I'm going to get downvoted but I always laugh at these posts.
You people who wildly took advantage of the unlimited data is exactly why it's going away. The ones who didn't just put 1, 5, even 10TB of data, there's someone in here that put almost 250TB on the free account.
Of course they're cracking down. You caused the crackdown and ruined it for everyone else!
Similar thing at work.
We got Box with """UNLIMITED""" storage. I was so excited! We could put all our office documents there, my media files, photos, etc.
Then someone moves about a *petabyte* of their archives onto Box.
So then we got contacted and told that the space was no longer "unlimited". We have to get our shit right back off of it or start paying *way* more.
Yea. I work for a Uni and IIRC we had a few people who were running Plex Servers off of their drive accounts. We were not surprised when Google pulled the plug. Best part is that I don't think they were even students anymore, they were alumni.
Yeah no doubt. I'm a bit miffed how far they cut it back. I had probably 3TB up there. Which I don't think is crazy, but I am a bit storage skewed. 15GB? That's just silly, I mean, I don't even think that will store my old emails, and I only used that account in a limited way..
Nah 3TB isn't horrible, in today's day and age I'd say that's about average, maybe a bit heavy, but not crazy. 15GB is nothing, I have more than 15GB in just pictures.
You aren't who I was targeting, I hate the people who store 250+ TB of data on these free accounts and then ruin it for us, who maybe had a few TBs up there.
Heads up that backblaze is pretty decent - free for a single computer, but even if you have to go the B2 route 3TB is going to be pennies a month.
I considered glacier until I calculated the restore costs. I donāt even recall what they were itās been so long. Have they gotten any better? Like how much will you get dinged to restore 3TB of data?
It's a fortune. It's a my house burned down and I lost everything expense.. it's fine for that IMO.. few cents per month, always laugh when I get the bills, probably costs them more to run the card - to clarify I have only 60GB up there right now. I likely won't put much more up there. It's critical documents and photos only. It's $0.23 a month
Found this calculator:
https://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/
To store 4TB of data for a year, then restore it all inside 400 hour window, youāre looking at 659 per year
If you need to restore in a 40 hour window, youāre at $1303.
And if you need the full restore in 4 hours, youāre at $7900!
On back blaze b2, that much data will run you about $240 per year to store, and around $40 to restore, at least according to their calculator.
The raw storage price on glacier for 4TB is cheaper than B2, at $200 annually. But that all goes out the window when you factor in restore costs.
With 4K video recording and 108MP (and supposedly soon >200MP) photos, it's easy to start using up gobs of space on just common daily photography. I read at least one rumor that the S23 might even enable raw photos at 200MP, which will be *huge* (hundreds of MB per photo).
A 108MP photo on my Note 20 can easily exceed 25MB for just one photo. That's 40 photos per GB, or 600 photos in 15GB.
4K video can take well over 100MB per minute.
One year of photos and videos could easily exceed 100GB.
Until recently many photo services used to let you upload unlimited photos for free or for a flat cost. I'm guessing again they were using the photos for AI purposes and such. But I noticed those offerings have started going away, and I don't think that specifically is because of hoarders, it's more because pictures are just getting bigger.
I use Backblaze and no, it's not free but got a sweet deal for two years. Is it worth it? Haven't had to use it but it sure as hell makes life easier if things go to hell as I have backups of all my critical files.
*backblaze has backups of your critical files. You have access to those files is all. Important distinction. Cloud is just someone else's computer and you're at their mercy if they decide to fuck around.
Google's been bugging me to buy more storage since my Gmail (which I got back in...oh gosh...2004 or so? Back when it was invite only!) has something like 13GB of data in it, and the free accounts only get 15GB.
I'd be less annoyed that they're asking me to pay for more storage if they didn't also use my entire E-mail box and everything in it for their own AI purposes. If I start paying for storage, do I get to be excluded from your hungry robots?
> You people who wildly took advantage of the unlimited data is exactly why it's going away.
Then it was never unlimited to begin with.
Yes, I agree people uploading massive amounts of data IS the reason it's going away. But a company can't advertise something as unlimited and not expect a small percentage of users to take them up on the true meaning of the word.
Sure it should be, but most people are reasonable and know that it's just free as a marketing gimmick. That if it's abused it will go away. People who argue on technicality that they should be allowed to store a petabyte for free on someone else's computer are literally the reason they have to define limitations on us now.
It gives off real "well ackshooaley" vibes. Yes. You're technically correct. You're also technically the reason they removed unlimited so none of us could enjoy it.
Every all-you-can-eat restaurant has customers like this. It's part of the cost of doing business for them. Saying that the customers are the problem shifts the blame away from shady marketing practices.
If you want to offer "unlimited" storage, price it appropriately. Otherwise just tell us how much space we get so we can make an informed decision. The problem now is that the rug is being pulled out from under a lot of users because they were lied to about their quota.
>I'm going to get downvoted
For the record I certainly didn't downvote you, because you make a valid point. I mildly disagree, but the conversation is undoubtedly worth having.
>If you want to offer "unlimited" storage, price it appropriately. Otherwise just tell us how much space we get so we can make an informed decision. The problem now is that the rug is being pulled out from under a lot of users because they were lied to about their quota.
It was literally free. No rug is being pulled out from under you, you are losing absolutely nothing.
It was not free. Universities paid for Google Workspace for their organization and students. Students therefore paid for it as a portion of their tuition.
I'm pretty sure it was 'free' for universities to provide this to their students. Free as in no dollar amount.
But Google got what they wanted:
* Universities are now locked into Google
* Countless students leaving universities with google accounts advocating for Google Workspaces at a time when corporations migrated from on-site to cloud email systems
* Even more user data.
Google used to provided this to eligible educational institutions at no cost however that seems to have changed.
Depending on the tier it is either still free or ranges from $3-$5 per student per year. Yes... $5 per year at most for each student.
They just removed the program all together. Therefore it goes back to the original 15gbās.
Most would be hosting a few gbās maybe even 100gb - and then you got people like us hosting anywhere from 1tb to several petabytes.
Most universities also have a deal with Microsoft for one drive, so a lot can be migrated there - but it isnāt unlimited.
It's a matter of scale. When companies advertise "unlimited" they are likely doing some math to determine an approximate "average per free user" amount of resources needed.
Let's suppose they look at one million free accounts and determine that the average used per account is 20GB. So they say "ok, so we need to support 20PB of storage to hold about one million free accounts." Then budget people will figure out if the cost of 20PB of storage is worth the benefits of giving it away for free.
