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You don't have anything in your HN profile, so I can't be certain, but I'm guessing you haven't been in the Research/Education space? It's scary how much Googl

• hirako2000 4y ago
  +1 And, it's not like Google didn't make huge marketing pushes to enter that space and businesses at large. Gsuite, Classroom, ever increasing storage limits. There is even an education package offering "unlimited" storage.
• Robadob 4y ago
  I work at a university that is fully invested in Google Apps. We did have unlimited storage, however last week they announced that's soon to change: > A quota will soon be introduced on the amount of data that staff and students at the University can store in their Google account. This is part of a larger piece of work being carried out by the Google Workspace team in IT Services, to review the overall amount of storage being used by the University. Makes me wonder if the timing is somehow related.
  • SamuelAdams 4y ago
    Looks like your admins changed the policy. Google ended unlimited storage for Education in 2021. https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-workspace-for-education/ https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/google-wo...
    • secabeen 4y ago
      Those of us who had it before 2021 were allowed a grace period of a few years, but the end date is approaching soon.
• andbberger 4y ago
  google drive has unlimited storage, they opened that pandora's box themselves. yes it's janky as hell, but I'm looking at tens of thousands per year to backup to cloud services for my lab's data