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I get a free install of MS Office (including Access) as a part of my job (college).
Even with that, I buy the MS office 365 family annual edition ($99 list, but often discounted).
Why? Because while my office 365 (including download and install on 4-5 devices) includes 1 TB Onedrive (my school account), I still value the up to six "Family" members who can each get an additional 1TB of Onedrive.
I the 1 TB Onedrive and the 1 TB Onedrive (school) on my main login to keep the many many work related and personal files - and they are easily available across all of my devices.
For backup (not to be confused with what OneDrive's purpose is), I set up additional Windows users - and give them each one of the other five MS office 365 home accounts. On my system, I use nightly incremental backup (encrypted) to a drive which is then mirrored to their respective Onedrive accounts.
So, I use three of my 6 accounts - one for normal mirroring, and two to mirror encrypted backup datasets.
The only downside is that MS doesn't let a single windows logon have multiple personal onedrives, so I simply have those extra two logins running on the same system (and they do their mirroring at night when I am sleeping and not using the system).
Thus, for under $100 a year I have up to 6 TB of cloud storage which I can use for mirroring and also for backup.
ETA: OH YES, since I can "get by" with 3 TB of cloud, I give family members the extra accounts (so they have office and Onedrive too).
Even with that, I buy the MS office 365 family annual edition ($99 list, but often discounted).
Why? Because while my office 365 (including download and install on 4-5 devices) includes 1 TB Onedrive (my school account), I still value the up to six "Family" members who can each get an additional 1TB of Onedrive.
I the 1 TB Onedrive and the 1 TB Onedrive (school) on my main login to keep the many many work related and personal files - and they are easily available across all of my devices.
For backup (not to be confused with what OneDrive's purpose is), I set up additional Windows users - and give them each one of the other five MS office 365 home accounts. On my system, I use nightly incremental backup (encrypted) to a drive which is then mirrored to their respective Onedrive accounts.
So, I use three of my 6 accounts - one for normal mirroring, and two to mirror encrypted backup datasets.
The only downside is that MS doesn't let a single windows logon have multiple personal onedrives, so I simply have those extra two logins running on the same system (and they do their mirroring at night when I am sleeping and not using the system).
Thus, for under $100 a year I have up to 6 TB of cloud storage which I can use for mirroring and also for backup.
ETA: OH YES, since I can "get by" with 3 TB of cloud, I give family members the extra accounts (so they have office and Onedrive too).