can you point out where is the "unlimited storage"? I see 5TB max. maybe I did not find the correct plan.
Hi, this is incorrect. Microsoft does not provide unlimited storage. It is unlimited if you buy more users. There is a footnote in their comparisons of plans: modern-work-plan-comparison-enterprise-01-08-23.pdf
Microsoft will provide up to 5 TB of initial OneDrive storage per user based on the default quota for the tenant. Additional storage can be requested by contacting Microsoft support. Subscriptions for fewer than five users received 1 TB of OneDrive storage that cannot be expanded. Storage allocations in Education tenants may be limited.
Refer to the Office 365 Education service description for details.
That's the one I looked at as well. E5 developer account comes with 25 licences so you can qualify for 25tb SharePoint sites. Currently I am on 7tb with the SharePoint site I created to copy the data.
You can get 5TB per user's onedrive. After that you need to contact support to ask them to up it to 25TB, and then after you reach that limit they provide 25TB SharePoint sites from then on. Their support is unlikely to furnish the 25TB limit or the extra SharePoint sites for a developer account. The license specifically says it is a developer account so they will know. I haven't tried contact support before with a dev license, so it is just a guess that they will say no. I have tried using the 25 dev licenses to setup 25 5TB onedrives, then unioned them together with rclone (along with crypt in place) and that worked okay. I guess technically you could then signup for additional dev accounts, which would give you 125TB at a time, again unioning all the 5TB accounts together. What does not work so great is onedrive/SharePoint's aggressive and unpredictable throttling. From what I could tell the rclone API activity was enough to auto-renew the dev account every 90 days. Who knows how long it would take Microsoft to catch-on to 125TB dev accounts, or multiple of them being used from one IP...
Read your message. Very interesting. The idea of deduping stuff to reduce storage needed is neat. I would love to see it. Bitcasa, years ago, tried something similar. But it was very centralized and then they folded... prompting me to move to Google Drive. And here we are now, nine years later. 
Will iDrive e2 / S3 work with rclone as easy as with gdrive or dropbox?
much better IMO as it is using proper S3 API. S3 is pretty much industry standard for cloud storage. gdrive and dropbox are very cumbersome compared to it.
There are many other programs available supporting S3. Rclone is one of the many.
The easiest is to try - you can get 10GB free for testing. This is what I am doing now - so far I am happy with all tests.
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How long after stopping the payment will google delete the files?
I've read 60 days
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I've given up on Sia, far too complicated for anyone looking for simple storage to setup. There are also some things that just don't work, yet.
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I'm just continuing to pay google full price, and they've said they'll keep the files forever. I can't make uploads, but at least my past uploads remain safe while I consider alternatives.
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Google has beem "saying" a lot of stuff that in the end turned out not to be true, or none of us would be posting here in this thread.
If your data is important for you, I don't recommend trusting them any farther than you can throw them.
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I had Dropbox account 3 years ago and i uploaded ~300TB of data in 3 months and stopped subscription in favor of GSuite. Guess what ? Even i haven't been paying anything to Dropbox for 3 years files are still there. I can rclone and download them, just can't upload anything. I don't think Google will delete your files if there's nothing illegal. Deleting files and limiting storage are two very different things in terms of laws.
This is also my case, I have 55TB on Dropbox with a free account. As previously I had a bigger space, but I got removed. I can access and also delete files, but I cannot upload new files.
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I don't think Google is specially worried about "the law", as it is already breaking it a dozen ways from Sunday (bait-and-switch is definitely against the law).
And I don't think it's logical to conclude that Google won't ever delete your data based on the fact that Dropbox hasn't done it after 3 years: they are two distinct companies and Dropbox has been handling this "unlimited fallout" issue much better than Google (ie, by slowing grants of additional space, rather them imposing limits much lower than the data you already have stored and setting a deadline for turning your whole storage read-only).
But hey, it's your data after all -- the fact that I don't trust Google (nor Dropbox, by the way) to keep terabytes of my data up forever without payment, doesn't mean you can't -- if you think you should, more power to you, I say. Just don't be surprised when one beautiful sunny day you wake up and realize it's all gone.
So even Dropbox eventually removes data. Take care, folks -- and just don't expect to anyone to keep your data forever without payment.
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I just mean Google can't delete your files if you have 5+ users and keep paying and there's nothing illegal. Because it's still officially "unlimited". I gave the Dropbox example because they don't even delete your files even if you don't pay. Even one file worth of million dollars deleted by Google will give them enough headache in court if the owner files a lawsuit. it's not as simple as limiting storage space. Even if you don't pay deleting files is not something they'll even try imho. And please don't say (not saying to you directly) if you have a file that worthy don't keep it in cloud bla bla. It's just an example to show the different consequences between deleting files and limiting storage space. For alneven's case he himself got removed not files as i understand.
Even if you don't pay deleting files is not something they'll even try imho.
Thanks for the clarification, seems you and I agree on disagreeing on that 
Yeah, that is clear
There’s no such thing as a free lunch
@lordoftherings yes, correct
I got removed 2 times
All my files were still there and all my API keys
I had rclone mount all the time running, remount the share was also possible
They actually can.
And we all know how ambigous their definition unlimited is so...
I wouldn't take for granted that they will keep they files even if you have 5 licenses.
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