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The OneDrive Blog
OneDrive storage plans change in pursuit of productivity and collaboration
By The OneDrive Team - November 2, 2015
We’re making changes to OneDrive storage plans for consumers and are committed to making this transition as smooth as possible.
Since we started to roll out unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 consumer subscribers,
a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collections and DVR recordings.
In some instances, this exceeded 75 TB per user or 14,000 times the average.
Instead of focusing on extreme backup scenarios,
we want to remain focused on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit the majority of OneDrive users.
Here are the changes:
We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers.
Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage.
100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
Free OneDrive storage will decrease from 15 GB to 5 GB for all users, current and new.
The 15 GB camera roll storage bonus will also be discontinued.
These changes will start rolling out in early 2016.
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More information:
https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/
From OneDrive Changes FAQ:
"What happens if I have extra storage from a promotion or some other offer?
The storage you have as part of other promotions is not affected by this change.
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https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes_FAQ/
I wonder what this means for all the "old customers" who currently has 25 GB storage space on OneDrive...?
At first i thought this was an early April 1st-joke.....
If there is a problem with a few customers uploading a lot of data, then of course it is appropriate to reduce the storage space by setting a limit.
But why decrease the space for all others ???
There is no logic behind that....
There is an alternative to OneDrive, Google offers 15 GB for FREE on Google-Drive....
"Store any file
Drive starts you with 15 GB of free Google online storage, so you can keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos – anything.
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https://www.google.com/drive/?utm_medium=et&utm_source=about&utm_campaign=et-about
And Google also allows uploading BIG files:
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File sizes
Documents
Size: Up to 1,024,000 characters, regardless of the number of pages or font size.
A document that is converted to Google Docs can be up to 50 MB.
Other files
Size: Up to 5 TB for files uploaded but not converted to Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides.
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https://support.google.com/drive/answer/37603?hl=en&ref_topic=2375187