Not too long ago, Microsoft sprinkled with storage capacity. As a user, you could easily rake together 15 GB. But now the company is coming back and taking another 10 GB from you. What now?
We can imagine that this will fall on your roof if you make heavy use of OneDrive, after all, you lose a big chunk of your storage capacity. Fortunately, there are ways to expand Microsoft's storage capacity again. Also read: Optimize your OneDrive in 3 steps.
Invite friends
Each OneDrive account has a specific (and personal) Referral link. When you send that link to friends, family or anyone else and the person in question takes out a OneDrive account through your link, you get 500MB for free. You can score as much as 10 GB for free this way, coincidentally exactly the amount that Microsoft has taken from you. You have to get 20 friends willing of course. You can find your personal link in OneDrive by clicking on the gear icon and to Options then / Manage Storage to go.
Pay
Well, it's not ideal, but of course you can always choose to just pay for the extra storage capacity. You don't pay a record price for that, by the way. With OneDrive you get 50 GB storage capacity for 2 euros per month. By the way, if you take out a subscription to Office 365, you get no less than 1 TB of storage capacity.
To the competitor
Don't want to refer and don't want to pay? Then of course you can always switch to a competitor. The only downside is that services like Dropbox give you 'only' 2GB for free. The best alternative at the moment is Google Drive, there you just get 15 GB for free as with OneDrive. The disadvantage is of course that you miss the integration of OneDrive with Windows.
