Microsoft 365: From 6 TB to 2 TB – Microsoft cuts family storage
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Microsoft 365: Cloud storage in the family plan is being slashed from 6 TB to 2 TB. Anyone on the subscription close to the limit should check their storage usage now.
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Microsoft is reducing cloud storage in the Microsoft 365 family plan. Instead of up to 6 TB, just 2 TB will have to suffice for everyone going forward, as heise online reports.
Under the new quota, all users on the family plan share 2 TB of OneDrive storage combined. Compared with the previous maximum of 6 TB, that is only one-third of the prior volume – a significant blow for anyone who shares the subscription with five or six members.
What Microsoft customers need to know now
Anyone on the family plan who was previously close to the 6 TB cap should keep an eye on their OneDrive storage usage before the new rules take effect. The gap between the old and new quota is stark: instead of 6 TB, all users will share just 2 TB going forward – a loss of two-thirds of the previous volume.
What remains unclear so far
The exact timing of the transition – the cutoff date, any grace periods, the impact on existing subscriptions – is not covered in the available heise online excerpt. Nor does the available text piece include any official explanation from Microsoft for the move.
In the end, only one new number is clear: 2 TB for everyone – and thus significantly less OneDrive storage than Microsoft customers on the family plan have been used to.
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