Has Anyone’s iDisk Been Upgraded To 2TB?

Leander Kahney ()

2TB_idisk

On Monday, reader Abram Siegel’s iDisk showed 2TB of available storage. Yeah, that’s right — terabytes. The default iDisk storage is 20 gigabytes.

Siegel’s iDisk said 2TB when  logged on this morning and is still saying 2TB this evening. “Still showing,” he says. “Very strange.”

Even stranger, a few other people on MacRumors forums have also experienced the mystery 2TB upgrade.

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Is it a common glitch, or is Apple upgrading accounts? Anyone else’s iDisk showing 2TB?

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • John W

    Still showing 20GB iDisk…

  • http://www.chrisburke.ca Chris Burke

    not me.. though it would be awesome if it was…

  • Will S.

    The default storage is 20GB, not 10GB. And I am not currently experiencing these issues at the moment.

    • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

      thanks, fixed it.

  • http://www.grinningidiot.com JAYnLA

    Nope. Still the 14 gigs I always have.

  • Alan Williams

    Nope…12Gb available :(

  • Prasad

    Nope, looks like I’ve got 10 gigs in all.

  • sambo

    nope, the same 20gigs as usual.

  • http://www.fatherlyrants.com Mac Daddy

    Mine is still showing 20GB. But I’d love 2TB…

  • Mark Rich

    Assume it has 2TB. How could I keep a local copy on my HD as I presently do?

  • Scott

    At my current iDisk upload speeds, it would probably take over a year to fill a 2TB drive…

  • cliff

    nope. still at 20 gb.

  • http://marketingwizdom.com Robert Clay

    Hmmm. Interesting! My iDisk is still 20GB. But if they are being upgraded to 2TB my guess is that Apple could be coming up with a “time machine” for backing up over the web. That would certainly get a big thumbs up from me … and would make life a lot easier for a lot of other people too, giving a level of peace of mind that if all was lost, it would be recoverable again.

  • Ammadz

    Mine is showing usual 20gigs.. :) would be nice though.. hehe

  • http://thewillseys.us/scott/blog Scott

    2 TB seems excessive, but then again, 20 GB is rapidly filled up if used the way Apple seems to think people will use it (for syncing personal files across Macs, for photo albums and video, etc).

    I hope they do upgrade it to at least 500 GB, but I’m doubtful.

  • http://nnutter.com Nathan Nutter

    @Mark Rich: Simple, if it’s full you can’t. If it’s not full it doesn’t take up 2TB.

  • http://www.zeusboxstudio.com ncus

    Still 20GB, I wish i had 20TB :-) I will copy all my 500GB backup to iDisk.

  • http://qtp.blogspot.com SD

    mine is still 10 gb..it might be some technical glitch…..

  • Geek Shui Living

    I experienced the same thing last week. As with the screenshot above, I saw “2TB” in the iDisk view. When I checked in System Settings, as well as the web-based interface, the maximum still reflected as “20GB”. While it would be pretty cool in theory to get a free upgrade, I share the opinion of a previous commenter. How am I going to have it sync in full and maintain a local copy on my iMac?

  • wfraser

    Leander. Fixed what?

  • http://www.seewhatsinmybrain.com/blog Michael Natale

    Its probably just displaying the wrong amount. There’s lots of scenarios (depending on what they are using on the back end) where the total size is displayed in a misleading way.

    It may be for example that they have volumes carved out in 2TB increments, and user’s storage buckets are kept inside those volumes. So what you are probably seeing is the total size of the volume, not your specific space allocation (which is really controlled invisibly on the back end by software).

    This happens all the time with NAS and FC storage, depending on the configuration and how the OS interprets what it “sees”.

  • kjk

    To clarify, we get 20G total of iDisk/Mail storage. If you only see 10G of iDisk space, it means you have the default 10G/10G set in your preferences. I’m guessing most people have given only minor space to Mail, and most to iDisk?

  • http://flet.ch fletch

    Hmm. There have been some rumors that iTunes 9 will have cloud storage. A bump in iDisk size seems like a logical component of that feature. (Subscribe to Mobile Me, store your media in the cloud, get web-based access from anywhere!) Here’s hoping.

  • Scabby

    Sadly, this is one screw up that has not found me.

  • Santiago

    Maybe the Data Center was for this?

  • Hardenstuhl

    I checked and it said 20 gigabytes. That seems to good to be true.