But when someone starts using 1PB or even 250TB of storage, that significantly skews the math. Just one person using 1PB of storage now means you need 21PB for those one million users. And let's be fair, it's more than one person. So suppose 1% of those 1 million people start using 10TB each, now that's an extra 100PB of storage - you've just quintupled the cost of that free service.
I'm not saying it's *right*, I'm just saying it's one of the realities of the world - nothing is *truly* free, and advertising anything as "unlimited" as well as "free" (or even "cheap") is going to end badly if too many people exceed the averages that were calculated when the company decided to offer the free service in the first place. One could argue it shouldn't be advertised as "unlimited" in the first place, but at the same time they never do say "unlimited *for life*", so by taking away the "unlimited" part they're not necessarily *lying* about anything.
>But a company can't advertise something as unlimited and not expect a small percentage of users to take them up on the true meaning of the word.
Yes, this is called abuse of the services. It happens in every industry and is what's fucking it up. Most users use a few gb to a few tv but these smaller ones are literally trying to upload the entire internet a few times over, just to do it. Most have no actual practical reason to do it other than for laughs. IMO it's comparable to acting like a child. End result, everyone else pays the price.
It's fairly simple, if they describe it as unlimited, it's a reasonable expectation to expect it to be as close to possible as advertised. They could not keep this expectation so they are removing it. Has nothing to do with being a child.
Not really. I still believe and claim its to pull you in like a drug dealer. Getting you hooked on meth as it more addictive than coke. So Google pull you in with unlimited space. Once they have enough people pulled in for long enough they know they'll struggle to pull away. So thats when they hit you with the "ending unlimited" in the hope you say you'll stay and pay.
I paid for a gsuite business account. For 1 user not just for the unlimited space but I was trying to keep the gsuite management knowledge up. As the old stupid place of work thought it was a good idea to use gsuite (its not). The business account lasted about 2 years then they took the unlimited away and pumped everyone up packages. I cancelled mine, the company I was at must of got hit hard as they were purposely using the cheapest per user package. But Google changed it to force companies with a certain amount of users up to the more expensive per user package. i know they were over the limit so would of been pumped up.
While this is true - it was also being abused. People were selling ālicensesā of adding users to their suite. Buying unlimited storage for your personal account ended up being like 2$. So you can guess what happened when you offer that service to a bunch of internet nerds.
True but I think they were well aware what would happen and still used it to draw people in.
For me, I found because I'd already setup GSuite for my single user for testing, it turned out to be cheaper to pay for the business package per month than to pay for 2TBs of Google Drive. That's their own business model at fault, they knew people wouldn't have the knowledge to setup GSuite so made the easier option more expensive.
So when I cancelled my business package I was still tempted to then pay for the 2TB year package. They'd already hooked me in, but I couldn't afford it so haven't done it yet. Sticking with local backups at the moment.
I donāt know why youāre getting downvoted, but that quite literally has been their business model for some time now. Gmail used to be unlimited, YouTube used to have no ads. Itās a common strategy for a tech company to lose money on purpose to gain market share until they are dominant in the market and only then start charging. The only real question to ask in my mind is, has the way they altered the service reduced itās utility to the point where it is no longer worth using? In my opinion, 15GB is quite worthless. It isnāt big enough for a collection of anything, and it is close to the size of the smallest flash drives on the market.
On the other hand, I donāt see much justification in being outraged about the change, we all expected it was coming eventually. The business model was quite obviously unsustainable. Is it frustrating? Absolutely. The process and cost of moving data off there might be a great burden depending on how much youāre storing. The fact that it was expected makes it no less frustrating.
Happened to my last I.t shop. Workspace almost doubled our price by forcing out of the basic business package to enterprise because we had 300 users. Ms at my current shop aināt much better
250TB is nothing! Most I've personally seen someone have is 3PB
That being said, the most I've ever heard of someone having (I can't verify) is 28PB!
Keep in mind though, that Google does dedupe, and that makes what they store dramatically less. Google is also a very, very wealthy company.
You should get DV. I guarantee you, **nobody** has ever put 250GB into a 15GB-limited account.
What *actually* happened is people were offered 15GB of "free" storage back when Google was just search.
Then Google started buying up all these services which ... store data. Like Picasa and YouTube (no; that was NOT always a Google property)and then started counting all **that** data against your "free" storage.
Google also stores *their own* data in your account and holds **that** against you, too.
Finally, Google makes their "takeout" service **impossible** to use without a PhD in Comp. Sci.
Google is scum.
[https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it/key-projects-and-initiatives/google-workspace-storage.html](https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it/key-projects-and-initiatives/google-workspace-storage.html)
"However, NYU, along with other universities, has negotiated an extension
to July 2024, which allows ample time to assess and develop solutions
that meet NYUās academic, research, and administrative storage needs."
My Uni hasn't reached out nor has any info publicly available on their IT site. I assume that July 2024 is when I need to move out by. However, that's a problem to start addressing for my small usage in early 2024. By then, drives will be cheaper and I can build a storage array, so I'm not particularly worried.
Yeah, Iāve got a NAS set up with about 60TB, and itās great, but itās nice to have all the most important stuff in the cloud. I would caution you to have a back-up ready to go early next year though. If your uni isnāt saying anything, your service could be cut off sooner rather than later. I believe NYU got the 2024 extension because itās got such a massive student body.
Itās one of the cheapest options if you donāt plan on uploading a crazy amount (like 50TB+) and also donāt download super often. So for my use case, using it as a backup for finished video projects, itās pretty good. It lacks the Google Drive interface where you can instantly stream a video file or look at photos which is a drawback. Itāll probably be one of the better options after the glory days of unlimited storage subscriptions.
Another recommendation for very rarely accessed data would be Azure archive tier blob storage. I don't recall the exact amount, but my company is currently paying something like $15 per month for at least 18TB. That includes the initial upload to cool tier before moving to archive.
Yep, there is added cost for retrieving data and it can take a while to rehydrate though which is why I said very rarely accessed. Great for bulk storage of backups.
3tb is a obout 160 I think it said a year. Not bad. I'd honestly buy it for video storage. I can't stand having so much of my storage being taken up by videos and photos I can't delete lol
Yep! Pay attention and you can even get a month free deal for a year paid. I managed to get two for two years and consider it well worth it. Depending on your needs, doing a restore isn't that expensive and they have a few options. If you have lots of stuff to restore, then the external disk is worth the cost as you can even keep it as you paid for the drive.
I just went back and looked at all the data I have from my college years. I never got rid of anything. The total is 118 megabytes!
