Pooled storage limit exceeded alternative or sloution

owais16

seems its end of Google Workspace unlimited storage
just got an mail yesterday please share yout thoughts

risharde

Ahh yes, people with huge wages getting it wrong... gotta love the way the world works.

LTniger

Can't find news in https://news.ycombinator.com/ , seems fake AF. Here is how legit email should look:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/13fhbca/well_i_guess_google_workspace_enterprise/

malignify

You're not the only one. Saw this on r/DataHoarder.

JabJab

@LTniger said:
Can't find news in https://news.ycombinator.com/ , seems fake AF. Here is how legit email should look:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuite/comments/13fhbca/well_i_guess_google_workspace_enterprise/

Looks exactly the same... except it's forward non-html?

owais16

no its not fake check it here
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13fd3nj/all_good_things_eventually_come_to_an_end_google/

Smith42

The email is authentic. I received it too last week and I spoke to support. Google has enforced 5TB/limit per user. So now if you want to store 50TB on the cloud, you need to pay for 10x users.

Jasonhyperhost

@Smith42 said:
The email is authentic. I received it too last week and I spoke to support. Google has enforced 5TB/limit per user. So now if you want to store 50TB on the cloud, you need to pay for 10x users.

if you want to keep going with unlimited have to find another unlimited provider but as soon as they catch on you will be in the same boat

plumberg

Huh....

I need to pay for what I use now....

(Literally everyone on the internet)

aj_potc

It's a bit difficult to value Google's storage. For VPS providers, we compare the price of storage per TB per month. On top of that we get some fixed amount of RAM, CPU and transfer per month.

Google's storage, however, is different. On the one hand, it's not as flexible as having your own VPS. You can use rclone to do transfers easily enough, but cloud storage is always clunkier than using regular utilities to read and write from a filesystem on a block device. There are also various quotas to worry about.

On the other hand, Google's storage should be much more reliable than a single VPS, with data replicated over multiple Google datacenters (at least in theory).

I think this type of storage has its place as one tier in a backup/archival ecosystem. I'm just not sure the $20/user/month is worth it for 5 TB of storage alone.

darkimmortal

We won’t see blood in the streets until Dropbox follows