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Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by hemancuso »

jorgeleo wrote: post #19
hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

The problem I have with putting my data in online drives is that they have an open copy to my data, which is something I don't like Does expand drive has the ability to: - set the a file password (system level/folder level/file level) - every file uploaded gets encrypted first with the appropriate password - files downloaded get decrypted on arrival ? In this way the space provider does not have access to my unencryp…

Encryption and Offline access are the two major features planned for V5 coming next year [All purchases get 1 year [or unlimited] of updates]

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by andrewmunsell »

hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

I bought a license a little while back to mount SFTP servers (for dev work on a VPS rather than in trying to work in a local VM), S3, and Google Drive-- it's a great product that works well.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by comebackshane »

matthewarkin wrote: post #8

They were already offering 1TB of storage for free, realistically they are probably rebranding 1TB to Unlimited because I highly doubt most of their users were getting near a TB of storage. (It was also 1 TB per user, so 5TB free for a Home account)

Had this exact same thought. Upload rates being what they are, I doubt many people are uploading that much. This plan could come back to bite them down the line if Google Fiber (or other similarly fast services) ever gets a wide rollout, though.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by Retric »

jorgeleo wrote: post #19
hemancuso wrote: post #7

Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive Mount OneDrive (and OneDrive business, soon) as a network drive in Mac/Windows (soon Linux!). Smart local cache. Access the data on demand without syncing the repo in first. Also supports gdrive, s3, sftp, Dropbox, box and more. Makes an unlimited account make a lot more sense if you only have a 128GB SSD. Use selective sync with the prima…

The problem I have with putting my data in online drives is that they have an open copy to my data, which is something I don't like Does expand drive has the ability to: - set the a file password (system level/folder level/file level) - every file uploaded gets encrypted first with the appropriate password - files downloaded get decrypted on arrival ? In this way the space provider does not have access to my unencryp…

This dramaticly increases costs as most cloud storage pricing is based around the assumption that most people upload lot's of duplicate files. Even if it's just you and your grandparents having copy's of the same holiday photos.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by freiheit »

Have they fixed the other problems with this service?

We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found:

- There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item limit. (files or directories) There's ways to get around this by creating additional collections, but that's hard and has its own limitations and issues. - Individual files had a 2GB size limit. - Those combined to mean that the "1TB" space limit was meaningless.

Note: "One Drive" and "One Drive for Business" are totally different. The stuff connected to "Office 365" is the business stuff and it's really some friendlier front-ends on some kind of Cloud SharePoint thing...

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by freiheit »

richardlblair wrote: post #16
curiousDog wrote: post #6

They should remove/increase the file size and count limit first. Technically, that's also probably the bigger challenge.

As much as it's a pain in the ass, you can always a multipart RAR to get around this. Again, I know, pain in the ass, but it's a work around.

Then you'll run into the 20,000 item limit faster...

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by freiheit »

matthewarkin wrote: post #8

They were already offering 1TB of storage for free, realistically they are probably rebranding 1TB to Unlimited because I highly doubt most of their users were getting near a TB of storage. (It was also 1 TB per user, so 5TB free for a Home account)

It's kinda hard to get to 1TB with a 20,000 item limit...

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by ulber »

freiheit wrote: post #25

Have they fixed the other problems with this service? We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found: - There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item…

>Note: "One Drive" and "One Drive for Business" are totally different. The stuff connected to "Office 365" is the business stuff and it's really some friendlier front-ends on some kind of Cloud SharePoint thing...

From the link: "We’ve started rolling this out today to Office 365 Home, Personal, and University customers." I'm using Office 365 University and it definitely is the normal "One Drive" (just offers more space for it). The branding here seems a bit confused.

Re: Unlimited Storage with Office 365 Subscription

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Post by vidyesh »

freiheit wrote: post #25

Have they fixed the other problems with this service? We did a pilot of Office 365 with an eye on using the OneDrive stuff (in addition to migrating to the cloud Exchange service) and found: - There's no mac client for the business one drive. Only windows. - Documents are silently modified by adding a "signature" to them. In some cases this wouldn't matter, but in others it definitely would. - There was a 20,000 item…

- The Mac Client for OneDrive Pro ( SkyDrive Pro ) seems to be 'In Development'[1] (OneDrive For Business Sync for Mac). But the OneDrive App works for OneDrive for Business too.

- OneDrive now supports 10GB files.[2]

- I am not certain but from what I know. The 20,000 limit is a suggested limit which isn't imposed. One can upload more than 20,000 files but above 20,000 files there is some sync issue with the present sync tool.

[1]https://office.com/roadmap

[2]https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive-now-supports-10-gb-files/

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