OneDrive for Business Drops Unlimited Storage Plan

Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business service no longer offers an unlimited storage option for commercial customers. As reported by TechRadar, the company’s OneDrive for Business (Plan 2), which offered unlimited storage for approximately $10 per user per month is no longer available for new customers.

The company still offers OneDrive for Business (Plan 1) with 1 TB of storage for $5 per user/month. The OneDrive for Business Plan 2, however, came with some asterisks despite the unlimited storage promise.

First of all, commercial customers got 1 TB of storage per user by default, which could be increased to 5 TB per user. To get additional storage, customers had to contact Microsoft support to get 25 TB of storage per user. Beyond that, Microsoft would only provide additional storage in the form of a 25 TB SharePoint team site.

“In response to customer demand, Microsoft has streamlined the purchasing process for customers who use OneDrive for Business standalone plans,” a Microsoft spokesperson told TechRadar Pro. “Customers currently on these plans will still be able to add seats and renew their license.”

You may remember that Microsoft also used to offer unlimited OneDrive storage to consumers with an Office 365 Home, Personal subscription, but the company ended that back in 2015. At the time, the company explained that a small number of customers were abusing the system to back up numerous PCs and entire movie collections.

While Microsoft didn’t say this time that some commercial customers were taking advantage of this “unlimited storage” feature, another company just did it: Dropbox, which also offered unlimited storage with its Advanced Plan, announced that it would stop doing that after noticing that some customers were using its “use as much space as you need” policy for unexpected personal use cases such as crypto mining.