
In my case I was long backing up my stuff to the cloud using Sugar Sync. If they don’t it’s a whole different story. Leo, your comments about OneDrive are well and good if a person “wants” to use it.
Microsoft 365 Family – Up to six users of Microsoft Office, each with their own terabyte of OneDrive storage, for a total of up to 6TB.Ĭurrent pricing is available on Microsoft’s Compare OneDrive Cloud Storage Pricing and Plans page. Microsoft 365 Personal – Single-user subscription to Microsoft Office, including all of the Microsoft Office tools, as well as 1 terabyte of OneDrive storage. This is simply more storage, paid monthly. OneDrive Standalone 100GB – Exactly what the name implies. Microsoft offers several different plans for home users (and more for businesses). This means you can store only up to 5GB of data - documents, images, videos, and so on - in the service, or use OneDrive to synchronize only up to 5GB of information across your devices. With OneDrive free, you get 5 gigabytes (GB) of storage.
While there are a variety of features available in the paid plans, the biggest differentiator with the free offering is space. Just visit and sign in with the same credentials. If you have a Microsoft account - meaning any account you can use to sign into, or an account you use to sign into your PC - you already have access.
OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, is indeed free. Just what is OneDrive? And what’s it good for? Check out Half a Dozen Uses for OneDrive.