With a 5GB Microsoft account of free storage (down from 15GB free in 2015), with 50GB for $ 2 / month. Many Office 365 subscription levels have 1TB (1,024GB) of OneDrive storage for free, as long as you’re Office 365 subscriber. (Back in 2015, Office 365 subscriptions had unlimited storage, but Microsoft keep changing the offers.). Beyond 1 TB, to unlimited 1 TB per user for subscriptions with fewer than 5 users. For subscriptions with 5 or more users (can be any combination of qualifying plans), Microsoft will initially provide 1 TB per user, which admins can increase to up to 5 TB per user. (To learn how, see Set the default storage space for OneDrive users.).
Part 1. How to Get More Free OneDrive Storage
As mentioned earlier, when you sign up for OneDrive, 15 GB will be offered to you and this can be increased in many ways. For instance, Microsoft might provide you with some free space when you subscribe or download one of their products or services, or simply by utilizing the features of OneDrive. Once you build up free OneDrive space you might end up with roughly 1285 GB of storage space. Below are some methods with illustrations that can guide you towards availing more free OneDrive space.
1. Free Space for Being Loyal
Onedrive Free Storage
Lately, increased storage space is offered by Microsoft ‘OneDrive’s free plan, earlier it was 7 GB and now it's 15 GB. However, the users who have been subscribed to OneDrive since the time it was called Windows Live SkyDrive, already possess 25GB of free space in their accounts. And while the conversion of their brand name took place the free space also reduced to just 15 GB along with some other alterations in their features. However, Microsoft rewarded its old-time users with 10 GB Loyalty bonus. Adding both the offered and the bonus space, it again sums up to 25 GB, so basically nothing was there to lose. You can check this in your additional storage in your account settings as shown.
2. Office 365 Subscription
This is quite a great deal. All you need to do is to subscribe to Microsoft's Office 365, and you will be allotted an entire terabyte of free OneDrive space. That is exactly 1024 GB which instantly adds up to your OneDrive. This can be checked where you have your addition store option in settings as shown in the illustration below.
Onedrive Unlimited Storage Free
3. Surface bonus
Another effective way to get more OneDrive space is through a surface bonus. Whenever any Microsoft Surface device is purchased by you, you become eligible to receive 200 GB of free OneDrive space, for 2 years. For Surface's value/price ratio this would be a nice addition.
Onedrive Unlimited Photo Storage
A very important thing to keep in mind while availing the surface bonus is that even if you buy more than one device, Surface devices will not add space to your OneDrive account, but rather increase the time you own that space. For example, in simple words, owning two Surfaces will not offer you 400 GB for 2 years, but rather provide 200 GB for 4 years.
4. Enthusiast bonus
This bonus is quite flexible and you can receive this for performing multiple things. For instance, you can receive this free OneDrive space if you own or buy a Windows phone, you sign up for Microsoft services or products, registered as a beta tester for Microsoft Office or even if you sign up for the program of Bing Rewards. Apart from this, Microsoft also keeps conducting time-limited campaigns for the OneDrive users and in return, they offer free storage space. You can follow their Blog to make sure you’ll not miss the next campaign. The OneDrive Blog
5. OneDrive Referral bonus
This method is relatively common and quite popular. Microsoft being really generous offer 500MB of free OneDrive space for every person you refer it could be your friend, family or colleague. The maximum number of references can be 10 people who sign up and starts using OneDrive.Which indicates that you can avail a maximum of 5 GB additional free OneDrive space to save your files.
You can get your referral link and even share it on the social networking websites. To do this, on your OneDrive storage page simply click 'Get free storage'. Please refer to the figure below.
Now by choosing a social network like Facebook, twitter and more post the invitation link as shown below, therefore, for each friend who sign-up for OneDriveby your reference or by clicking the link you posted, both you and your friend will be rewarded an extra 0.5 GB of free OneDrive space.
6. Camera roll bonus
In this, if you make a selection of auto backup for your account which enables transferring of photos directly to the OneDrive this will allow you with more free space. This quantity also depends on their current promotion plans. Normally, this would provide you 3 Gigabytes of add-on storage which might fluctuate and you can get a little more or less.