+1 to that. Unfortunately for my use case, the upload speed for the volume of data I need to store (~35TB nowadays) is only 0.25Mbit/s (not MB/s) and so totally unsuitable for my use case (it would need almost half a day to upload 1GB). And that's without taking into account the time it would take to upload these 35TB... just the final 15 of those 35TB would take almost 20 years... too bad, as the price is right and I like their transparency.
Yeah, Google is going out of their way to make it clear they really, really don't want people storing large volumes of data with them.
It would have been best if they had stated that right from the beginning instead of baiting us in and then changing the rules over and over again; it would have saved many of us a lot of grief, effort and money.
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A friend of mine who still has a Google Workspace subscription has received a similar email, but in his case the change was from "$18.00 USD per user/month" to "$20.00 USD per user/month", so just a ~11% increase.
EDIT: wait... @nigelbb do you mean Google sent you that email after telling you your account is going to be deleted (and your data along with it) in a month!? Are they effing crazy or what?? 
No. They sent the email regarding the price increase last week & the notice of deletion of my account today.
if you have sufficient users you can also have the storage space and ask for an increase every 90 days.
this works like describe above in this thread and is more reliable than all promises from other providers who claim to act according to their TOS.
googles option is of course far away from the previous unlimited storage offer but at least seems to be one working solution also for higher storage needs.
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OK, thanks for the clarification. At least it's a little less absurd...
You are correct. A friend of mine still has Google Drive and I've helped him to get the 5TB increase twice now, and despite some noise the second time (the increase showed in some Admin console panels but not in others, and more important, wasn't showing in rclone about), all is good and working now.
this works like describe above in this thread and is more reliable than all promises from other providers who claim to act according to their TOS.
Agreed -- in the last few months I had the worst possible experiences with Box (they are just plain scammers -- anyone reading this, avoid them by all means) and Dropbox (they changed their terms repeatedly, and failed to make good on their promises).
googles option is of course far away from the previous unlimited storage offer but at least seems to be one working solution also for higher storage needs.
Again, I agree -- but the best option overall seems to be to build your own remote storage at a friend's or relative's place. That's what I'm working towards right now.
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forgot the nightmare with box for 5 months. - whoever thought that google or dropbox experience was bad should really try to use box for their business or enterprise service.
waiting for nearly a month to provide evidence for their action of blocking our account and access to our data.
box claims to act on a signed contractual agreement and legal ground but fails to provide reference or links to contractual agreements between them and us as a customer where this part has been communicated and agreed.
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Give them hell, mate -- they certainly deserve it. I hope you or someone take them to court and get them to pay a small fortune in damages -- even so it would be too cheap for all the evil they've done to us.
i build my own server with a really beefy storage since @Blue_Lagoon deleted 110 TB of my data (shared Dropbox Account) without any words.
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Have you heard anything back from these guys?
Nope, i have sent like 5 e-mails and never heard a peep. I made a free account, but you cant do anything until you subscribe to something. I have a feeling they are no longer around and their weboage is still working for some reason. I do not want to risk it tho. Too many unanswered questions and no rclone support.
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I received a scary email from Google on 22/01/2024 that said :- Your Google Workspace Enterprise Standard for your account nigelbarker.com has been scheduled for suspension and will soon be canceled, and your data will be lost
On 26/01/2024 the daily email regarding exceeding my storage quota had reverted to simply informing me that my pooled storage grace period had expired so my Google Drive was now read-only but had no mention of data loss.
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you have to add additional users matching your currently used storage, then the warning should be removed.
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Hey all, still looking for cloud options for once my Dropbox ‘last year’ expires and I am set to potentially loose 165TB:
Would something like this be an option? Through OneDrive Business if I read correctly you could be able to get potentially 125TB. Sounds interesting to me to get 125TB shared over 5 SharePoints. Anyone experience how this would work exactly? And price-wise?
Maybe it's just time we accept it is over. Even if you find a loophole Microsoft et al hasn't closed yet or thought of yet, halfway through your 165TB transfer they will and you're back at square one. Built your infrastructure locally and be done with it:
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I agree on this, either two options now:
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Buy Cloud Storage like idrive e2.
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build you own NAS and deal with that.
I dont see other options yet, unless microsoft releases "glass storage technology" at a cheaper price, then in that kind of scenario i think we will need @ncw to help us making rclone compatible with microsoft's glass storage if such technology is ever present in the market.
Glass Storage is cold storage.
Per my calculations, at this point, iDrive E2 is $2.50/TB/month (once the first year discount runs out) and Google Drive Workspace Enterprise Standard with 5 users is $4.00/TB/month. However once you get your first 5TB per user 90 day upgrade, it already drops to $2.00/TB/month on Workspace so I'm probably just going to up my workspace to 5 users, get the upgrade and keep using that.
Have you factored in the recent 50% price hike for Google Workspace Enterprise Standard Edition? My subscription has increased from £15.30 per seat to £23.04 per seat.