Microsoft starts cutting down storage for OneDrive accounts bigger than 1 TB

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Changes with a high impact have been announced by Microsoft some time ago regarding its OneDrive cloud storage service. The Windows developer had announced that users would no longer be able to own unlimited storage accounts. The Unlimited status was prior given to users in smaller portions of 10 TB.

Unlimited data lures out the hoarders

Microsoft considered that this was taken advantage of by larger corporations and thus decided to cut down the access accounts have to unlimited storage. Unlimited storage will still be an available feature, but it will only be made available to users that also have an Office 365 subscription.

This isn’t news as Microsoft warned users in advance

While the announcement was made some time ago, Microsoft couldn’t afford to implement these changes immediately, due to the backlash it would have received from the community and its consumers. Even so, after having a lot of time to prepare for the inevitable, the customers are still pretty upset with the decision.

It’s time for users to shrink down on data

The previous announcement said that the process of flagging accounts that exceeds their new space allocations will start on the 1st of March. Since that date has arrived and passed, consumers are expected to comply with the new regulations. To be more specific, Microsoft will start to reduce the content of accounts that surpass the new maximum size, which is 1 TB.

It is important to mention that 1 TB of data is still a lot of space. There are a lot of people that don’t have local hard drives that can store 1 TB, so for them having 1 TB of cloud storage is more than enough. This will mostly impact users that store incredibly large amounts of data, also known as “data hoarders”. Those that do not comply risk to lose potentially important data as Microsoft won’t take the time to sort through everyone’s files to differentiate the important items from the regular ones.

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