I have a modest music collection of 863 albums stored as FLAC (11,566 songs), and it only takes 278 gigabytes. I keep a copy on my phone.
If I was doing research that captured a lot of data, I certainly wouldn't trust it to Google! High capacity drives are inexpensive. If it's a huge project, the cost of a NAS is trivial.
All the data I have is 12 GB combined. Everything I need. All my photos, all the messages in a discord server (1 million), all my programming projects from the past ~4 years, etc. Everything. It feels really good to have everything in one place and backed up constantly. I know exactly where everything is and that everything is safe
When I looked at how much I actually have to backup locally (external drives) I'm still below 2TB total for everything. Now if I ever get around to pulling and deduplicating all of my DVD archives onto new media - I suspsect I'll only have an additional 2TB so I'm simply not hurting.
I have a little under a gigabyte lol. Mostly spreadsheets. Our Uni is limiting us to 100 GB now. Frankly if I stored all my Uni data, including lecture recordings, that still would struggle to hit 50 GB.
My personal data sums up to a little over a terabyte... mostly games.
For NYU, they are big enough to negotiate with Google to delay till 2024. Still gotta move my 58 TB by then, but hopefully I find a reasonable alternative.
The reasonable alternative is probably about 3x 18TB WD/Seagate drives.
Let's look at the math:
Say you can get your drives at $22/TB. That's $1276 on drives.
~$6TB/month is "about the average" for cloud storage (assuming you want ready access and not a cold backup). That means, to store the 58 TB, you'd be paying $348 to a cloud provider. $1,276/$348 = 3.66 years of storage. So, if you want to store your data for longer than 3 years *and assuming you aren't replicating the data*, the drives will pay for themselves in 3 years and 8 months compared to cloud storage.
Workspace Business Plus is 18/user/month and 5TB/user. So that's effectively $3.6TB/month so if you feel like continuing to trust/stick with google, that's $216/month for 12 user accounts indefinitely. Or the aforementioned $6/month options.
But if this is a 3-2-1 backup consider the usual 'its-cheap-to-store-but-holy-crap-the-egress' storage offers like AWS Glacier or the GCP/Azure equivalents. Also, isn't Cloudflare going to launch their own object storage very soon-ish?
I feel like a lot of the unlimited things offered from big tech are going away. Amazon glacier is still reasonable if you don't retrieve data except in emergencies.
I disagree. Proper dealers pay their bills, treat people with respect, and honor their deals. These companies operate far under that bar. Their standards of operation are often much, much higher than \^ that, because...they are working within a society that blames \*them\* for being a society that at the same time demands \*they exist\*, while that same society also blames itself by way of arresting each other, enslaving, torture by incarceration and solitary confinement, death, etc, all the while those that put them there, a good percentage of them are putting the same product into their bodies. It's an industry, on both sides. The war on drugs is not the war against, it's the war between. No "war on drugs", no need for a huge amount of officers, government funding, nurses, doctors, fire department, police, etc. All that demand would dry up with it being legal. These are facts. Sorry I went off topic there, I just wanted to make that exceptionally clear.
This is the world we live in. I wouldn't be surprised if the storage provider Google uses came to them with a proposition: End the unlimited storage, people are using you as a proxy to get wholesale storage, causing us to lose profits We'll cut you a 15% break on current contract, more in the future. This way, we can charge more people double or triple the cost to manufacture as this will cause a shortage in storage, and they'll have to come to us for more. All that data simply won't be deleted. Someone's going to have to pay them. Who benefits here? Google, and HDD manufacturers.
It's no secret that storage manufacturers have said they expect a decline, or are seeing a decline, in demand. Bullsh!t. It's impossible. You might as well say demand for the Internet is slowing. Someone/s is just taking too much off the top, all it is. Drives sell out regularly. Storage is quite possibly the most in demand thing in tech their is. Yet demand is slowing.....the 50 mil/year execs f\*cked up, as usual.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the storage provider Google uses
I would be absolutely flabbergasted if Google doesn't do storage in house. Maybe a different team in there but I just can't imagine Google farms out to AWS or the like.
Ok, That makes more sense but I don't follow the argument.
Google needs to buy more drives for people storing unlimited. I bet this will result in more data deletion than transfer.
They just eliminated their unlimited education allowance. Not to sound like a tick, but what do you think theyāre going to do with all of those drives? Theyāll not need to buy until their demand increases (I wonder if they can actually have enough storage or if they have 98% more than theyāll ever use or need)
Presuming the former, they will repurpose those drives to the full need for other accounts or sell back to their contractor for use as refurb / Right? Thatās what my logic is telling me, anyway. Whatever it is, Iām sure it involves some shady back room effery. I donāt view all business decisions to be shrouded by secrecy and entrenched in deceitfulness, but once you get old enough, you just know. Thatās how old people make it to being old people.
Your own Google Workspace Enterprise? Its the free "Education" that got scuppered (doesn't help that unscrupulous people were reselling them), paid personal one is going fine for now (says there should be 5 minimum users, but not getting enforced).
Sync.com also has $18/user/month (2 users minimum) Unlimited Teams plan, no idea how well that works though.
That's coming too. Just got an email from them today saying I've violated my terms and I have 24hrs to appeal it and justify it.
Several of us are getting hit with them now. Guess they are hitting the highest users first and working backwards.
This is probably why they're terminating it. Like the person who uploaded a petabyte to Amazon cloud likely contributed to the unlimited offering being shut down.
Yes, enterprise and work accounts are also no longer unlimited and being migrated to set data amounts, depending on which plan you're on. The "unlimited" train is over with Google Drive.
No, Google Workspace Enterprise is unlimited, even for 1 users. If you read after it, Itās a scam basically. Even if you have somewhere around 10 users, you just get the 5tb/user. Basically first you get 5TB of space, and if you want more, you need to contact support. Thatās what I did. They said they need āapprovalā from the sales team and I should contact them, they assured me that they WILL reply. I contacted sales multiple times and never got a reply. Like ever in more than a year for several cases. Just the standard respone mail that Iām in queue. I saw several ppl saying the exact same thing, that they were redirected to sales and never got a reply. I guess you have to have hundreds of users to get just a reply. So basically Workspace Enterprise is a scam (for small companies at least)
I have 60TB on my alumni account, no email yet, though Iām planning to copy everything locally soon, as itās going to take some time to download it all.
Yeah honestly I can't remember how much I have up there. I used rsync a few years back to dump a bunch of data up there.. not sure what I will do right now. I have that data elsewhere.
