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Here are my thoughts on the issue. (To be clear, my thoughts have no input from my workplace.) A) Why wasn't proper usage reporting built in from the start? If
by jerrac 6y ago
Here are my thoughts on the issue. (To be clear, my thoughts have no input from my workplace.)
A) Why wasn't proper usage reporting built in from the start? If you are limiting a user by a usage metric, then you should be giving them a way to manage that usage intelligently. It does sound like Drive is a complicated structure, but, well, that's no excuse for not supporting your users properly.
B) I'm not surprised by Google ending the unlimited plan. But I still consider it bait and switch. Promising "unlimited" in the first place is impossible. It's false advertising. All the companies that do, or did, that, really should be fined. At very least we should hit them with a class action.
C) Google's method of ending the unlimited plan is not very good. They really should have done something like:
"We are ending the unlimited plan. New users will receive 100TB. Current users with more than 100TB of data will be granted a perpetual 120% of their current data usage as of last night at midnight UTC. Current users with less than 100TB, will have a 120TB limit."
That would have been far more fair, and much less of a bait and switch.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who replied. The tips about rclone really helped out.