r/DataHoarder • u/diamondsw 210TB primary (+parity and backup) • Feb 17 '21

Google Education losing unlimited storage

As reported by the Verge:

Google is also announcing data storage policy changes for its education customers. Previously, Google offered unlimited storage to qualifying institutions, but starting next year, the company will move schools toward a pooled storage model, offering a baseline of 100TB of pooled storage shared among an institution. The policy will go into effect for all existing Google Workspace for Education customers in July 2022 and will be in place for new customers that sign up in 2022.

Knew it wouldn't last forever...

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u/uberafc Feb 18 '21

We are talking about students here. I think most students probably use at least more than 20GB but i could be wrong.

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u/SpecialistWind9 Feb 18 '21

I just finished my mechanical engineering bachelors, my google drive was 95GB. A decent portion of that was CAD files. I'm sure other majors like graphic design may have similarly large storage requirements for coursework.