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by tinus_hn 3173 days ago
At least for the OneDrive for Business offering, it’s easy for them to offer 1tb of storage since you’re never going to be able to be use it anyway, the sync client will crash and burn long before you get near that.

It is not in the same league as Dropbox.
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Elepsis 3173 days ago
The 1 TB storage that you get with regular Office 365 memberships is the regular OneDrive service, not OneDrive for Business. It works pretty well with large accounts.

Also, it's likely that your past experience is with the old OneDrive for Business client. Last year the normal OneDrive client learned to sync OneDrive for Business data, and reliability and performance improved quite a bit.

(I worked on OneDrive until last summer, but I don't currently work at Microsoft.)

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tinus_hn 3172 days ago
No, my experience is with the ‘modern’ client. It is less terrible than the old one but still unreliable.
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CodeWriter23 3172 days ago
Did they remove the hard limit of 20,000 files per OneDrive? Because if not, one would need to average 50MB per file to fill the 1TB up.
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kayoone 3173 days ago
OneDrive is no Dropbox (which i use aswell in its free form for sharing) but it works fine for me for general sync and storage.
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