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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
There are two types of people - those who have lost data, and those who will. Abide to the 3-2-1 Backup Rule.

As a student with a similar setup, remember that cloud storage is just someone else’s computer under university management. They can just as easily deny you access to your account.
gpt
My cloud storage isn't... It's a server on oracle cloud (so it sort of is but isn't). Totally free with the free tier account (up to 200GB block storage and a few VMs), so I host a VPN on it, connect to the VPN and map the the storage with samba.

It's pretty easy to do and I've got ~110GB for nothing, that I control (I could have done the full 200GB block storage, but needed it for some other VMs). If you don't know how to use Linux, and the terminal, it's a little learning curve, but it's worth it.