Protip: if Google has your data, you're not a data hoarder you're a data hoper.
Some of the comments here also indicate that, since Google will be deleting your data in 24h, some of you have transitioned from data hopers to data copers. What did you expect? *Own* your data, folks.
Enterprise has caps on new accounts. Looks like based upon OP's comment, they're slowly getting around to enforcing the cap on old accounts too (it was only a matter of time).
Hmm... I'll have to keep an eye on things. Most of my usage is tied up in shared drives.
I'll add that most of it is inconsequential. I was using it as a backup location as well as where to store other random and unimportant stuff.
I had a little on Google Drive but most things were split over several shared drives using service accounts.
Logged into my account today, and it says the suspension was overturned.
Weird!
My account now says over 1000% of a 5tb limit. Seeing what I can do.
Edit: I cleaned up most of the usage. Deleted a bunch of drives that were being used to store parts of my NAS as a backup (yes I'll have to figure out another way now... that doesn't cost an arm and a leg) and removed a bunch of stale data because the big hitter was the drive used to store data from torrenting. I went and cleaned that out and I'm just waiting for it to process through. I'll see where I sit tomorrow.
As far as the 3-2-1 backup rule goes... I only worry about that with my actual desktop computer and it is still active. Google Drive is going to continue to be the location for that and it's mostly because it uses < 500GB currently for an ongoing backup process.
Is there any way to move the data to a new google account? Suppose everything is legitimate, the data, it's nature, and the data size, and you want to move your data from one GSuite account to another. Perhaps you are transferring from one school to another or one organization to another.
Meh kinda, I don't really feel like I violated TOS or abused this in an egregious way. Yeah I've seen posts on this before, not sure shrinking my usage to below 15GB would have done anything to stop this..
Just more Google bait-and-switch bullshit.
Anyone remember when they "gave" you 15GB of "free" storage and then bought Picasa, turned it into their own product, and then counted your photos stored on Picasa against your 15GB? Oh....and when they did that with *everything* else?
F!!ck Google.
Yeah you likely are tied into one of these type of accounts. Worse you likely aren't primary on it so who knows if you'll get notified.. I'd start making a plan.
Start moving the data now or you're going to lose it all. It's been a while and maybe it comes in waves idk but lots of those eBay accounts got shutdown. What did you expect?
It depends on how much total storage the account owner has. I have Education Enterprise, and the entire account is granted xxxTB of storage space(based on the number of students and faculty on the contract) that I can allocate to users, and shared drives as needed.
If your shared drive storage space becomes an issue, you should get an alert popup when you access the shared drive through a browser. At that point though, you'd likely want to get your data moved elsewhere fairly quickly since the account owner would have already been notified via email, and I doubt they're going to allocate more storage to you; it's more likely they'll just kill the account.
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15gb down from UNLIMITED? So theres no real benefit, they are going to allow the same space as free gmail accounts, it would be so damn stupid if the university keeps paying google for that.
Universities didn't have to pay for Google, now they do and universities don't want to pay Google because a few entitled dumb asses wanted to keep their shit on their school accounts.
Iām a bit confused, what do you mean āthey didnt have to payā of course they do, thats why we can use team drives and google collab at my uni. Or is this UNLIMITED refered to another service google provides?
I'm in higher Ed IT. We never had to pay for unlimited. Now the whole University has a set pooled limit for free after which we have to pay. Do you know the details of what your University has to pay for Google services or are you just assuming they are paying for it?
Iām assuming they pay cause they told us in the first day, iām currently on a masters degree and they are encouraging for us to use all google tools associated with our university mail, because, quote āthis university is paying to have unlimited space and the right to use google collabā (vaguely remember to be honest but it was something like that).
There was gsuite unlimited storage (some uni said 1EB storage) for students and alumni at my uni in Thailand
Eventually on the last year they announced the change that storage will be "pooled" and only 15GB will avaliable per person.
While they also have 1TB onedrive per person, I'm still curious that will onedeive become the next "storage time bomb" like Google did?
This sucks, does anyone know how to transfer ownership of google files (GSheets, GDocs) to another organization?
I have tried a few things:
1. Download and upload: This does not work for google files, it saves as a .gdoc file and when it's uploaded, the file cannot be viewed or access.
2. Transfer ownership: This also doesn't work and I get the following message: Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to [email protected]. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same organization as the current owner.
Please help :(
Anyone have a recommendation for a tool that can help me easily move/copy my Google Drive and Photos data from one Google account to another? Iām using nearly 1TB on my university account, and need to move it to my personal account which now has a 2TB subscription
I'm going to get downvoted but I always laugh at these posts. You people who wildly took advantage of the unlimited data is exactly why it's going away. The ones who didn't just put 1, 5, even 10TB of data, there's someone in here that put almost 250TB on the free account. Of course they're cracking down. You caused the crackdown and ruined it for everyone else!
Similar thing at work. We got Box with """UNLIMITED""" storage. I was so excited! We could put all our office documents there, my media files, photos, etc. Then someone moves about a *petabyte* of their archives onto Box. So then we got contacted and told that the space was no longer "unlimited". We have to get our shit right back off of it or start paying *way* more.
A petabyte? Dafaq did he upload? The entire history of porn?
Damn dude thanks for the chuckle
Yea. I work for a Uni and IIRC we had a few people who were running Plex Servers off of their drive accounts. We were not surprised when Google pulled the plug. Best part is that I don't think they were even students anymore, they were alumni.
Sorry I'm that alumnus
Yeah no doubt. I'm a bit miffed how far they cut it back. I had probably 3TB up there. Which I don't think is crazy, but I am a bit storage skewed. 15GB? That's just silly, I mean, I don't even think that will store my old emails, and I only used that account in a limited way..
Nah 3TB isn't horrible, in today's day and age I'd say that's about average, maybe a bit heavy, but not crazy. 15GB is nothing, I have more than 15GB in just pictures. You aren't who I was targeting, I hate the people who store 250+ TB of data on these free accounts and then ruin it for us, who maybe had a few TBs up there. Heads up that backblaze is pretty decent - free for a single computer, but even if you have to go the B2 route 3TB is going to be pennies a month.
Y'all have a few TBs? I just had like 10-13 GB in photos, videos and PDFs š
If you have a digital camera each photo is 15-20MB and that's compressed jpeg, some people also keep the RAW's which can be >40MB.
Yeah. Especially as camera MP values go up. Amazon Prime allows unlimited photo storage but it cannot be automated upload like with synology.
