OneDrive for Business Storage Limit: Understanding Plans and Limits

OneDrive for Business offers various storage plans to meet different business needs, with the most basic plan providing 1 TB of storage per user.

The storage limits vary depending on the plan, with the Business Essentials plan offering 1 TB, the Business plan offering 5 TB, and the Business Premium plan offering unlimited storage.

To give you a better idea, let's take a look at the storage limits for each plan. The Business Essentials plan has a 1 TB storage limit, while the Business plan has a 5 TB storage limit.

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You can increase OneDrive storage by consolidating multiple cloud storage service accounts to add space to OneDrive or OneDrive for Business using a free cloud backup service like CBackup.

The free cloud backup service, CBackup, can increase OneDrive storage for free by combining idle space from all cloud drives connected to it into a huge, even unlimited cloud storage to store files.

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To increase OneDrive storage in Microsoft 365, you need to use the Microsoft 365 admin center as an administrator.

You can log in to the Microsoft 365 admin center, choose Users > Active users, and then choose the user you want to change to increase OneDrive storage.

The default storage space for OneDrive users can be set in the Microsoft 365 admin center, and you can input the proper storage limit like 5120GB (5TB) or others.

Here are the steps to increase OneDrive storage in Microsoft 365:

You can repeat the same process for other users to increase OneDrive storage limit.

OneDrive for Business storage limits can be a bit confusing, but it's essential to understand them to manage your storage effectively. The minimum plan, OneDrive for Business (Plan 1), offers 1 TB of storage per user.

You can store a significant amount of data with this plan, including 1000 hours of high-definition video, 15,000 hours of online gaming, and over 60,000 high-resolution images.

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Here are the storage limits for the different OneDrive for Business plans:

These storage limits can be adjusted by administrators, and users can request additional storage up to 25 TB per user by contacting Microsoft Support.

If you had more than 100 GB of OneDrive data before February 1, you're in luck because Microsoft provided an interim license to 805 WSU users with more than 100 GB of OneDrive storage prior to February 1.

Interim license migration occurred on January 31 from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. for users with more than 100 GB of OneDrive storage only.

The interim license provides a 1 TB storage limit for OneDrive for affected users.

Interim licenses will expire on June 30, 2024, so be sure to use your extra storage wisely before then.

Interim licenses will retain Bookings and Intune licensing for affected WSU faculty and staff but will remove them from Bookings and Intune departmental groups.

You can free up your OneDrive account space by viewing files that take up more space and deleting files that are no longer needed.

There are also other ways to manage your OneDrive storage, such as not adding shared folders to your account, as this can take up more space.

Cloud to cloud backup or sync of your OneDrive files is another option, allowing you to transfer data to another cloud drive.

This method ensures you have a complete backup even if you delete all the files currently in the account.

With the minimum OneDrive for Business plan (Plan 1), you get 1 TB of storage, which is equivalent to storing 1000 hours of high-definition video, 15,000 hours of online gaming, or 20,000 hours of HD audio.

You can store over 60,000 high resolution images, over a million e-books in your digital library, or over a million Microsoft Office files in your 1 TB of storage.

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To add storage to OneDrive, home storage plan users can purchase additional storage online within their existing plan.

The Microsoft 365 plan provides the best value for storage and allows an individual user to increase storage up to 2TB.

Business storage plans are managed by the organization's administrators, who can increase OneDrive storage capacity to 5TB per user and request additional storage up to 25TB per user by contacting Microsoft support.

Here are some examples of what you can store in a 1 TB storage plan: