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Base Tenant Storage Issues
I am hoping that someone can help me.
I am very confused by the information contained within this article:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits
and what I am seeing in my tenant storage site:
- My main confusion surrounds this question: If all of the data on my SharePoint tenant is within “site collections”, and my site collection limit is 25TB, then what does the 1.68TB consist of? And why is it not scaling to accommodate my sites?
- Background
- I have 70 total licenses
- 66 M365 Business
- 3 E3
- 1 E5
I have been doing more research using the link you provided below detailing Sharepoint Storage and the number that I have come up with for my storage based upon my subscriptions is 12.5 exabytes. This is based upon the 25TB per site collection, and the 500,000 site collection per organization limit. This should theoretically give me 12.5 exabytes.
First, it can be a bit confusing. Those limits posted are the limits of a site collection, not the storage you actually receive. So a site collection can store upto 25TB, but it doesn't mean you have 25TB of data.
You have 70 total licenses- 66 M365 Business
- 3 E3
- 1 E5
You get 1TB pfor the organization
You get 700Gb (10gb x 70 licenses)
For a total of roughly 1.70tb, or in your case it's estimating about 1.68tb. So you have used up the total amount of storage that was allocated to you, based on the # of users you have in your tenant.
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First, it can be a bit confusing. Those limits posted are the limits of a site collection, not the storage you actually receive. So a site collection can store upto 25TB, but it doesn't mean you have 25TB of data.
You have 70 total licenses- 66 M365 Business
- 3 E3
- 1 E5
You get 1TB pfor the organization
You get 700Gb (10gb x 70 licenses)
For a total of roughly 1.70tb, or in your case it's estimating about 1.68tb. So you have used up the total amount of storage that was allocated to you, based on the # of users you have in your tenant.RE: "So a site collection can store upto 25TB, but it doesn't mean you have 25TB of data."
That.is.insane. That's like saying, yes you have X but no, you REALLY don't have X.
😞What is the point of each team/site SHOWING that it has 25TB of storage IF the overall quota is 1TB+license-allocation??
We moved to Teams so that we could enjoy the benefits of integral communication features that aren't available in Dropbox, while being able to include the pertinent files library within the various teams to which those files relate. We did NOT want to lose our storage capacity equivalent.kvaden357 It's not saying you have 'x'. Above the SC listing, it tells you have you have 'x' amount of available storage. Then it shows the limit of the Site Collection being 25TB. That's different than saying you have 25TB.
Thank you very much. I just got confirmation from Microsoft on this matter as well. It is very disappointing to find this out, but thank you for taking the time to read and respond.
