Have you requested the 5TB/user increase after the first dump?
Second everything you said. We waited for the new month, then for the new billing month and we also tried uploading with all the users in our organization, but we cannot upload anything in any way. We also think that they probably run out of space or at least has only some slots reserved, e.g.: you open a personal free account and you can actually use it.
Major point: customer service, even the higher level where we were escalated does not answer anymore, even if our priority is set to high.
We are also fine for paying what we are asked to, but being blocked indefinitely really put us in a bad situation for our business. At the moment our only hope is having iDrive or Backblaze giving us a good deal (we are still talking) and start moving again, because it looks like we do not have any other chance.
Maybe becasue it is weekend!? I know for example Dropbox has no support on weekends for such “questions”
How could this be “this month”? I guess you were not pushing 72TB on the 1st of September (on one day) 
As it was maybe in August, therefore the limitation / restriction should have been valid only until 09-01, and not until 10-02
I guess it is time to build my own local storage now. I calculated this through and I can build a single 4U storage server with 320 TB usable storage and colocate it in a datacenter for well under 2$ / TB / month. This includes the cost for colocation, electricity and traffic for my use case and also the hardware, which will be paid for within two years. It does not include my time, but since this is a fun hobby for me that is fine with me.
I don't think any cloud storage provider will become cheaper than that in this timeframe, what do you think?
iDrive e2 S3 - IDrive® e2 plans and pricing for cloud storage is already below $2 per TB/month.
Hopefully the end of "unlimited" offers will drive prices down - there is definitely substantial market for reasonably priced cloud storage.
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Well, good that I asked, I wasn't aware of that. Thank you!
Mega.io is also cheaper Pricing - MEGA as far as I know. Haven't used it for large data storage. Maybe someone else can chime in about it.
Yandex has a Family plan (8 users, 1TB per user = 8TB) for under $ 4 per month.
It's the cheapest I know from a big provider.
If someone wants to try unknown names, there's PikPak offering $3.6 for 10TB or $16 for 50TB.
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Does anyone have experience with these providers? How are the transfer speeds?
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That would be sometime in October for me. I'm way behind the times, as I didn't check my email regularly enough to get that 60 day warning email promptly.
I am hoping someone else can test the waters on this in September, so I can give up a month sooner if needed.
I had GSuite with unlimited storage for years, was forced to Google Workspace Enterprise that claimed to include "as much storage as you need"... paid for that for a long time... Now they started their limiting to 15TB. It goes against the law to change the agreement like that but they don't seem to care and don't seem to even be willing to give me a support representative from my country to talk to about it.
I have about 100TB of data and it's mostly project data, system and server backups, backups of locally hosted applications like Nextcloud etc. I'm sooooo tired of how companies can get away with this time and time again.
This has cost me and my company (I run a one person company so not a humongous company with trillions of dollars) a lot of time an money in the past and now I have to migrate 100TB of data somehow. I used to mount my gdrive in my linux file system since that made things easy when it came to moving data.
Does anyone have a slot in a working setup with true unlimited storage in either Google or Dropbox? That seems to have been working the best when mounting using rclone. I would be happy to pay for a slot and I (due to th sensitive nature ot work/customer related data) encrypt eveything that is stored on it.
Depending on how you look at this it saved you a lot of money... Nobody prevented you from using AWS from day one and avoiding all hassle of chasing cheap deals.
All depends on how much your time is worth at the end.
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No it didn't. I had local storage to get me through about 100TB. But since they offered this and it in the long run would become a cheaper option for me I build up infrastructure, workflows etc all around the notion that the agreement I and Google entered would be honoured. Then they did that for a while, and gladly taking the money during that time and then singlehandedly decided to stop. Now if we agreed on changing the initial agreement then that would be fine. But this, as the GSuite before it... was nothing more than bait and switch.
Google uppers only to 200 % capacity for several months.
We got it = 1 TB - 2 
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100 TB at Google Workspace Enterprise = 10 accounts, 200 .
This is not correct.
With Workspace Enterprise and 5+ accounts you can have as much as you need, just make more accounts. Google can upper your storage on their behalf 100 % up for no more payments once in 3 months.
When I was "forced" away from my GSuite Business account that included "Unlimited Storage" these were the options I got.
The Enterprise Standard offered "As Much Storage as you need". Not 15 TB/user or anything like that. There was no mentioning at all in any of the screens during the selection of a new plan of any kind of minimum users or any kind of caveat to the storage offered.
Could I add four more accounts and hope they live up to their end of the agreement? Sure. But then the agreement we entered would be 5x the amount they initially said for the same service they initially offered.
But let's say I do that. What on earth would make me believe they would honour 200TB or 300TB when I "need" that?
They could change their mind about any part of anything they offer tomorrow. They have shown nothing indicating that they care about agreements they have entered. They only thing that would be different is that any user would be even further down the hole and have even more data they would have to handle and migrate.
@iNQUAM check iDrive if you need storage
I really wish a good lawyer could chime in as to what protection customers have from now on, re. Google Workspace for Enterprise.
Because while I can understand the need for companies to adapt to the market, while I can understand the need to put a stop to what, in truth, amounted to little more than freeloaders... a company has the need to plan ahead. And Google is making it pretty much impossible.
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Yes you are right here. But like any business they have right to terminate their contract too. For sure all "unlimited" advertising only purpose was to sign in as many paying customers as possible. It worked for as long as there were few people using this offer to the max. At some stage it became unsustainable for Google, Dropbox, Box etc. There is nothing we can do about it - era of "free" storage is over for time being.