Also received google email today
Interesting, thanks!
Eyeing the lower tier SX64 which could work with some slimming. Maybe some good black Friday offer will be on the table.
Do you know if it possible to add space once on a plan?
Have started comparing to local setup, ~80TB would be around $2000 and sufficient for me. But some data would be best to have off site for backup purposes so need to complement a few TBs remote regardless.
Hetzner has already very competetive prices.
When they do Black-Friday-discounts the only thing to expect is a cut of the one-time setup-fee really. It is something yes, but you most like won't get any cuts on monthly prices or so. Their server-auctions are also all without setup-fee btw and they have also advanced high-storage configurations there (f.e 15 x 10TB-Server for ~230$ - could be less i don't know if it shows european prices with VAT to me)
Unlimited Verizon?
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Looks like a decent alternative to spin up new storage. One issue is that there is the 50GB per day limit which means you can';t really migrate existing data over in a timely fashion.
Ok thank you! I will try to figure this out..your instructions are good..but i am a newb at migrations (no experience with CLI). I will go over it again several times, to see if it sinks in.
In your responses, I realized I got the same Google email as the other person (Nov 10), stating the account would be deleted by Dec 9, 2023.
The zero byte file creation is throwing me for a loop. It appears I need to create 50k zero byte .txt files and the snippet you wrote will do it. Is it supposed to be done in Windows > CMD?
Actually, the snippet for the file creation snippet is a sh snippet, meant for the Linux command line.
If you are on Windows, a simple for loop one-liner in CMD will do just as fine:
c:\migration\zero_byte_files_01> for /l %a in (1 1 50000) do type nul > "zero_byte_file_%a.txt"
The zero-byte files are not needed as such, they just help reduce the stress level a little bit 
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Awesome, thank you! I will try that!
After adding "migration" folder in C:, then typing in CMD prompt, this is the result:
C:>c:\migration\zero_byte_files_01> for /l %a in (1 1 50000) do type nul > "zero_byte_file_%a.txt"
'c:\migration\zero_byte_files_01' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Did I do something wrong? Am I missing something?
Ah, sorry for the confusion - the C:\migration\zero_byte_files_01> part is just my prompt displaying my current working directory, simply leave it out. In your case the prompt is "C:\>", because your current working directory is the root of the C drive.
The for loop will create the files in the current working directory, so maybe create a folder for them first.
C:\> mkdir zero_byte_files_01
C:\> cd zero_byte_files_01
C:\zero_byte_files_01> for /l %a in (1 1 50000) do type nul > "zero_byte_file_%a.txt"
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Awesome thanks! Worked perfectly. 
I just got an email from Google Workspace a few days ago saying I've got 30 days notice to download 1,100 TB before they will delete my data! A few months ago their support said I would be able to access my data FOREVER (but can't upload anything new) as long as I continued paying my £15 per month. I have a 5.5 MB/s broadband download speed. It would take me 7 years to download all that, not 30 days!
I don't have time to read this massive thread. Can anyone let me know if there's an alternative to Google Workspace with unlimited storage or lots of storage that will let me transfer my data over from Workspace to it via Rclone or some other method? I know a lot of the early suggestions are no longer an option as they ended their unlimited storage.
MultCloud can be used to transfer from Google Workspace to Backblaze which has unlimited storage. Is it any good with fast transfer speeds to Workspace?
Even utilizing full speed of a gigabit-connection you cannot transfer 1100 TB in 30 days. You roughly need 2 hours for 1TB. For 1100TB you need 2200 hours, which equals to ~90 days.
I really don't know if google offers to pull stuff with 10gbit from their servers, i never had the pleasure to own something with a 10gbit-con, but if you really want to save this data and google doesn't extend this time this going to be very expensive.
Sorry but its kinda funny to read that all the datahorders going in panic. Karma for ruin it for the rest of us.
1100TB yea you prolly need all the data ...
Go enterprice and pay up for the service you want.
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Then there is Googles limits 10TB/day download, so no connection can pull more than 10tb/day (about 920mb/s) average.
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edit: I realized, I just dont care enough anymore to tell off all the idiots.
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Baffling. Dropbox was almost shut down for a month due to the influx on their infrastructure. They couldn't expand due to the rampant abuse.
I think you missed the part on the contract that says subject to change.
It's really math as storing x amount for y per month and you were clearly getting a huge steal and you know that. While the run was good, the unlimited era had to come to an end.
With anything that has unlimited, there are always going to be outliers using way more than everyone else which eventually either catches up to them, the service or anyone else.
You can put anything you want in a contract. That doesn't necessarily make it legal. Luckily for me, most consumer friendly countries have provisions against one-sided change of contracts. You just have to take them to court. I advise everyone to do that and see how flexible Google suddenly becomes.
"Hi - I'm abusing the heck out of this storage provider and I want true unlimited forever. Please fix lawyer / jury."
If you can post your court outcome, please do I'd love to see hear the end of this story.
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It's funny to me how many people are offended on the behalf of google, dropbox, box, etc. Whether you agree with other people taking advantage (of what they were told they were able to do), why ever take the side of a giant faceless corporation that makes billions a year?
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