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Yeah, literally scrambled and verified but I still have 25Terabytes of data (this is the limit since forever) with no notice of reduction. I'm not saying that t

Yeah, literally scrambled and verified but I still have 25Terabytes of data (this is the limit since forever) with no notice of reduction. I'm not saying that this isn't true, but I'm saying that McGill admins can set data limits. Edit: our IT admins are really baffled too and will now verify with Microsoft if this is an actual thing or just poor phrasing from McGill. Update: there'll be a change apparently but not this draconian. Storage will be limited to a minimum of 100GB/user with an additional 100TB "pooled" storage for everyone. While this is a shock to me and my admin, McGill's policy is still exceptionally draconian.

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Terretta 3y ago
25TB would be $750 monthly if I read it right. Compare that to datacenter NAS with RAID and with replica NAS redundancy and operating overhead (space, power, people), you're looking at a 9 months to 18 months price tradeoff before factoring in how to maintain a rotating set of users/accounts' storage. Storage is an area it's not difficult to do better than cloud if you are single user just storing one user's content, but it's much harder to do better than cloud if you have user management at scale to add in.
tallanvor 3y ago
What Microsoft is saying is that they're limiting OneDrive accounts to a max of 100GB, but that comes from the 100TB of pooled storage for students since those accounts are free. Faculty accounts (A3 or A5 licenses per a link posted by someone else) will add an additional 50 or 100GB of space since the school is actually paying for those licenses. And schools can buy additional storage in 10TB blocks. Clearly it's primarily a cost saving measure, and I suspect it will be a significant change for some schools, but I suspect the numbers chosen were based on what most schools are using.

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Yeah, literally scrambled and verified but I still have 25Terabytes of data (this is the limit since forever) with no notice of reduction. I'm not saying that t

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Terretta 3y ago
25TB would be $750 monthly if I read it right. Compare that to datacenter NAS with RAID and with replica NAS redundancy and operating overhead (space, power, people), you're looking at a 9 months to 18 months price tradeoff before factoring in how to maintain a rotating set of users/accounts' storage. Storage is an area it's not difficult to do better than cloud if you are single user just storing one user's content, but it's much harder to do better than cloud if you have user management at scale to add in.
tallanvor 3y ago
What Microsoft is saying is that they're limiting OneDrive accounts to a max of 100GB, but that comes from the 100TB of pooled storage for students since those accounts are free. Faculty accounts (A3 or A5 licenses per a link posted by someone else) will add an additional 50 or 100GB of space since the school is actually paying for those licenses. And schools can buy additional storage in 10TB blocks. Clearly it's primarily a cost saving measure, and I suspect it will be a significant change for some schools, but I suspect the numbers chosen were based on what most schools are using.