Would I be able to get a PM as well (for the feasible options)? Feeling really lost here 
@jaimedelano, yes feel free to PM me and thank you!
Talked to that person and it was no fault of theirs. Google decided to deactivate his account claiming breach of terms. Its possible to appeal that I think.
Same here, account was terminated by Box. They don't even follow their own TOS. If a user uploaded more than 1 TB, and they can detect it, why would they terminate the entire account instead of restricting that user? Absolute clowns, who would ever use this for any business critical stuff. They refunded me at least, but lost all data.
usually if people have business critical stuff they use service which fits their requirement. Not what is the cheapest regardless of TOS and hope they can sneak with their usage braking any contractual rules.
Box is actually used by multiple of customers I work with - they do not have slightest issues. Probably because they use it for what it is for:)
What Box is not is dump storage for 100s TB of data. Anybody who bothered to read their T&Cs would know it. Different story is their misleading advertising - but then again.. who trusts adds.
Thatās what I was told, too. Hopefully, the account can be recovered, but knowing Google, Iām not banking on it.
when i first found that google was offering unlimited space on drive i started to use it to backup my devices, my family pictures, the video of my wedding and stuff like that.
than i found out that i have a disease that in the end will kill me. nothing special, everyone has to die, sooner or later, i only know that my life span will be shorter than i probably expected, so, please, no pity here.
but something clicked in me and i started to use rclone and save all the things that i wanted my sons to be able to watch, hear and read one day, that had been important to me in a moment of my life.
i have never shared a single file with anyone outside my kids, i really wanted to build a library for them, a tangible sign of my love given that i will not be able to leave money or better. but in the back of my skull i have always known that this deal was too good on my side to be true.
i am writing this because i am out of options, i can keep paying google but i am not sure they will keep my data freezed forever and i am afraid that, sooner or later, they are going to delete it. so, if anyone has a viable, affordable option, please let me know... i have been collecting this stuff for my kids for years, i know it's only 1s and 0s and there is war, desease and misery in the world, but it's tearing my soul apart.
thanks for anybody's help.
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1 TB a month for ingress/egress is pretty absurd tbh. And okay, they have that limit thatās fine. But letās say I have 100 users and one of them uploads 2 TB instead of 1. They terminate the whole account? How is that fair. Whatās worse is there is no way to even track how much bandwidth youāve used in your account settings.
None of the other big cloud storage companies would act this aggressively to the point where you canāt even get your own data back. I paid Box for a year upfront and got treated like a criminal
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How much TB do you have?
This question is hard to answer without knowing how much data you have and how much its growing by.
Regardless, since this data is clearly super precious, I want to emphasize that you shouldn't be storing it in just one place. You should have multiple copies of you data stored in multiple places so that if one location goes offline, you don't lose your data. Look at the posts about Box here where people lost access to their data or heck even Google sometimes randomly bans accounts with little recourse.
I think 1TB per month of egress/ingress per user is fine if it's aggregated across the entire account. I wouldnt mind temporarily paying for more users for the times I need more bandwidth. Banning an entire account because of one user is awful. But not giving us the tools to monitor how much bandwidth we are using so we can ensure we stay within that policy is terrible.
I have a jotta free account just to play with. The upload speed from the getgo was slower than opendrive and there are a lot of bad online reviews of accounts being terminated for no good reason
I've seen android apps that offer unlimited space by using Telegram's API - the storage is unlimited but the size per file is limited to 2GB. I've looked at solutions to mount it in linux but seems fairly complicated - granted I haven't had the time to really delve into it further
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around 250tb growing around 100gb/day, but i didn't use to delete anything when i managed to find a "better" version, so that's the worst case.
the traffic i produce in download i think it's pretty ridicoulous, my kids are 3 and 6 so i think we are under 10gb/day
i saw those too, but i am not sure that telegram will not react to an increase of many tb in their used space and we will be back on square 1
Dude you have 2 options
- buy HARDDRIVES and store your data local
- buy 300TB at IDriveĀ® e2 plans and pricing for cloud storage for 6000$ p year (500 $ month)
or pray for a miracle.
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i started with hard drives, but
1 they are a lot of hard drives
2 i can store them, and need to keep track of where is what and when i want to access it, connect the drive
3 unless i have some level of redundancy (more drives) if a drive fails i loose the data saved on that drive
i would gladly pay to keep my data on a reliable cloud service (even google), but i can't afford it...
i think i have to start praying.
The simplest & cheapest option is just to leave the data where it is on Google Drive.
For Google Workspace Business Plus users Google will on request double the per user allowance from 5TB to 10TB. Each user costs $18/month ie $216 per year so 250TB of shared storage would cost $450/month.
The big unknown is how after the obligatory 90 day waiting period Google will respond to another request to increase the per user storage. It might be they will increase it by 5TB/user or 1Tb or 0TB.
That is not a good solution ... 450$ a month + complicated requesting and managing with google support? Sry but then buy S3 object storage from idrive. 500$ m for 300 TB
I didnāt find it complicated at all to request increased storage. I just sent one message. I now have 10TB per user. I donāt need 250TB but if I did it would cost me $450/month. Why would I want to pay an extra $50/month? Never mind the cost what about the hassle of copying 250TB elsewhere?