Microsoft Office 365 Storage Question

[aubryscully]

Hey guys, I am looking into paid cloud file storage solutions right now. I've found that the $100 per year home subscription of O365 gets you 1TB of OneDrive storage per user for up to 5 users. How does this work? Can I buy the subscription under 1 account, then make 4 other random MS accounts and somehow attach them to the one with the subscription, and then be able to upload 5TB of stuff from the main account? Or is it like 1TB of data for each user in their own separate OneDrives? I don't actually really need the O365 account as I already get Office free from school, but I guess it could be nice to have everything (Office suite along with files) under 1 account.

 

Also, anyone have thoughts about OneDrive vs Google Drive vs Dropbox vs whatever else there is? I currently use the free version of Google Drive to sync all of my documents in realtime between my main rig, my laptop, and my phone. This has been working pretty well except that I now need more space and would like the ability to store alot more stuff in the cloud. I'm not averse to buy the 1TB Dropbox or Google Drive plan, but if I can get 5x the storage and a similar user experience on OneDrive then I will definitely use that instead.

 

What are yalls thoughts on the matter? Thanks for the help

[kagarium]

Personally I'd go with Google Drive, but that's mainly because I use a Chromebook and Android phone. I do wish Google Drive had a better desktop app.

 

Also what in the world are you going to fill 5TB of cloud storage with??

Thats a lot of porn...

[DrMacintosh]

My fav cloud storage solution is iCloud Drive. 

 

File System style folder organization and control, FileExplorer integration, web portal, cheap af storage (5GB free, 50GB $1/month, 200GB $2.99/month, 2TB $10/month)

 

Downside is it really is meant to work between Mac, PC, and iOS, not Android. However since I do not own and Android anything that is not an issue for me. 

 

Its fast (limited by your internet connection only), doesn't require an internet connection to access whatever files you save locally in the iCloud folder, and the thing that seals the deal is how it works like a real file system. 

 

No BS, just folders and files:

 

[aubryscully]

19 minutes ago, kagarium said:

Personally I'd go with Google Drive, but that's mainly because I use a Chromebook and Android phone. I do wish Google Drive had a better desktop app.

 

Also what in the world are you going to fill 5TB of cloud storage with??

Thats a lot of porn...

Gotcha, that makes sense. I am a Windows 10 and iOS person myself though.

 

Gotta find some place to keep all of those 8k images of Linus ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, aubryscully said:

I am a Windows 10 and iOS person myself though.

Consider iCloud Drive. The interaction between Windows and iOS is solid now for iCloud Drive.  

[aubryscully]

16 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

My fav cloud storage solution is iCloud Drive. 

 

File System style folder organization and control, FileExplorer integration, web portal, cheap af storage (5GB free, 50GB $1/month, 200GB $2.99/month, 2TB $10/month)

 

Downside is it really is meant to work between Mac, PC, and iOS, not Android. However since I do not own and Android anything that is not an issue for me. 

 

Its fast (limited by your internet connection only), doesn't require an internet connection to access whatever files you save locally in the iCloud folder, and the thing that seals the deal is how it works like a real file system. 

 

No BS, just folders and files:

 

That does look pretty neat. Is there a way to have only SOME of the stuff on iCloud Drive be locally synced to your machine?

[DrMacintosh]

10 minutes ago, aubryscully said:

That does look pretty neat. Is there a way to have only SOME of the stuff on iCloud Drive be locally synced to your machine?

On iOS I know it will remove file downloads and you can to but I'm not sure about on desktops.