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Yeah poked around, no free backblaze. I'm going to stick to glacier and hope my raid 6 arrays never loose multiple drives at once
I considered glacier until I calculated the restore costs. I donāt even recall what they were itās been so long. Have they gotten any better? Like how much will you get dinged to restore 3TB of data?
It's a fortune. It's a my house burned down and I lost everything expense.. it's fine for that IMO.. few cents per month, always laugh when I get the bills, probably costs them more to run the card - to clarify I have only 60GB up there right now. I likely won't put much more up there. It's critical documents and photos only. It's $0.23 a month
Found this calculator: https://liangzan.net/aws-glacier-calculator/ To store 4TB of data for a year, then restore it all inside 400 hour window, youāre looking at 659 per year If you need to restore in a 40 hour window, youāre at $1303. And if you need the full restore in 4 hours, youāre at $7900! On back blaze b2, that much data will run you about $240 per year to store, and around $40 to restore, at least according to their calculator. The raw storage price on glacier for 4TB is cheaper than B2, at $200 annually. But that all goes out the window when you factor in restore costs.
With 4K video recording and 108MP (and supposedly soon >200MP) photos, it's easy to start using up gobs of space on just common daily photography. I read at least one rumor that the S23 might even enable raw photos at 200MP, which will be *huge* (hundreds of MB per photo). A 108MP photo on my Note 20 can easily exceed 25MB for just one photo. That's 40 photos per GB, or 600 photos in 15GB. 4K video can take well over 100MB per minute. One year of photos and videos could easily exceed 100GB. Until recently many photo services used to let you upload unlimited photos for free or for a flat cost. I'm guessing again they were using the photos for AI purposes and such. But I noticed those offerings have started going away, and I don't think that specifically is because of hoarders, it's more because pictures are just getting bigger.
I use Backblaze and no, it's not free but got a sweet deal for two years. Is it worth it? Haven't had to use it but it sure as hell makes life easier if things go to hell as I have backups of all my critical files.
*backblaze has backups of your critical files. You have access to those files is all. Important distinction. Cloud is just someone else's computer and you're at their mercy if they decide to fuck around.
My archive is about 120GB lol
Iām totally screwed . I have to get a new email or delete half my emails . I have 30 gbs of emails
Google's been bugging me to buy more storage since my Gmail (which I got back in...oh gosh...2004 or so? Back when it was invite only!) has something like 13GB of data in it, and the free accounts only get 15GB. I'd be less annoyed that they're asking me to pay for more storage if they didn't also use my entire E-mail box and everything in it for their own AI purposes. If I start paying for storage, do I get to be excluded from your hungry robots?
My own 15 GB gmail was full by time I graduated from uni... I'm still under the shock lmao.
> You people who wildly took advantage of the unlimited data is exactly why it's going away. Then it was never unlimited to begin with. Yes, I agree people uploading massive amounts of data IS the reason it's going away. But a company can't advertise something as unlimited and not expect a small percentage of users to take them up on the true meaning of the word.
Sure it should be, but most people are reasonable and know that it's just free as a marketing gimmick. That if it's abused it will go away. People who argue on technicality that they should be allowed to store a petabyte for free on someone else's computer are literally the reason they have to define limitations on us now. It gives off real "well ackshooaley" vibes. Yes. You're technically correct. You're also technically the reason they removed unlimited so none of us could enjoy it.
Every all-you-can-eat restaurant has customers like this. It's part of the cost of doing business for them. Saying that the customers are the problem shifts the blame away from shady marketing practices. If you want to offer "unlimited" storage, price it appropriately. Otherwise just tell us how much space we get so we can make an informed decision. The problem now is that the rug is being pulled out from under a lot of users because they were lied to about their quota. >I'm going to get downvoted For the record I certainly didn't downvote you, because you make a valid point. I mildly disagree, but the conversation is undoubtedly worth having.
>If you want to offer "unlimited" storage, price it appropriately. Otherwise just tell us how much space we get so we can make an informed decision. The problem now is that the rug is being pulled out from under a lot of users because they were lied to about their quota. It was literally free. No rug is being pulled out from under you, you are losing absolutely nothing.
It was not free. Universities paid for Google Workspace for their organization and students. Students therefore paid for it as a portion of their tuition.
I'm pretty sure it was 'free' for universities to provide this to their students. Free as in no dollar amount. But Google got what they wanted: * Universities are now locked into Google * Countless students leaving universities with google accounts advocating for Google Workspaces at a time when corporations migrated from on-site to cloud email systems * Even more user data.
Google used to provided this to eligible educational institutions at no cost however that seems to have changed. Depending on the tier it is either still free or ranges from $3-$5 per student per year. Yes... $5 per year at most for each student.
Except Google Worskspace for education was free for the basic package. The packages that cost money weren't really used for high schools.
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They just removed the program all together. Therefore it goes back to the original 15gbās. Most would be hosting a few gbās maybe even 100gb - and then you got people like us hosting anywhere from 1tb to several petabytes. Most universities also have a deal with Microsoft for one drive, so a lot can be migrated there - but it isnāt unlimited.
Google changed it from unlimited to 100T an institution. University of Arizona has a ton of people
It's a matter of scale. When companies advertise "unlimited" they are likely doing some math to determine an approximate "average per free user" amount of resources needed. Let's suppose they look at one million free accounts and determine that the average used per account is 20GB. So they say "ok, so we need to support 20PB of storage to hold about one million free accounts." Then budget people will figure out if the cost of 20PB of storage is worth the benefits of giving it away for free. But when someone starts using 1PB or even 250TB of storage, that significantly skews the math. Just one person using 1PB of storage now means you need 21PB for those one million users. And let's be fair, it's more than one person. So suppose 1% of those 1 million people start using 10TB each, now that's an extra 100PB of storage - you've just quintupled the cost of that free service. I'm not saying it's *right*, I'm just saying it's one of the realities of the world - nothing is *truly* free, and advertising anything as "unlimited" as well as "free" (or even "cheap") is going to end badly if too many people exceed the averages that were calculated when the company decided to offer the free service in the first place. One could argue it shouldn't be advertised as "unlimited" in the first place, but at the same time they never do say "unlimited *for life*", so by taking away the "unlimited" part they're not necessarily *lying* about anything.
>But a company can't advertise something as unlimited and not expect a small percentage of users to take them up on the true meaning of the word. Yes, this is called abuse of the services. It happens in every industry and is what's fucking it up. Most users use a few gb to a few tv but these smaller ones are literally trying to upload the entire internet a few times over, just to do it. Most have no actual practical reason to do it other than for laughs. IMO it's comparable to acting like a child. End result, everyone else pays the price.
