Office 365 users can expand OneDrive storage up to 2TB

Consumers with an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription can now take up to 2TB OneDrive storage space. Previously, the maximum was 1TB. It is possible to expand the storage space in steps of 200GB for a fee.

OneDrive CEO Omar Shahine show in a tweet that Office 365 users can now increase their OneDrive storage space. By default, users with a Home or Personal subscription get 1TB of space, but that can now be increased in steps from 200GB to a maximum of 2TB. Each step costs two euros extra per month, so that 1TB of extra storage costs ten euros extra per month.

The extra storage is only available to consumers with an Office 365 subscription. A separate OneDrive subscription is only available as a free variant with 5GB storage space or as a paid variant with 100GB storage space. That variant costs 2 euros per month, but the storage cannot be expanded.

An Office 365 Personal subscription costs 7 euros per month or 69 euros for a whole year. In addition to the 1TB storage space, such a subscription gives access to Office programs and sixty calling minutes for Skype. The Home variant for up to six users costs 10 euros per month or 99 euros per year.

A Personal subscription with 2TB of OneDrive space therefore costs 17 euros per month, the same Home subscription costs 20 euros per month. Users can adjust the extra storage space up or down per month.

Microsoft isn’t the first company to offer 2TB storage to customers; Apple and Google do the same, for example. At Apple and at Google this costs 10 euros extra per month. At Google it is also possible to buy more storage space, up to 30TB for 300 euros per month.