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Just like with internet or other storage platforms, 99% of users are trivial amounts of usage. It's the 1% that use more than the 99% combined that are the prob
by mysterydip 6y ago
Just like with internet or other storage platforms, 99% of users are trivial amounts of usage. It's the 1% that use more than the 99% combined that are the problem.
- londons_explore 6y agoAnd at a school or university it's easy for the admin to simply add quotas that say "If you use more than 100 gigs, we will deactivate your account".
- mysterydip 6y agoHaving worked there before, yes it's easy to do that to students. Admin staff and (tenured) faculty, less so.
- jeffbee 6y agoI never had anyone tell me that I had to offer special dispensation to tenured professors when I was the sysadmin of shared services at a university. They get what they get! Also I kinda feel like a university probably won't use the free tier of Google storage. I imagine they'd go for the $5/year plan that includes 20GB of additional quota per account.
- mysterydip 6y agoI wish I had worked at your university :D Politics were getting in the way of sane policies all the time. Fair point on the free tier, though it depends on how valuable they think the IT department is (see above) and yearly budget, etc.
- londons_explore 6y ago"IT offers 20 GB per professor normally. We can increase yours to 40 GB on request, or more if your department can make a contribution to the running costs."
- jeffbee 6y agoHaving pooled storage of 100TB per customer seems to handle that distribution far better than enforcing a different quota such as 5GB per account.