Microsoft reducing OneDrive Storage for Office 365 plans

Booooo. Not happy with this at all.

Microsoft is reducing the amount of storage you get with your Office 365 plan. Currently for the family plans, you get up to 6 users, each of who get 1TB each. Microsoft is now reducing that 6TB total down to 2TB total to be shared across all of the accounts on the plan.

Hi All,

That's a not very nice move.
Although I think it can work as Onedrive only takes the system drives. And symbolic links count to the system drive too.
But this was to be expected in some way or another.
I braced more for an enormous price hike.
Loved OneDrive Family, to protect friends and family who can't be bothered to back up.
NOT nice MS!!!

Ciao, Han

Microsoft has kept the price of OneDrive the same for quite a long time. They kept the $99 price for almost 12 years without a single price hike. The did raise the price to $129 back in 2025, but did give the account holder some additional co-pilot functionality.

My personal OneDrive folder is on a secondary drive on my computer. I put just the stuff I want into that folder. I'm not having it do things like my Desktop, my Downloads or My Documents. <These folders are mostly unused on my systems.. I only have like 120GB of stuff in my OneDrive, so this won't make a huge problem for me.

It's just the principal. For all the storage space you got, Office 365 for me was a no-brainer. You couldn't get close to 6TB of disk space for $99 and for 6 people. Now, for 2TB of space it's on-par with other offers from Apple, Dropbox, etc. It's still not a bad deal, but far less of an absolute bargain.

My second hand NAS costs me $0/yr...