

Everyone with an Apple ID gets 5GB of iCloud storage accessible on the iPhone, iPad or on iCloud. OneDrive is ideal for those who are already working with Office Suite because you get free access to Office 365. This setting lets you configure the maximum speed at which the OneDrive sync app (OneDrive.exe) can download files. The next tier, targeting the professional.
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The OneDrive 50GB limited features plan costs ₹ 123 per month, after which you enter the Office 365 premium plans: The 1TB OneDrive storage that includes all premium and security features costs ₹ 360 a month, while the 5TB storage (1TB per person) is ₹ 460 per month. After the initial free 5GB of storage space, Standalone plan users have the option to upgrade to 100GB for only 1.99 per month.
#ONEDRIVE COST FOR FREE#
If you have a Microsoft or Outlook account, you will start off with 5GB of cloud storage for free that is not much in comparison with Google’s 15GB free storage. Besides, he added: “It would have been apt if Google had spoken about the additional security features that it is providing as part of this new launch."Ĭompeting cloud storage services also include Microsoft’s OneDrive. The only other major cloud storage player that offers 15GB free is Google Drive.Gogia believes that instead of naming the new service Google One, which “sounds strikingly similar to Microsoft OneDrive (launched 11 years ago)", Google would have done better had it used an extended brand name like Google Drive+.

In comparison, Dropbox offers 2GB free and Box offers 10GB. The 50GB option will be discontinued.) There’s no word on what’s going to happen to the current 50GB subscription option. ( Update: We've just gotten word from Microsoft Singapore that the new prices will be S$3.00/month for 100GB and S$6.00/month for 200GB. We’ve yet to get the local prices, but as a reference, currently it costs S$10.99/month for an additional 100GB and S$15.99/month for an additional 200GB. Alternatively, you could sign up for OneDrive for Business, which offers 1TB of storage for US$2.50/month per user.Īccording to Microsoft, current subscribers will automatically be moved to the new prices.If you want more than 15GB of OneDrive storage but don’t want to subscribe to Office 365, there are new, lower-priced monthly subscription storage options.More specifically, the S$13.80/month Office 365 Home will land you 1TB per person (up to 5 people) and the S$9.80/month Office 365 Personal and S$108/4-year University will get 1TB per subscription. Office 365 subscribers will get 1TB (nice!).From next month onwards, OneDrive will come with 15GB for free (up from 7GB previously).A particular pleasing piece of news that greeted us today is that Microsoft has announced that it’s more than doubling its OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) cloud storage for both regular Microsoft account holders and Office 365 subscribers.īut up to how much exactly? To summarize: Here at HardwareZone, we always hold the view that there’s no such thing as too much storage.
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Update (June 25, 2014): Added local prices for new storage plans. Microsoft OneDrive Goes to 15GB Free Office 365 Users Get 1TB
