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> We recently announced a new storage model, which provides schools and universities with a baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users. What
by IceWreck 6y ago
> We recently announced a new storage model, which provides schools and universities with a baseline of 100 TB of pooled storage shared across all users.
What ? I know me and my friends alone use 5TB each. And our uni has around 8000 students.
100TB for everyone combined is ridiculously low.
- kylehotchkiss 6y agoIs that 5TB school work, or are you using it for personal files too?
- IceWreck 6y agoAbout 40 GB is school work, the rest is personal files. Huge music collections, comics, course dumps, photos, downloaded youtube channels, etc.
- float4 6y agoAnd you're genuinely wondering why they are imposing limits? Sure, the new limits are <40GB/student, but most students are probably only using like 1GB of storage anyway. They write some essays, store some PDF's, share some Google Docs documents, use a music streaming service, and don't download YouTube videos.
- meibo 6y agoI don't think you can complain about this while using your school-supplied account for that much private data. Seems acceptable for schools to start enforcing acceptable-use policies that exclude using these accounts for anything but schoolwork if it saves money and resources to spend on other things.
- vangelis 6y agoBefore abundant cloud storage somebody with internship money had to buy their own NAS. Kids these days.
- WillSlim95 6y agoAs a masters student,I am seriously considering doing that since I don't want to depend on streaming and cloud backups anymore. Any pointers good sir/mam on how to have their own physical backups? Like NAS and others?
- kylehotchkiss 6y agoSynology NAS. Seagate Ironwolf hard drives are a good pairing. You can setup your NAS to backup to AWS Deep Glacier or GCP equivalent so you have redundancy still.
- vangelis 6y agoSynology is good out of the box. I have a custom-ish U-NAS case.
- ghaff 6y agoNote that RAID isn't a replacement for backups. Personally, I just use USB-connected drives, Time Machine backups (on a Mac), and Backblaze for a secondary cloud backup.
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- johnnymonster 6y agoDownload youtube videos just to re-upload them to the same company's storage array. This is hilarious.
- IceWreck 6y agoyes, because google has a habit of removing content from youtube, even educational content. (they made a policy to remove infosec content last year which they deem dangerous) moreover, some youtubers remove their stuff
- josefx 6y agoYoutubes copyright enforcement can hit videos at random, parodies like DBZA have been lucky enough to reappear after a few months. Other channels discussing movies or really anything else that might contain a few seconds of copyrighted music in the background can suffer random bouts of silence. So there are good reasons someone might feel the need to keep a personal backup outside of youtube.
- yunohn 6y agoIt appears that this is exactly the behavior they want to prevent - people hoarding personal (and illegal) files on institutional/corporate accounts.
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- deepl_derber 6y agolol, so in other words, you're exactly the reason they're doing this. Why did you think your university account was for "whatever random crap I want to put in it", and also as much data as I could ever want to use"?
- Proven 6y agoCheck with Bernie Sanders, maybe he has some free HDDs