Google Is Switching Legacy G Suite Users To Pooled Workspace Storage (theverge.com) 7
According to The Verge, legacy G Suite accounts will soon lose their individual storage allotment perks and be transitioned to pooled storage, which will be "shared across all users within your organization." The changes will come into effect starting May 1st. From the report: G Suite was rebranded as Workspace in 2020. G Suite legacy free edition, which Google stopped offering in 2012, provides each user with 15GB of free allocated storage and was offered for personal use -- making it ideal for families or groups that need to share a collective domain. Existing users have been permitted to access Workspace services at no additional charge, but Google says it's now making this change because pooled storage provides a "simpler and more flexible way to manage storage." "Google Workspace customers have had the benefit of pooled storage for years, and now we're rolling it out to users with this legacy offering," Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson told The Verge.
No action is required for the switch according to Google, and users cannot opt out of the pooled storage transition. The total amount of storage allocated to the entire G Suite account won't be reduced, but if more storage is required then it can be purchased "at a discount" starting at increments of 100GB, which typically costs $15. Google hasn't specified how large this discount will be. Storage limitations can still be set for each user within the G Suite account after the transition to prevent the collective storage pool from being hogged by individual users. These limits will have to be manually assigned by an account admin, however.
No action is required for the switch according to Google, and users cannot opt out of the pooled storage transition. The total amount of storage allocated to the entire G Suite account won't be reduced, but if more storage is required then it can be purchased "at a discount" starting at increments of 100GB, which typically costs $15. Google hasn't specified how large this discount will be. Storage limitations can still be set for each user within the G Suite account after the transition to prevent the collective storage pool from being hogged by individual users. These limits will have to be manually assigned by an account admin, however.
Enshitification continues. (Score:3)
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This feels more like laziness than enshitification; they can't be bothered to treat the account types differently. The last go around led me to trust the future of the accounts a lot less and personally I stopped using the account to buy media.
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This feels more like laziness than enshitification; they can't be bothered to treat the account types differently.
Depending on your use case and perspective, this is a boon, not a bust. FTA:
I for one welcome the much larger, more useful storage pool this change allows for.
Backup in 3, 2, 1... (Score:2)
At least once a year everyone should download and archive a personal copy of their Google Drive information. You can use Google Takeout to select which Google storage types you want to download, then store a local archive copy.
How to download your Google data [google.com]
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Its Google being Google and failing to understand that their single most pressing cause of why they dont get the sort of respect with their commercial shit compared to the likes of Microsoft and AWS is that nobody trusts them to not continuously cause crisises in organizations by constantly deleting products and breaking them.
Why would *anyone* trust their infrastructure to Google when you can just go with Office365, Azure or AWS depending on your use-case, pay a little bit more, but have the piece of mind
Why the complaints? This is a better deal... (Score:1)
I am legacy user going back to GAFYD, I transitioned to the free version of Business Starter a couple years back. I'm a single user for my domain, and was stuck with only 17GB storage. When they migrated my account to pooled storage I went into the admin panel and added 100 new "users" and Google instantly gave me another 1.5TB free storage, which I'm now making good use of. Thanks Google~!
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My complaint is "too little too late"
I too have been a gsuite legacy user since back when they called it "google hosted communications"
Their threat of canceling the entire service before over a year later replacing it with a free subscription to workspace has ruined them and they aren't going to fix matters by giving more storage space.
I simply can't risk actually using their storage for anything due to their track record of revoking it or just switching it over to regular billing.
The free lifetime accounts