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200 GB OneDrive ending. Need advice on OneDrive / Office 365 choices.
Now that my free 200 GB OneDrive offer is ending I have to decide between base, 50GB, Office 365 Home or alternative sync storage. Any guidance would be appreciated.
I have desktop+laptop Windows computers. Same @live.com e-mail for all. Other local users for networking. Also Mac+iOS devices. Used OneDrive on Windows only so far. OneDrive setup to be used like DropBox sync with only root folder and no other folders shared. I almost never log into cloud OneDrive and am not familiar with it.
I currently have about 125 GB OneDrive used. Most space taken by music files that are there for convenience backup, but are also on local HDD+ NAS. Maybe 30 GB of that are the other files (.exe, .pdf, .txt, etc.).
I am a casual Libre Office on Windows / Excel on iOS user. Although a long time ago a heavier Office 2010 user.
Spent time researching and asking Microsoft support tech to get more detailed info. I can't decide between the options I know or something I'm not aware of yet.
I do not really need/want a full TB of OneDrive, but it would be a nice upper limit. I only looked at Office 365 Home as an option due to associated free OneDrive space. Office would be a useful, but not critical addition. My Mac has only a 256 GB SSD. It seems that all of the Windows OnDrive files would sync to the Mac which would not work.
Options could be :
a) . Get Office 365 Home. Get one user e-mail for the Apple & Window networking users that would be a small size OneDrive. A second user e-mail for my main user on all my Windows machines. This choice would give me all the flexible storage I'd ever need. Easy inter-os transfer. The Office apps would be a good bonus. Cost ~$100/year and more complexity.
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b) . Stay with base 5GB OneDrive and add 50 GB iCloud. Would be very simple to use and maintain. Also easy inter-os transfer. Cost: $24/year, no Office and never enough space for optional music files.
c) 3rd option I am not aware of.
I'm currently leaning towards option b) due to simplicity and cost, but would appreciate other's opinions before deciding.
Thanks
Rick