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Microsoft Office 365 Home: 6 Users, 1 Year (Digital Delivery) - $86.40 Delivered @ Bing Lee eBay

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Microsoft Office 365 Home: 6 Users, 1 Year (Digital Delivery) - $86.40 Delivered @ Bing Lee eBay
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6TB Cloud Storage Hack + O365

Works out to be $7.20 a month for 6TB storage*

How to get 6TB - the manageable way:

1) Create 6x O365 accounts (i.e. "[email protected]")
2) Apply the activation card to one account
3) Share this with all other accounts from your main account
4) In each subsequent account, create a folder and share it with your main account
5) Sync OneDrive with your main account
6) You will have 6 folders, all that have 1TB space accessible from 1 account

This will allow you to have 6TB cloud storage without having to sign in/out of each account as the folders are shared to the main account. With 8TB HDDs being dirt cheap it makes it an easy way to back up your entire collection.

Way cheaper than getting OneDrive for Business (5x$13/month) or G Suite for Business (5x$10/month). Admittedly they are unlimited, however, for the average user that needs more than 2TB but less than unlimited this is a good deal.

If you have more than 6TB and are really frugal, you can just purchase another card and do the process again (12TB for $14/month - still waaay cheaper than the alternatives).

PS: I'm doing it and it works flawlessly. For the price, the minimal hassle of getting it set up was worth it.

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  • FIVEDOLLAR on 08/10/2018 - 21:39
    +1

    Ha, according to my upload speed… A whopping generous 0.80Mbps. It will take me. About a good one year continual activity (370~ days) to upload 3TB.
    Excellent.

    • jv on 08/10/2018 - 21:41
      +28

      Your own fault… You should have done it before you got NBN…

      • FIVEDOLLAR on 08/10/2018 - 21:43

        Well, the last time I checked. It said estimated July 2018.

      • WhyAmICommenting on 08/10/2018 - 23:48

        @jv - this needs more upvotes

    • lostn on 09/10/2018 - 08:15

      Yeah before I got NBN, Cloud storage was impractical in this country.

      Now it's useable though you better keep your PC on for a while.

  • jv on 08/10/2018 - 21:55

    For Home, starting October 2nd, that updates to six users, across all your devices and each user can be signed into five devices at the same time. Technically, that means an Office 365 Home customer could have 30 Home subscriptions running at the same time, with each user getting five signed-in devices.

    Wow !!!

    • [Deactivated] on 08/10/2018 - 21:58

      The caveat is that the other 4 devices will have full access to your OneDrive. If you don't use OneDrive then yea, share away!

      • jv on 08/10/2018 - 22:00

        each of the 6 users will have their own OneDrive.

        • [Deactivated] on 08/10/2018 - 22:30

          Yes - that was in reference to the 30 devices, rather than accounts.

  • maddoglee on 08/10/2018 - 22:05

    How difficult is this to use this for next year when my subscription for this year runs out?

    • [Deactivated] on 08/10/2018 - 22:30

      Very easy ($129/yr thereafter, or you can just get another sale price). I've even heard you can add multiple activation cards, although you may want to DYOR about that one.

    • jv on 08/10/2018 - 22:52
      +8

      You can add it to your account now… Up to 5 years worth…

  • 2025 on 08/10/2018 - 22:32
    +3

    Nice tip about sharing the folders!

  • Indomietable on 08/10/2018 - 22:44
    -7

    Just be careful with onedrive - upload speed is very slow

    • pwrusr-com on 08/10/2018 - 23:13

      Seriously?! I thought the upload speed was dependent on your Internet service speed - care to share more details on that?

      • Indomietable on 09/10/2018 - 00:30
        +1

        My office have 10Gb uplink and my servers have 25Gb nic. Yes 10 Gigabit uplink.

        Max I could do with OneDrive is 126mbps and that's only for few minutes. Average upload speed is 25mbps.

        I can spin up ownCloud instances and with parallel uploads I can reach close to 5gbps. With iperf and jumbo frames I could easily saturated the whole 10gbps.

