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Microsoft too: https://www.techradar.com/pro/exclusive-microsoft-quietly-ends-unlimited-cloud-storage-option-on-onedrive https://www.techradar.com/pro/exclusive

Microsoft too: https://www.techradar.com/pro/exclusive-microsoft-quietly-ends-unlimited-cloud-storage-option-on-onedrive https://www.techradar.com/pro/exclusive-microsoft-quietly-en... It's bitten a team I work with pretty hard, who for some inexplicable reason decided to store everything on OneDrive instead of our enormous on-prem NAS. Even more fun; all of their accounts still say "XTB of unlimited", the new data caps seem to be different for every user (everyone gets cut off at different amounts), and IT can't even get a straight answer about what the new caps are.

kevingadd 2y ago
The new default is that everything goes to OneDrive. If you have data on your hard disk in regular Documents folders, it will move it to OneDrive without asking you.
- angry_moose 2y ago
  No, this was a conscious decision on their part that they would store X00GB phsyics simulation results on OneDrive instead of the on-prem system that every other department uses. They've even written it up that its considered their "standard practice". OneDrive has been worse in just about every possible benchmark so no one is sure why they did it. Best guess is it was some HPPO decision, who may or may not still be with the company.
  - dijit 2y ago
    Both of you are correct; it may have been an intentional choice by your team (since, otherwise it would go to a private onedrive, not a shared OneDrive). It's also true that Documents are linked to OneDrive now in corp environments. I think there's a way to disable it, but of course there's a different setting for the Office Suite, they also default to OneDrive.
    - kevingadd 2y ago
      I don't think this is restricted to corp environments anymore. I did a personal Windows 11 install and it started moving all of my stuff to OneDrive, and the way it did it (move instead of copy, across drives) caused me data loss. :(
  - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
    They must have terrific Internet, or the data is never read
benhurmarcel 2y ago
My company is going through that with Google Workspace. In most cases the teams who take that decision do so because they don’t like to have project files spread over 2 locations (code and simulations on a network drive, documents on the cloud). It doesn’t have anything to do with available storage.

kevingadd 2y ago

The new default is that everything goes to OneDrive. If you have data on your hard disk in regular Documents folders, it will move it to OneDrive without asking you.

angry_moose 2y ago
No, this was a conscious decision on their part that they would store X00GB phsyics simulation results on OneDrive instead of the on-prem system that every other department uses. They've even written it up that its considered their "standard practice". OneDrive has been worse in just about every possible benchmark so no one is sure why they did it. Best guess is it was some HPPO decision, who may or may not still be with the company.
- dijit 2y ago
  Both of you are correct; it may have been an intentional choice by your team (since, otherwise it would go to a private onedrive, not a shared OneDrive). It's also true that Documents are linked to OneDrive now in corp environments. I think there's a way to disable it, but of course there's a different setting for the Office Suite, they also default to OneDrive.
  - kevingadd 2y ago
    I don't think this is restricted to corp environments anymore. I did a personal Windows 11 install and it started moving all of my stuff to OneDrive, and the way it did it (move instead of copy, across drives) caused me data loss. :(
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
  They must have terrific Internet, or the data is never read

benhurmarcel 2y ago

My company is going through that with Google Workspace. In most cases the teams who take that decision do so because they don’t like to have project files spread over 2 locations (code and simulations on a network drive, documents on the cloud). It doesn’t have anything to do with available storage.