Sharepoint - purchase package for additional data

Question

Sharepoint comes with 1TB plus some data for each user in the Office subscription. It appears that adding a second terabyte to increase the Sharepoint data pool to 2 TB costs $0.20 USD per gigabyte per month. So, to add 1 TB is (1,000 GB x $.20) = $200 per month, or $2400 per year! That pricing is markedly out-of-step with the pricing for file sharing plans from DropBox, Google Workspace, and other competitors.

Is there a more cost-effective way to buy a chunk of additional data for Sharepoint, perhaps in 1 TB increments, rather than paying 20 cents per GB?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Dear Evan Nelson,

Good day!!

I understand your concern and would like to let you know that by default Office 365 organization will have 1 TB + 10 GB per eligible licensed user and the price additional storage can’t be changed by the moderators in this community, but you can try contact the Microsoft Billing team to see whether they can provide any better offer. Reference: Get support - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn

As a workaround, Microsoft provides 5TB storage for the user account based on the eligible plans and can increase the data to 25 TB per user OneDrive if the storage is reached 5 TB. So, you can create a common user account with eligible license and then share the content in the OneDrive for Business to other users in the organization for collaboration, though it doesn’t act as SharePoint Online site but it will act at least as a data storage and collaboration on the content.

References:

Set the default storage space for OneDrive users - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Change a specific user's OneDrive storage space - SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Apologize if my reply doesn’t satisfy or reach your expectation and hope you can understand.

Thanks for your patience and have a great weekend ahead!!

Best Regards,

Sophia

[Updated by Sophia on 1:04 PM, Thursday, May 30, 2024(UTC)]

Answer 2

Thank you.

Answer 3

Dear Evan,

Thanks for understanding and if you feel my reply helped to explain your situation, please click on the helpful button (Yes or No) in the reply.

In the future, if you have any further concerns related to Office 365, please feel free to post a new thread in this community and we will try our best to assist you.

Have a good day!!

Best Regards,

Sophia