I had with one of my colleagues from Singapore, and we were talking about personal cloud storage. I’ve not look at it for a long time. In fact – at home I subscribed to Dropbox (and getting 1TB) and also Office 365 for the Microsoft Office subscription. What I didn’t realised is that with my Office 365 subscription – I get 1TB space. In fact – my colleague told me that Onedrive is rolling out unlimited storage for the subscribers (awesome). This is a good time for me to streamline my personal cloud storage.
So I did some research of myself to double confirm. First port of call is of course to check on my personal storage allocation:
OK – so I get only 1.02TB, though the line chart for the storage looks a bit confusing. Well doesn’t matter. I’ll find out more once I upload some of my files over. So now, I know that I am not part of the roll out. So I quickly went to search for information regarding the roll out. As of 27th October 2014, where they announced about no storage limit, it says that new subscribers will have unlimited. I guess people like me will need to wait a while more. Not an issue. I don’t think I have that much files that command me to have more than 1TB space. Even my photos are in the hundreds of gigs (surprisingly).
refer – https://blog.onedrive.com/office-365-onedrive-unlimited-storage/
So I quickly when and try to put myself into the waitlist! Let’s see if I get it 🙂
Moving my files..
So now that I know that I have options to move my files, I quickly went and check how many files I have in my photo library!
Not many files indeed. Just 51k photos and over 609GB. That’s pretty awesome. Though, it will take me ages before I am able to transfer all my files over there!
This is when I wish I have 1GB fibre internet at home! It’s ok. Leave the computer on for 1 week or so, I should be able to clear off. In fact as of this morning (which is about 12 hours after, I am done with 24.8GB).