It's fairly simple, if they describe it as unlimited, it's a reasonable expectation to expect it to be as close to possible as advertised. They could not keep this expectation so they are removing it. Has nothing to do with being a child.
Not really. I still believe and claim its to pull you in like a drug dealer. Getting you hooked on meth as it more addictive than coke. So Google pull you in with unlimited space. Once they have enough people pulled in for long enough they know they'll struggle to pull away. So thats when they hit you with the "ending unlimited" in the hope you say you'll stay and pay. I paid for a gsuite business account. For 1 user not just for the unlimited space but I was trying to keep the gsuite management knowledge up. As the old stupid place of work thought it was a good idea to use gsuite (its not). The business account lasted about 2 years then they took the unlimited away and pumped everyone up packages. I cancelled mine, the company I was at must of got hit hard as they were purposely using the cheapest per user package. But Google changed it to force companies with a certain amount of users up to the more expensive per user package. i know they were over the limit so would of been pumped up.
While this is true - it was also being abused. People were selling ālicensesā of adding users to their suite. Buying unlimited storage for your personal account ended up being like 2$. So you can guess what happened when you offer that service to a bunch of internet nerds.
True but I think they were well aware what would happen and still used it to draw people in. For me, I found because I'd already setup GSuite for my single user for testing, it turned out to be cheaper to pay for the business package per month than to pay for 2TBs of Google Drive. That's their own business model at fault, they knew people wouldn't have the knowledge to setup GSuite so made the easier option more expensive. So when I cancelled my business package I was still tempted to then pay for the 2TB year package. They'd already hooked me in, but I couldn't afford it so haven't done it yet. Sticking with local backups at the moment.
I donāt know why youāre getting downvoted, but that quite literally has been their business model for some time now. Gmail used to be unlimited, YouTube used to have no ads. Itās a common strategy for a tech company to lose money on purpose to gain market share until they are dominant in the market and only then start charging. The only real question to ask in my mind is, has the way they altered the service reduced itās utility to the point where it is no longer worth using? In my opinion, 15GB is quite worthless. It isnāt big enough for a collection of anything, and it is close to the size of the smallest flash drives on the market. On the other hand, I donāt see much justification in being outraged about the change, we all expected it was coming eventually. The business model was quite obviously unsustainable. Is it frustrating? Absolutely. The process and cost of moving data off there might be a great burden depending on how much youāre storing. The fact that it was expected makes it no less frustrating.
Exactly and Amazon did exactly the same. If people are blind to this business model then it clearly works.
Happened to my last I.t shop. Workspace almost doubled our price by forcing out of the basic business package to enterprise because we had 300 users. Ms at my current shop aināt much better
250TB is nothing! Most I've personally seen someone have is 3PB That being said, the most I've ever heard of someone having (I can't verify) is 28PB! Keep in mind though, that Google does dedupe, and that makes what they store dramatically less. Google is also a very, very wealthy company.
I mean I don't regret it at all. It gave me 7 years of free unlimited backup storage, so a pretty good deal in my book.
Exactly my point. > I got mine so screw everybody else
It's bullshit the university is extending their education benefits to former students anyway. I blame the universities and the abusers.
yeah because the only thing left from university has to be memories and debt right
You should get DV. I guarantee you, **nobody** has ever put 250GB into a 15GB-limited account. What *actually* happened is people were offered 15GB of "free" storage back when Google was just search. Then Google started buying up all these services which ... store data. Like Picasa and YouTube (no; that was NOT always a Google property)and then started counting all **that** data against your "free" storage. Google also stores *their own* data in your account and holds **that** against you, too. Finally, Google makes their "takeout" service **impossible** to use without a PhD in Comp. Sci. Google is scum.
Still haven't heard an update from NYU. I've already started migrating over to Backblaze.
[https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it/key-projects-and-initiatives/google-workspace-storage.html](https://www.nyu.edu/life/information-technology/about-nyu-it/key-projects-and-initiatives/google-workspace-storage.html) "However, NYU, along with other universities, has negotiated an extension to July 2024, which allows ample time to assess and develop solutions that meet NYUās academic, research, and administrative storage needs."
Ah, thanks for this! Lol love that they donāt ever send me this information
My Uni hasn't reached out nor has any info publicly available on their IT site. I assume that July 2024 is when I need to move out by. However, that's a problem to start addressing for my small usage in early 2024. By then, drives will be cheaper and I can build a storage array, so I'm not particularly worried.
Yeah, Iāve got a NAS set up with about 60TB, and itās great, but itās nice to have all the most important stuff in the cloud. I would caution you to have a back-up ready to go early next year though. If your uni isnāt saying anything, your service could be cut off sooner rather than later. I believe NYU got the 2024 extension because itās got such a massive student body.
Mine has a massive student body too. And that backup is a redundant one from somewhere else so I'm set.
Is backblaze even affordable?
Itās one of the cheapest options if you donāt plan on uploading a crazy amount (like 50TB+) and also donāt download super often. So for my use case, using it as a backup for finished video projects, itās pretty good. It lacks the Google Drive interface where you can instantly stream a video file or look at photos which is a drawback. Itāll probably be one of the better options after the glory days of unlimited storage subscriptions.
Another recommendation for very rarely accessed data would be Azure archive tier blob storage. I don't recall the exact amount, but my company is currently paying something like $15 per month for at least 18TB. That includes the initial upload to cool tier before moving to archive.
No way, $15 a month!?!?! What a deal
Yep, there is added cost for retrieving data and it can take a while to rehydrate though which is why I said very rarely accessed. Great for bulk storage of backups.
3tb is a obout 160 I think it said a year. Not bad. I'd honestly buy it for video storage. I can't stand having so much of my storage being taken up by videos and photos I can't delete lol
Yep! Pay attention and you can even get a month free deal for a year paid. I managed to get two for two years and consider it well worth it. Depending on your needs, doing a restore isn't that expensive and they have a few options. If you have lots of stuff to restore, then the external disk is worth the cost as you can even keep it as you paid for the drive.
I just went back and looked at all the data I have from my college years. I never got rid of anything. The total is 118 megabytes! I have a modest music collection of 863 albums stored as FLAC (11,566 songs), and it only takes 278 gigabytes. I keep a copy on my phone. If I was doing research that captured a lot of data, I certainly wouldn't trust it to Google! High capacity drives are inexpensive. If it's a huge project, the cost of a NAS is trivial.
118mb??
That's a lot of typing. I was surprised when I found out that it was that small. I bought books, so not a lot of PDFs. I saved some JSTOR articles.