        • pwrusr-com on 09/10/2018 - 01:04
          +1

          That's great - perhaps I now get why from your perspective OD maybe considered "very slow" 'though you'll have to agree that the majority of people don't get 25Mbps Up.

          As a personal experience, at one stage I did ~30GBs upload to OD and it took about three or four hours (from the office, ~40Mbps Upload at the time), so (imho) "not bad at all".

          As always - "it depends" & "to each their own".

          • Indomietable on 09/10/2018 - 06:38
            +1

            @pwrusr-com: Forgot to mentioned that OneDrive also the slowest out of all popular file sync services ( Dropbox, Google Drive, Box ) and the most problematic when it came to large number of files.

            I think this an architectural issue since OneDrive for Business is built with SharePoint backend. Sharepoint is a complex pile of poo thsts not easily tweaked.

            One thing I like is OneDrive development phase. By looking at uservoice page, Microsoft seems to listened to their customers. Unfortunately any MS hasn't done much to alleviate complaints regarding speed

    • muncan on 08/10/2018 - 23:17

      Why not get six?

    • Nsane Guy on 08/10/2018 - 23:19
      +3

      I uploaded around 500gb in around 40 hours to my onedrive, on FTTN 100/40. Highly dependent on your connection

      • pwrusr-com on 08/10/2018 - 23:25
        +2

        nice - I just uploaded ~18MBs of pictures in a couple of minutes (over slow & crappy adsl) to OneDrive :)

  • hasher22 on 08/10/2018 - 23:07
    +1

    I have office 2016 as a once off fee, is it better to change to office 365?

    • badmedicine on 08/10/2018 - 23:25
      +2

      It really depends whether you want the online storage or not

    • jlogic on 09/10/2018 - 01:42
      +2

      I switched when I ended up with kids. Now everyone has office regardless of device and Onedrive has been a god send when needing to share files with anyone.

      Also helps when everyone is on the same platform especially with the calendaring.

      Worth every penny especially if you pick it up on special.

    • lostn on 09/10/2018 - 08:23
      +1

      If you don't need the Onedrive, keep what you already paid for.

  • BertieBrown on 08/10/2018 - 23:24
    +1

    Depending on your Uni, you may be able to get access to Office 365 for free, using your login details. For instance, UNISA offers this, however I am uncertain of other Uni’s. No doubt many of you are aware of this, but thought I’d say just in case.

    • badmedicine on 08/10/2018 - 23:27
      +1

      You may also be able to get a free Windows 10 license through your university - something I only discovered in my last week of being a student ;)

      • BertieBrown on 08/10/2018 - 23:30

        Well, that I didn’t know either. Thanks for the info :)

      • Hornpub on 09/10/2018 - 11:36

        same here, the education version, which is second last powerful version of windows.

    • realfancyman on 09/10/2018 - 00:44

      I actually get Office 365 from both my school and TAFE SA due to the VET I'm doing. Plus since I'm an IT student I get access to Microsoft Imagine Premium which gives access to a LOT of Microsoft software.

      • BertieBrown on 09/10/2018 - 00:49

        Wow, that’s a pretty decent set up. I mean people pay enough for TAFE and Uni that they ought to include these things, but still, sounds like your set up well and truly.

        • realfancyman on 09/10/2018 - 00:51

          Your damn right, since I'm still in school I'm not eligible for government funding and have to pay the whole thing myself. Would be free otherwise

        • [Deactivated] on 09/10/2018 - 06:56

          It's actually in Microsoft's interest to give it away for free.

          I would never have used OneDrive if it wasn't for my institution providing it for free. (Previously had Dropbox). Now I'm a paying customer for forseeable future.

          However, I didn't want all my cloud storage being tied to my employer (not to mention they have access to your files).

  • 4agte on 08/10/2018 - 23:39

    A suitable option for some people is using Office online for free

  • Huntz on 08/10/2018 - 23:43

    Don't forget 60 Skype minutes per month :)

  • [Deactivated] on 09/10/2018 - 07:09

    My sync isn't abysmal. Its 6am and it's already done:

    09-10-2018 53.74 GB

  • lostn on 09/10/2018 - 08:13
    +1

    Make it 1 user, 6 years and you got a deal.

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