Just had to reinstall windows 11 and found OneDrive is connecting to VMware workstation VM’s despite them being configured for no network or shared drives, in other words configured for isolation except cut and paste facilities/pipes between host and guests.
I personally turn off OneDrive and disable it on everything I have (VM’s and physical boxes alike).
It’s like a highly invasive virus that tries to sync everything and slows it all down in the process.
All of my systems run faster and are more stable as a result.
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I used it as extra storage, but ironically, the file’s I’d stored on it over the months are now no longer in my account after I reinstalled Win11 yesterday. Fortunately I had a backup on a spare external drive and github holds my code.
It can slow things up when the internet is slow, but providing its not uploading its reasonably quick.
I have Gigabyte Fiber (up and down) and my niece has 2 Gigabyte service.
It’s tolerable with those sort of speeds but even my niece noticed how much faster her machine was when she disabled it.
I use a multi-terabyte spinner for local backup of my solid state drive, a NAS because I’m paranoid and SpiderOakOne for live backup online on all my work VMs and machines.
Also I do use GitHub for both public and private repositories.
But I can still remember the first 5 MB hard drive I formatted.
It took TWO DAYS to do the low level Winchester format (before we ever got to DOS).
You had to boot on a floppy and switch to drive C because there was no BIOS with a boot from a C drive yet.
Then when we ran CHKDSK my brother and I looked at the amount free shown and wondered out loud what anyone would EVER do with that much space!
Now my routine space I allocate to a VM is 300 GB.
Times have definitely changed…