Can OneDrive storage be increased to 5TB?

OneDrive is the online cloud storage service offered by Microsoft company. It allows you backup your different data such as photos, videos, and different files and documents to its cloud server. With data storing on OneDrive Cloud, you can access them via the OneDrive web app, desktop app, and mobile app at any time.

Generally, as long as you register to a OneDrive account, you will get 5GB of free cloud storage space. However, 5GB of cloud space is insufficient for most users. OneDrive also allows you to increase your cloud storage space and provides users with different subscription plans from 1TB to 5 TB.

Can I get OneDrive 5TB free cloud storage?

Actually, although there are many methods on the Internet that claim to give you 5TB of OneDrive cloud storage space for free at a time, most of them are not feasible or safe. So far, although OneDrive provides some ways for users to get some extra space like inviting new users, it has not provided an official way to get 5TB of free space.

So, if you need 5TB OneDrive cloud storage space in one account, you can upgrade to OneDrive premium. However, if you just need more OneDrive backup space to protect more data, there is a trick that you can try to get OneDrive 5TB or more free backup space. If you happen to need this, please read on.

Since each OneDrive account offers 5GB of free cloud storage space, you can enjoy multiple, even countless 5GB of OneDrive storage space as long as you sign up for multiple OneDrive accounts. And then, you can use a third-party tool like CBackup to merge OneDrive accounts into one. In this way, you are equivalent to having a huge combined cloud.

CBackup is a professional cloud backup service that has a free and useful feature called combine cloud storage. This feature can help you combine cloud storage accounts owning to one or different brands of cloud storage services. After combining, you will have a huge backup space and you can backup as many files as you have to this combined cloud with CBackup.

Guide to get OneDrive 5TB storage for free with CBackup

CBackup supports OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive. If you need 5TB OneDrive cloud storage space, you just need to register multiple OneDrive accounts and combine them with CBackup:

Step 1. Download the CBackup desktop software from the CBackup official website. Install it on your Windows PC. It supports Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/XP.

Step 2. Run the CBackup app. You will see a New to CBackup? Create an account > link on the interface. Click this link and create your CBackup account on the web page.

Step 3. There are three tabs on the left of the software interface, click the Storage tab successively.

Step 4. Select the cloud drive you want to add and click Authorize Now. Follow the instructions to finish all the steps. After adding, all the accounts of cloud storage can be chosen as your backup destination.

Step 5. All the cloud storage accounts you added will be listed under the Storage tab. Next, click + Add Combine Cloud.

Step 6. A new window will pop up and you can tick the box next to the cloud storage account that you want to combine here. After checking, click on "Next".

Step 7. After that, you’ll have a Combined Cloud under the Storage tab. When you choose the backup destination, you can also choose this combined cloud to store all your files.

Bonus tip: how to get extra cloud storage in OneDrive for free

Although you can’t get 5TB cloud storage for free, you can get some extra OneDrive cloud storage for free by inviting new users. For every successful invitation, you will get 500MB of extra space. The upper limit is 10GB. Here are the steps:

Step 1. Go to the OneDrive website, sign in to your OneDrive account. On the main page, click the Manage storage tab.

Step 2. Then, find the Your additional storage section. Click the Earn more link. When a new window pops up, you can copy the link and send the link to your friends who have not registered a OneDrive account.

Final words

From the contents above, we can see that getting OneDrive 5TB free cloud storage account in an account is impossible. But, it is feasible to enjoy free 5TB cloud storage with the combine cloud storage feature of CBackup.

Besides cloud storage combination, CBackup also has many other wonderful services. For example, it supports cloud to cloud backup, cloud to cloud sync, PC to cloud backup and PC to third-party cloud storage backup, and so on. What’s more, CBackup offers a free version to you. You can not only enjoy all these features but also has 10GB of free CBackup Cloud space.