Microsoft OneDrive now only works with NTFS drives

[Master Disaster]

8 hours ago, djdwosk97 said:

Refs can be used on windows server. But its still weird that microsoft doesnt support it with one drive.

ReFS can be used on any Windows 8.1/Server 2612 or higer device but to do so you must go through the storage pool option (called storage spaces in Windows 10) in control panel, have more than one drive (so software RAID) and as yet it still cannot be used as a bootable volume.

[suicidalfranco]

people talking about apfs and refs when ZFS is around.... peasants

#zfsmasterrace

[flibberdipper]

People that use anything other than exFAT and NTFS for mass storage above 4GB genuinely worry me. Honestly kinda surprised this wasn't already a thing.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

people talking about apfs and refs when ZFS is around.... peasants

#zfsmasterrace

ZFS for use as an operating system Flesystem is NEVER going to happen.

[Master Disaster]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

People that use anything other than exFAT and NTFS for mass storage above 4GB genuinely worry me. Honestly kinda surprised this wasn't already a thing.

I use FAT32 on a fair few of my SD Cards for reasons I'd rather no get into.

[Sniperfox47]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

People that use anything other than exFAT and NTFS for mass storage above 4GB genuinely worry me. Honestly kinda surprised this wasn't already a thing.

Umm...

I use EXT4 a ton, including with Windows, because it's easier for my Linux systems and isn't patent encumbered.

I use ReFS with one of my systems because of it managing large data pools better than NTFS.

There's plenty of other options for large scale storage that are better than NTFS or exFAT.

 

 

[themctipers]

i do trust cloud storage, its just that I am poor ..

I can only afford asking my dad for his old used hard drives, and using those as my storage. 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Why I use OneDrive? *Seamless* integration between Office applications and OneDrive and because I was given two Business accounts (one for school and the other for an organization). The reason I put asterisks on the word "seamless" because it would've been fine if files synced properly instead of failing half of the time. The moment you have two PCs connected to the same OneDrive account, it's literally a game of Russian roulette when trying to save or upload anything from Windows Explorer.

[Denis Rakhmanov]

I'm using One drive. I want my cloud files to not take any space on my computer, so i disabled sync folders. Thats not a problem for me, but i can see that it's not a good move. And i actually would like to see Windows to support other file systems, like Linux does(BtrFS, ReiserFS, etc).

[suicidalfranco]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

ZFS for use as an operating system Flesystem is NEVER going to happen.

then: #(btrFS for root + ZFS for other drives)masterrace

[Denis Rakhmanov]

5 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

ZFS for use as an operating system Flesystem is NEVER going to happen.

Solaris OS uses ZFS as file system by default for many years already.

[Master Disaster]

9 minutes ago, Denis Rakhmanov said:

Solaris OS uses ZFS as file system by default for many years already.

Fair point, ZFS as the main filesystem on a mainstream operating system is never going to happen.

 

Also let's be clear, Solaris workstations don't use ZFS for root filesystem's either. ZFS is used on storage pools, it would be more than useless as the main FS for an OS.

[Ryujin2003]

I use OneDrive to sync my schoolwork. Laptop in class, desktop at home. I dont out personal things in cloud storage.

 

The change really doesn't bother me. My USBs are all NTFS and so are my externals. No big deal. But even so, OneDrive is on my main drive that Windows is installed on, and is there for defaulted to NTFS anyways.

 

BitLocker can work on various formats, so I would have originally assumed that one drive would work on any format that BitLocker would default to... Otherwise, I'm not too sure about the change. The story looks great, but I don't think that this applies to the majority or use cases.

[flibberdipper]

9 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Umm...

I use EXT4 a ton, including with Windows, because it's easier for my Linux systems and isn't patent encumbered.

I use ReFS with one of my systems because of it managing large data pools better than NTFS.

There's plenty of other options for large scale storage that are better than NTFS or exFAT.

 

 

I kinda forget EXT4 works with Windows at all. Though that said I meant for just general use and not overall, so I guess I coulda clarified that a bit better.

 

9 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

I use FAT32 on a fair few of my SD Cards for reasons I'd rather no get into.

inb4 camera is a grade a retard and only works with FAT32 (tho at least its not FAT16).

[Sniperfox47]

12 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

inb4 camera is a grade a retard and only works with FAT32 (tho at least its not FAT16).

Retard? How so? Both exFAT and NTFS are patent incumbered under patents owned by Microsoft. There's a reason why most cheaper android devices don't support exFAT, the licenses for it aren't cheap...

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Retard? How so? Both exFAT and NTFS are patent incumbered under patents owned by Microsoft. There's a reason why most cheaper android devices don't support exFAT, the licenses for it aren't cheap...

ono look useless information about exFAT I couldn't be bothered to look up nor care about  

[arnavvr]

I use Google Drive for school stuff mostly ( I have a student account through my school) Rest of my stuff is stored on External HDD's

[Doobeedoo]

Well that was funny and odd when I saw that error. Makes no sense to limit it to just that. But oh well.

[mrchow19910319]

On 07/07/2017 at 2:02 AM, Jito463 said:

11TB of storage on my computer

Holy moly. How much of it you've already filled up? 

[mrchow19910319]

On 07/07/2017 at 2:09 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Why I use OneDrive? *Seamless* integration between Office applications and OneDrive and because I was given two Business accounts (one for school and the other for an organization). The reason I put asterisks on the word "seamless" because it would've been fine if files synced properly instead of failing half of the time. The moment you have two PCs connected to the same OneDrive account, it's literally a game of Russian roulette when trying to save or upload anything from Windows Explorer.

I think google drive never failed me. 

Wait... one time it did crash when I install the macOS version of it..

[Jito463]

1 minute ago, mrchow19910319 said:

Holy moly. How much of it you've already filled up? 

Between my 5 drives (1 SSD, 4 HDD), I have ~2TB free.  What can I say, I'm a digital pack rat.

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Jito463 said:

Between my 5 drives (1 SSD, 4 HDD), I have ~2TB free.  What can I say, I'm a digital pack rat.

[mrchow19910319]

I use google drive to store some of the documents/paperworks I don't want to lose. 

I still think that icloud drive is a half baked solution. Its more like a "place to store iOS app settings" than a real cloud storage solution. 

 

Any huge files that I have (movies and tv series) I store it on my 4TB seagate external drive. 

All of my photos are stored at google photo. That shit is way too convenient to pass on. Unlimited storage FOR LIFE! 

[vorticalbox]

I have a windows phone so one drive just ends up being a temporary back up until I get pictures from my phone to my PC (zfs pool + nas back up). I use google drive for documents that I need to work on across multiple systems since though I use mega.nz and it's free 50GB storage for sharing larger files.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I've used SyncToy since like forever. I also use Dropbox mostly because of shared folders with other people who use it. I've tried cloud services at some point for the sake of convenience, but most of them are pretty horrible, and don't support much data in their free versions. Only MEGA has "passed the test" so far in terms of convenience and free storage limit, so that's the only form of cloud syncing I use by choice.