Microsoft offers 100GB free bonus OneDrive storage globally

[HEXUS]

And has started to give an additional free 100GB to verified DropBox users.

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[Dooms]

I haven't spent much time with OneDrive but like you (author) my extra samsung storage on dropbox is soon to expire and 100-200GB free storage is tempting. The problem is this is turning out like credit card juggling... Fill 100GB on one service for a year, get the next promo to move everything over for another year etc.

Might just throw a small amount of money at Google and be done with it (or buy a chromebook and get the storage for free).

[watercooled]

The Chromebook offer is also time-limited IIRC?

[cheesemp]

Doesn't work for me. I just get this offer is not available in your region...

[Dooms]

The Chromebook offer is also time-limited IIRC?

Ah just checked. Yes its also 2 years which is a shame.

Doesn't work for me. I just get this offer is not available in your region...

Yeah the 1st link doesn't seem to work, gives you the region error. The 2nd one works fine so I now have 129GB on OneDrive which isn't bad

[mtyson]

The first link (Bing Rewards worldwide) seems to have expired - however since I've already gained the 100GB from that offer I can't do the same thing again...

[crossy]

Well, if you have a Dropbox account you can get an additional 100GB free OneDrive storage, thanks to a new promotion Microsoft has put in place. As noted by NeoWin, all you have to do is visit the OneDrive bonus offer page and verify your Dropbox account. This extra storage expires in one year.

Hmm, that could be useful since (like the author) my Samsung/Dropbox deal has expired and I've only got 8.5GB (and no intention of paying the daft amount that Dropbox want for the first paid-for level - 1TB is way too much). Thanks for the info!

I like to use these cloud systems to backup photos when I'm on holiday. So I'll have to check if the Android OneDrive client will autobackup photos and, most importantly, has a setting to prevent syncs if not on WiFi.

Of course I wouldn't be looking at OneDrive if GoogleDrive wasn't (a) so bad at restricting access to cloud content (i.e. "no, I don't want my photos to appear on G+!") and had the Linux client that Google have been promising for, what, three years now. (And yes, I know there's ways to get it and there's no official OneDrive client for Linux).

Of course Mr Microsoft, if you want to increase OneDrive usage then perhaps persuading O'Reilly to allow title sync to OneDrive, like it does for Dropbox, would be a good idea.

[sykobee]

I've given up on the "credit card" storage juggling and decided to just pay for a service that had been working for me (in this case, Dropbox). My Samsung free 50GB was about to expire, and I wanted to upload 100GB of photos, so I thought "screw it, it costs two pints a month and stops the other half nagging me about backups".

Although apparently Amazon Prime customers get 1TB of free storage as well...

[cheesemp]

Doesn't work for me. I just get this offer is not available in your region...

Yeah the 1st link doesn't seem to work, gives you the region error. The 2nd one works fine so I now have 129GB on OneDrive which isn't bad

Nope - Neither work for me. the first just goes to the bing rewards page. The second takes me to a page that wants to take me to the bing rewards page... Oh well. I'm not going to fight for it.

[Dooms]

Although apparently Amazon Prime customers get 1TB of free storage as well...

Just checked Amazon Cloud Storage as I'm a Prime member and not looked at it yet. 10GB normal storage and unlimited photo.

For Photo's I'll just continue using Flickr's 1TB free instead.

[LSG501]

already got the first one, it worked fine yesterday. Can't get dropbox to work....

[J3FFW1SH]

Thanks for the links but neither of them worked

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzyvNrPAfLJEclVXLWRiSm1aVmM/view?usp=sharing

[aniilv]

Onedrive is horrible! Forget about it if you care about syncing photos from phone since this service a) downgrades quality of photo (3MB on my phone, 1.5MB on onedrive) and b) filters everything you upload, so if you get taged for nudity(even if its a photo of say artwork) it wont be backed up.

[Tattysnuc]

Doesn;t work for me - simply says "oops there was a problem" when trying to save down the pdf file they save in your Dropbox account. Have tried several times, to several locations, using Firefox and IE - no joy. Have just raised a ticket with MS to see why not...

[zsde]

My data in the "cloud"? No thank you. Not that gullible yet. Good old HDD which I can switch on and off leaves me in control.

[watercooled]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02...quation_group/



Yeah I know it's not really the same.