Is Google running out of storage? In the last 18 months they've seemed to complete a 180 degree turn on their "store all the things" policy.
> baseline of 100 TB<p>> Institutions with greater than 20,000 [...] active users [...] will be provided with additional storage.<p>So >=5GB per user. Not great, not terrible. I guess most students who use their Google student account for educational purposes only don't need more than that.<p>Might get tricky for teachers and some STEM-students however.
If any Google employee reads this, how do you check how much data is in a specific drive folder? I haven't found an official method.<p>I need to free up space, thanks to the new storage policy. It's kinda hard to track down which directories are using the most data when there is no way to check...
It’s pretty obvious why. It’s the people from r/datahoarders and r/plex that were abusing drive and to a further extent really cheap eBay sold accounts.
Are hard drives harder or more expensive to come by these days due to COVID related production issues? Or is storage not decreasing in price according to their benchmark? Google Workspace only offers 30gb in their lower priced plans ($6/month) which seems a bit less too.
> 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.<p>What ? I know me and my friends alone use 5TB each. And our uni has around 8000 students.<p>100TB for everyone combined is ridiculously low.