media files synced and work machines only documents that i need to be used in both home and office.
I was interested in the Amazon cloud due to the unlimited option, but reading through the posts here, i think i will stick with dropbox!
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@johnhooks said:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/11/microsoft-caves-and-gives-15gb-back-to-legacy-onedrive-users/
You can keep the 15GB free if you go to the link in the article.
thanks!
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Yay!
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@scottalanmiller said:
It's just storage, not a backup system.
Why does a storage system that syncs not qualify as storage?
I wouldn't consider a syncing program to be backup at all.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
It's just storage, not a backup system.
Why does a storage system that syncs not qualify as storage?
I wouldn't consider a syncing program to be backup at all.
Huh? I think you just repeated what I said asking for clarification on something I did not say. I'm confused.
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Someone asked if Amazon Cloud Drive syncs like OneDrive, and you said no, because it was storage not backup.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
Hmm... Food for thought...
Still thinking about this... If my hard drive dies and I re-install Amazon Cloud Drive (ACD), will it download all the files back to my computer, or can I just leave everything parked in ACD and just start adding stuff back to it?
It's just storage, not a backup system.
This is what I said. Nothing about OneDrive or ODfB in here.
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@BRRABill said:
Someone asked if Amazon Cloud Drive syncs like OneDrive, and you said no, because it was storage not backup.
That was me. I was asking if Amazon Cloud Drive did its syncing ike DropBox or if I had to manually move my files up.
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ah, and I was saying that it doesn't have a "restore" function. It's not backup NOR is it a sync. It is designed to hold files it is told to hold. It does not "mimic a local file structure" and have a method for restoring that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
ah, and I was saying that it doesn't have a "restore" function. It's not backup NOR is it a sync. It is designed to hold files it is told to hold. It does not "mimic a local file structure" and have a method for restoring that.
So you are also not classifyinig OneDrive, ODfB, or Dropbox as "backup", then, right?
You've mentioned "storage" and "backup" a few times in various threads. I was just saying I think there is a third class, into which OneDrive and DropBox fall into.
I would actually consider them storage. It functions the same as Amazon Cloud Drive, it's just easier to access your files.
Or since those program tap into the local file system, do you not agree with that?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
ah, and I was saying that it doesn't have a "restore" function. It's not backup NOR is it a sync. It is designed to hold files it is told to hold. It does not "mimic a local file structure" and have a method for restoring that.
So you are also not classifyinig OneDrive, ODfB, or Dropbox as "backup", then, right?
You've mentioned "storage" and "backup" a few times in various threads. I was just saying I think there is a third class, into which OneDrive and DropBox fall into.
I would actually consider them storage. It functions the same as Amazon Cloud Drive, it's just easier to access your files.
Or since those program tap into the local file system, do you not agree with that?
I would call OneDrive and DropBox and Amazon all storage - definitely not backups. OneDrive for Business is an edge case since it's part of SharePoint.
OneDrive doesn't really tap into local storage other than keeping a sync'ed copy of files local. Normal Apps access those files through OneDrive, not directly to the file path, at least by default.
