Microsoft offers 3GB of additional storage to students

[TGBSeth]

"Students can now receive an additional 3GB of cloud storage from Microsoft as long as they have a valid .edu email address.  Once you redeem your storage code from Microsoft, you will have an extra 3GB of Skydrive cloud storage."

 

FULL STORY: http://www.tgbuzz.com/2013/05/26/microsoft-offers-3gb-of-additional-storage-to-students/

 

What do you think?  Which cloud storage service do you prefer?

[felixbearpig]

That's very generous from Microsoft but I prefer not to have cloud storage

[Jamdude]

I use Google Drive and it's only £2 a month for 25GB storage, an extra 3GB doesn't really do much.  I'm sure that most people only use cloud storage for documents so don't even need much storage space.

[chriswills]

im a UK student and this only applies to US students :( 

[EChondo]

Uh...you could also use Mega and get 50GB.

[Legion]

An extra 3Gb isn't that much nowadays 

[KieranThePCGuy]

im a UK student and this only applies to US students :(

Same :(

[Scia]

I have 27gb skydrive [came with Office 365 University], 50gb dropbox [came with my Note 10.1], 5gb ubuntu one and 2x 5gb google drive, I think I'm fine ^^

[Scia]

That's very generous from Microsoft but I prefer not to have cloud storage

 

Well, for group projects and stuff it's actually quite nice to have a hub where everyone can dump his / her progress, files, articles and so on ^^

[TGBSeth]

An extra 3Gb isn't that much nowadays 

I agree but a lot of people use it just for documents, and 3GB is a lot of documents haha.

[fishymamba]

Pretty nice of them! more than enough for stuff related to school work.

[SnowBob]

How do you take advantage of this? I don't see where you can verify your .edu email.

[HK6]

That would be nice, but I don't have a .edu email address.

[Sneaky]

I think i'll stick with my 50GB dropbox cloud storage.

[TGBSeth]

Copy.com is having a promo currently where you begin with 15GB space and get 5GB per referral

https://copy.com?r=Q9kj6f

Thanks for the link, I had never heard of them but it looks like a good deal.

[MdX MaxX]

Sweet, more cloud storage I'm never going to use. :P

 

Nothing against Skydrive, but I have like 150GB between 4 other services, and most of that's empty.  :lol:

[GoodBytes]

Uh...you could also use Mega and get 50GB.

But you don't have a program like SkyDrive which puts a folder in your profile, where all you content are synced over network or internet, on all your other computers. This is great for laptop/desktop setup. I put my projects/assignments/etc there, so that the latest version is available on both my systems. My desktop does hourly backup with Windows 8 File History of my stuff, including my SkyDrive folder, just in case.

[EChondo]

But you don't have a program like SkyDrive which puts a folder in your profile, where all you content are synced over network or internet, on all your other computers. This is great for laptop/desktop setup. I put my projects/assignments/etc there, so that the latest version is available on both my systems. My desktop does hourly backup with Windows 8 File History of my stuff, including my SkyDrive folder, just in case.

I was just posting another alternative! I don't use online storage, I just create backups of mine on a RAID. But I know the benefits of online storage :)

[GoodBytes]

Ah ok. Sorry, I taught you didn't know about the program. :)

[Kamil]

I pretty much take all the free cloud storage I can get, why pay even a few bucks for 25GB with some particular provider when you can get 5GB with each of 5 pretty much equivalent services with their free packages.

 

Then again, I never use most of it. I mean, I have 32GB of ASUS web storage with my laptop, but in a couple years that'll run out so I don't put anything in it, and I really don't have anything that needs that much space.

[Ethnod]

Wow, this is very generous of Microsoft... sooooo... whats the catch? do they monitor your data and sell it for profit or something? MS have to have an angle here

[typetheed]

I already have 25GB on Skydrive for free when I made the switch from Live to Outlook early. It's been more then enough storage for me so far...

[winny3141]

Uh...you could also use Mega and get 50GB.

Its only a matter of time before that gets shut down... poor kimdotcom getting tortured by the govt. Anyway, Microsoft has always supported education. From discounts on Microsoft windows, To discounts on office software; this is one of the things thar are so great about Microsoft.

- winny3141 :D

[TGBSeth]

Its only a matter of time before that gets shut down... poor kimdotcom getting tortured by the govt. Anyway, Microsoft has always supported education. From discounts on Microsoft windows, To discounts on office software; this is one of the things thar are so great about Microsoft.

- winny3141 :D

Why would it get shut down?  They aren't breaking any laws haha.

[MzCatieB]

the only cloud storage i use is MEGA.co.nz