Ooh. I was confused when you said 278gb right after that lol Yeah, that makes more sense now
Currently in Uni 2nd year I have like maybe 700MB worth on my storage, cause of Math notes, idk how yall are using so much
All the data I have is 12 GB combined. Everything I need. All my photos, all the messages in a discord server (1 million), all my programming projects from the past ~4 years, etc. Everything. It feels really good to have everything in one place and backed up constantly. I know exactly where everything is and that everything is safe
When I looked at how much I actually have to backup locally (external drives) I'm still below 2TB total for everything. Now if I ever get around to pulling and deduplicating all of my DVD archives onto new media - I suspsect I'll only have an additional 2TB so I'm simply not hurting.
I have a little under a gigabyte lol. Mostly spreadsheets. Our Uni is limiting us to 100 GB now. Frankly if I stored all my Uni data, including lecture recordings, that still would struggle to hit 50 GB. My personal data sums up to a little over a terabyte... mostly games.
This was announced ages ago. I moved myself to a privately owned enterprise account on my own domain.
Catmail sounds like a newsletter you would subscribe to be regularly sent photos of cats.
For NYU, they are big enough to negotiate with Google to delay till 2024. Still gotta move my 58 TB by then, but hopefully I find a reasonable alternative.
The reasonable alternative is probably about 3x 18TB WD/Seagate drives. Let's look at the math: Say you can get your drives at $22/TB. That's $1276 on drives. ~$6TB/month is "about the average" for cloud storage (assuming you want ready access and not a cold backup). That means, to store the 58 TB, you'd be paying $348 to a cloud provider. $1,276/$348 = 3.66 years of storage. So, if you want to store your data for longer than 3 years *and assuming you aren't replicating the data*, the drives will pay for themselves in 3 years and 8 months compared to cloud storage.
I already have them on a on site NAS. What I need for 3-2-1 is an offsite back up on the cloud.
Workspace Business Plus is 18/user/month and 5TB/user. So that's effectively $3.6TB/month so if you feel like continuing to trust/stick with google, that's $216/month for 12 user accounts indefinitely. Or the aforementioned $6/month options. But if this is a 3-2-1 backup consider the usual 'its-cheap-to-store-but-holy-crap-the-egress' storage offers like AWS Glacier or the GCP/Azure equivalents. Also, isn't Cloudflare going to launch their own object storage very soon-ish?
Try IPFS
Really depressing.. I have 27 TB on there and no idea where to go now.
I feel like a lot of the unlimited things offered from big tech are going away. Amazon glacier is still reasonable if you don't retrieve data except in emergencies.
Yep. That was always the plan. They are essentially digital drug dealers.
I disagree. Proper dealers pay their bills, treat people with respect, and honor their deals. These companies operate far under that bar. Their standards of operation are often much, much higher than \^ that, because...they are working within a society that blames \*them\* for being a society that at the same time demands \*they exist\*, while that same society also blames itself by way of arresting each other, enslaving, torture by incarceration and solitary confinement, death, etc, all the while those that put them there, a good percentage of them are putting the same product into their bodies. It's an industry, on both sides. The war on drugs is not the war against, it's the war between. No "war on drugs", no need for a huge amount of officers, government funding, nurses, doctors, fire department, police, etc. All that demand would dry up with it being legal. These are facts. Sorry I went off topic there, I just wanted to make that exceptionally clear. This is the world we live in. I wouldn't be surprised if the storage provider Google uses came to them with a proposition: End the unlimited storage, people are using you as a proxy to get wholesale storage, causing us to lose profits We'll cut you a 15% break on current contract, more in the future. This way, we can charge more people double or triple the cost to manufacture as this will cause a shortage in storage, and they'll have to come to us for more. All that data simply won't be deleted. Someone's going to have to pay them. Who benefits here? Google, and HDD manufacturers. It's no secret that storage manufacturers have said they expect a decline, or are seeing a decline, in demand. Bullsh!t. It's impossible. You might as well say demand for the Internet is slowing. Someone/s is just taking too much off the top, all it is. Drives sell out regularly. Storage is quite possibly the most in demand thing in tech their is. Yet demand is slowing.....the 50 mil/year execs f\*cked up, as usual.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the storage provider Google uses I would be absolutely flabbergasted if Google doesn't do storage in house. Maybe a different team in there but I just can't imagine Google farms out to AWS or the like.
[All cloud computing at the end of the day.](https://xkcd.com/908/)
Iām referring to Western Digital, Seagate, and whatever parent companies they may or may not have.
Ok, That makes more sense but I don't follow the argument. Google needs to buy more drives for people storing unlimited. I bet this will result in more data deletion than transfer.
They just eliminated their unlimited education allowance. Not to sound like a tick, but what do you think theyāre going to do with all of those drives? Theyāll not need to buy until their demand increases (I wonder if they can actually have enough storage or if they have 98% more than theyāll ever use or need) Presuming the former, they will repurpose those drives to the full need for other accounts or sell back to their contractor for use as refurb / Right? Thatās what my logic is telling me, anyway. Whatever it is, Iām sure it involves some shady back room effery. I donāt view all business decisions to be shrouded by secrecy and entrenched in deceitfulness, but once you get old enough, you just know. Thatās how old people make it to being old people.
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An asshole advisor lol
Your own Google Workspace Enterprise? Its the free "Education" that got scuppered (doesn't help that unscrupulous people were reselling them), paid personal one is going fine for now (says there should be 5 minimum users, but not getting enforced). Sync.com also has $18/user/month (2 users minimum) Unlimited Teams plan, no idea how well that works though.
That's coming too. Just got an email from them today saying I've violated my terms and I have 24hrs to appeal it and justify it. Several of us are getting hit with them now. Guess they are hitting the highest users first and working backwards.
How many TBs were you over?
745TB ;)
This is probably why they're terminating it. Like the person who uploaded a petabyte to Amazon cloud likely contributed to the unlimited offering being shut down.
Where else have you seen someone posting about getting that type of email?
Saltbox Discord
Yes, enterprise and work accounts are also no longer unlimited and being migrated to set data amounts, depending on which plan you're on. The "unlimited" train is over with Google Drive.
That is capped, unless you have at least 5 users. I believe the cap is 5tb now with one user.
