100 GB OneDrive storage FREE for 2 years
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I suggested the 128GB because it is almost the same capacity as the 100Gb onedrive free storage and it's small enough to be used anywhere. :)
But it's just me. The 100gb onedrive is free so grab it if one prefers the cloud service.
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It is a good thing for those needing that much storage space and at $1.99 plus tax not a bad price.
True, 100GB is a lot of storage but for me I would like to have that much so I don't have to have a spare drive and being on the cloud it provides me with very a very solid disaster recovery tool. Heck, I can upload all of what I need to recover and restore my PC without much of an issue. And at 1.99/Plus Tax is cheap insurance, IMO.
Jeff
Just invest on a 128GB usb 3.0 flashdrive. You can recover everything you want 100x faster offline (anywhere) for a one time cost of $50+.
Buy the HP® x702W USB 3.0 Flash Drive 128GB at TigerDirect.ca
I would want to be able to restore everything if say, a fire wiped out my home. In that event I could lose all of my things include that flash-drive. With the cloud I don't have to worry about that issue.
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If you have that much data you want to save I would save the files to OneDrive and save them to a external drive also. That way you won't have to download 100 GB's of data if you ever decide you don't want to use OneDrive any more. It only cost $1.99 plus tax now. What's to stop MS from increasing the cost dramatically once they get everyone they can hooked into the 100 GB plan.
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If you have that much data you want to save I would save the files to OneDrive and save them to a external drive also. That way you won't have to download 100 GB's of data if you ever decide you don't want to use OneDrive any more. It only cost $1.99 plus tax now. What's to stop MS from increasing the cost dramatically once they get everyone they can hooked into the 100 GB plan.
Technically, anything can happen. But I want to have my key files/data off site so I can get at it when/if a major disaster occurs. I also have the option of Google Drive, which I use as well and it's cheap. So if MS does go up I can use Google.
An external drive is not the best way to recover from a total disaster, fire etc., I need to have my data off site for that. When I worked at several IT shops we had to have detailed plans for disaster recovery and I still follow them as much as I can and using the cloud is great for this.
Jeff
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I agree completely Jimbo :)
I was grandfathered with 25gb and I don't even have 1gb used lol after all of this time that passed
have noticed that if you do download content stored it comes back in a zip folder
Same here, Thrash. And I don't know how much I've used, but it's not anywhere close to 5 GB, even. And, with my Office 365 subscription I get 1 Terabyte, so what would I gain by getting another 100 GB?
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As Jimbo pointed out, speed and data usage are a big problem when using OneDrive, I have many GB's of photo's which I have digitized over many years, and for the last 15 years using digital cameras have lots of folders which I would like to upload to OneDrive but alas OneDrive can't do that, so a very tedious process to upload making more folders on OneDrive.
Hopefully that will change ...
Yep, I learned the hard way! It took three or four days for everything to upload and then not everything made it across. I had my Upload Center whining for a couple weeks until a fellow beta tester helped me straighten it out. And no, we weren't testing OneDrive. :) She runs a support center and took pity on me. 
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If you have that much data you want to save I would save the files to OneDrive and save them to a external drive also. That way you won't have to download 100 GB's of data if you ever decide you don't want to use OneDrive any more. It only cost $1.99 plus tax now. What's to stop MS from increasing the cost dramatically once they get everyone they can hooked into the 100 GB plan.
Technically, anything can happen. But I want to have my key files/data off site so I can get at it when/if a major disaster occurs. I also have the option of Google Drive, which I use as well and it's cheap. So if MS does go up I can use Google.
An external drive is not the best way to recover from a total disaster, fire etc., I need to have my data off site for that. When I worked at several IT shops we had to have detailed plans for disaster recovery and I still follow them as much as I can and using the cloud is great for this.
Jeff
That is a very good plan in theory. Disaster. Off-site. If disaster can strike anytime. It can strike anywhere. Even off-site.
If there is a total disaster, I won't have time to worry about file recovery. I have to recover my life back first or I may not exist any more to do any recovery at all.
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Technically, anything can happen. But I want to have my key files/data off site so I can get at it when/if a major disaster occurs. I also have the option of Google Drive, which I use as well and it's cheap. So if MS does go up I can use Google.
An external drive is not the best way to recover from a total disaster, fire etc., I need to have my data off site for that. When I worked at several IT shops we had to have detailed plans for disaster recovery and I still follow them as much as I can and using the cloud is great for this.
Jeff
+1
I do backup to the cloud and to a network drive. It doesn't even need to be a fire. A thunderstorm can be enough to kill a setup.
Of course most if not all of those providers intend to make something out of it. What goes round comes around(work).
It does not have to be OneDrive or any Ms. I have used a free option from Mozy for a few years. It worked well and never had a problem. I'm even paying now for a 50GB(work files) option. Nothing wrong with that.
The network drive I have to replace soon as it has been going for a number of years :)
No free lunches 
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I just hoped I would get that amount of storage because onedrive is always my friend ever since I got my new win8.1 pc its always been there. Lets just hope that carries on
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If you have that much data you want to save I would save the files to OneDrive and save them to a external drive also. That way you won't have to download 100 GB's of data if you ever decide you don't want to use OneDrive any more. It only cost $1.99 plus tax now. What's to stop MS from increasing the cost dramatically once they get everyone they can hooked into the 100 GB plan.
Technically, anything can happen. But I want to have my key files/data off site so I can get at it when/if a major disaster occurs. I also have the option of Google Drive, which I use as well and it's cheap. So if MS does go up I can use Google.
An external drive is not the best way to recover from a total disaster, fire etc., I need to have my data off site for that. When I worked at several IT shops we had to have detailed plans for disaster recovery and I still follow them as much as I can and using the cloud is great for this.
Jeff
That is a very good plan in theory. Disaster. Off-site. If disaster can strike anytime. It can strike anywhere. Even off-site.
If there is a total disaster, I won't have time to worry about file recovery. I have to recover my life back first or I may not exist any more to do any recovery at all.
Here's an example of why I like the cloud concept. I accidentally deleted some key files one day, Yes stupid but things like this do happen. Did I worry?? No, because I had all of those files on the cloud and I could restore them in a few minutes. Was that a total disaster.. no but it's an example of why having an off site storage/recovery site is important IMO.
I know that there is no perfect disaster recovery plan but I try to follow the rules and guidelines I was taught when I was actively involved in the IT field and they have served me well over the years. YMMV
Jeff
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