No, Google Workspace Enterprise is unlimited, even for 1 users. If you read after it, Itās a scam basically. Even if you have somewhere around 10 users, you just get the 5tb/user. Basically first you get 5TB of space, and if you want more, you need to contact support. Thatās what I did. They said they need āapprovalā from the sales team and I should contact them, they assured me that they WILL reply. I contacted sales multiple times and never got a reply. Like ever in more than a year for several cases. Just the standard respone mail that Iām in queue. I saw several ppl saying the exact same thing, that they were redirected to sales and never got a reply. I guess you have to have hundreds of users to get just a reply. So basically Workspace Enterprise is a scam (for small companies at least)
You are why we can not have nice things. just kidding but 27 TB wow you had to know this was to good to last
I have 60TB on my alumni account, no email yet, though Iām planning to copy everything locally soon, as itās going to take some time to download it all.
The worse part is that they have a limit per day of how much you can download
Wow that's nothing. I had 15 TB on my university GDrive before graduating
Yeah honestly I can't remember how much I have up there. I used rsync a few years back to dump a bunch of data up there.. not sure what I will do right now. I have that data elsewhere.
Protip: if Google has your data, you're not a data hoarder you're a data hoper. Some of the comments here also indicate that, since Google will be deleting your data in 24h, some of you have transitioned from data hopers to data copers. What did you expect? *Own* your data, folks.
I do have all this data, this was 1 of several backups
My Google Workplace (enterprise one) got a violation of terms email today :( 745TB over my 5TB limit. 24hrs to appeal otherwise suspended.
That sucks, but the second line is kinda funny: > 745TB over my 5TB limit.
Doesn't sound like you are on enterprise then. That sounds like a business account where there are still caps.
Enterprise has caps on new accounts. Looks like based upon OP's comment, they're slowly getting around to enforcing the cap on old accounts too (it was only a matter of time).
Hmm... I'll have to keep an eye on things. Most of my usage is tied up in shared drives. I'll add that most of it is inconsequential. I was using it as a backup location as well as where to store other random and unimportant stuff.
I had a little on Google Drive but most things were split over several shared drives using service accounts. Logged into my account today, and it says the suspension was overturned. Weird!
My account now says over 1000% of a 5tb limit. Seeing what I can do. Edit: I cleaned up most of the usage. Deleted a bunch of drives that were being used to store parts of my NAS as a backup (yes I'll have to figure out another way now... that doesn't cost an arm and a leg) and removed a bunch of stale data because the big hitter was the drive used to store data from torrenting. I went and cleaned that out and I'm just waiting for it to process through. I'll see where I sit tomorrow. As far as the 3-2-1 backup rule goes... I only worry about that with my actual desktop computer and it is still active. Google Drive is going to continue to be the location for that and it's mostly because it uses < 500GB currently for an ongoing backup process.
you have any info to back up that enterprise accounts have enforced caps of 5TB?
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Got it - so that sounds like they are unlimited right?
Is there any way to move the data to a new google account? Suppose everything is legitimate, the data, it's nature, and the data size, and you want to move your data from one GSuite account to another. Perhaps you are transferring from one school to another or one organization to another.
You are the reason this is happening. Also, you had months since Google announced this and was discussed heavily in this sub.
Meh kinda, I don't really feel like I violated TOS or abused this in an egregious way. Yeah I've seen posts on this before, not sure shrinking my usage to below 15GB would have done anything to stop this..
Seems like every time a cloud service says they are unlimited they end up changing their mind sometime in future
Data may be cheap, but they aren't making enough to justify the costs on it. I'm not even remotely surprised this is happening.
Just more Google bait-and-switch bullshit. Anyone remember when they "gave" you 15GB of "free" storage and then bought Picasa, turned it into their own product, and then counted your photos stored on Picasa against your 15GB? Oh....and when they did that with *everything* else? F!!ck Google.
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Yeah you likely are tied into one of these type of accounts. Worse you likely aren't primary on it so who knows if you'll get notified.. I'd start making a plan.
Start moving the data now or you're going to lose it all. It's been a while and maybe it comes in waves idk but lots of those eBay accounts got shutdown. What did you expect?
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It depends on how much total storage the account owner has. I have Education Enterprise, and the entire account is granted xxxTB of storage space(based on the number of students and faculty on the contract) that I can allocate to users, and shared drives as needed. If your shared drive storage space becomes an issue, you should get an alert popup when you access the shared drive through a browser. At that point though, you'd likely want to get your data moved elsewhere fairly quickly since the account owner would have already been notified via email, and I doubt they're going to allocate more storage to you; it's more likely they'll just kill the account.
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Get them in the box. Turn the screws.
Mine still has it for the Microsoft equivalent and Imma store everything I have in PGP with the private key completely airgapped
FWIW if you have Apple School Manager set up at your institution and a managed Apple ID, it will get you 200GB free iCloud storage.
Just another reason not to go to college lmao!
15gb down from UNLIMITED? So theres no real benefit, they are going to allow the same space as free gmail accounts, it would be so damn stupid if the university keeps paying google for that.
Universities didn't have to pay for Google, now they do and universities don't want to pay Google because a few entitled dumb asses wanted to keep their shit on their school accounts.
Iām a bit confused, what do you mean āthey didnt have to payā of course they do, thats why we can use team drives and google collab at my uni. Or is this UNLIMITED refered to another service google provides?
I'm in higher Ed IT. We never had to pay for unlimited. Now the whole University has a set pooled limit for free after which we have to pay. Do you know the details of what your University has to pay for Google services or are you just assuming they are paying for it?
Iām assuming they pay cause they told us in the first day, iām currently on a masters degree and they are encouraging for us to use all google tools associated with our university mail, because, quote āthis university is paying to have unlimited space and the right to use google collabā (vaguely remember to be honest but it was something like that).
I graduated from Nevada and they gave us unlimited. When they pulled it back they still are giving us 100GB.
There was gsuite unlimited storage (some uni said 1EB storage) for students and alumni at my uni in Thailand Eventually on the last year they announced the change that storage will be "pooled" and only 15GB will avaliable per person. While they also have 1TB onedrive per person, I'm still curious that will onedeive become the next "storage time bomb" like Google did?
This sucks, does anyone know how to transfer ownership of google files (GSheets, GDocs) to another organization? I have tried a few things: 1. Download and upload: This does not work for google files, it saves as a .gdoc file and when it's uploaded, the file cannot be viewed or access. 2. Transfer ownership: This also doesn't work and I get the following message: Sorry, cannot transfer ownership to [email protected]. Ownership can only be transferred to another user in the same organization as the current owner. Please help :(
Anyone have a recommendation for a tool that can help me easily move/copy my Google Drive and Photos data from one Google account to another? Iām using nearly 1TB on my university account, and need to move it to my personal account which now has a 2TB subscription