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Sort of. You need Enterprise for unlimited now. Only get a max of 2TB per user now I believe.

 

I wonder what'll happen for accounts already over. It's the first sign of G Suite not being 'fully' free for schools - really bad timing if you look at budgets!

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Sort of. You need Enterprise for unlimited now. Only get a max of 2TB per user now I believe.

 

Do you have a source for this? As far as I'm aware, the unlimited storage has not changed for schools. This is reflected on their support site. There has always been a limit that you cannot have a single file bigger than 5TB, (I was told this at Google's HQ in London) however, the total storage space is unlimited.

 

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UPDATE: Also, May Jue (Lead for the Google Certified Trainer program) confirmed on Twitter that G Suite for Education is not being rebranded to Google Workspace just yet. It will happen, but not just yet.

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I think the concern is that G Suite for Education has yet to undergo its rebrand. When it does and it becomes Google Workspace for Education, the feature list might change in the same way that it has for G Suite for Business, it's closest cousin.
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Sort of. You need Enterprise for unlimited now. Only get a max of 2TB per user now I believe.

Nothing has been announced for Education yet.

I wouldn't expect them to reign back space limits, as frankly, no one hits anywhere near them (the only people who do are those using accounts as backup storage solutions, which is already against the Ts&Cs)

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Nothing has been announced for Education yet.

I wouldn't expect them to reign back space limits, as frankly, no one hits anywhere near them (the only people who do are those using accounts as backup storage solutions, which is already against the Ts&Cs)

I couldn't see it called out here https://workspace.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/terms/2013/1/premier_terms.html

 

Is it elsewhere? I can see there has to be some limit, but I got the feeling transfer speeds/limits effectively achieved a degree of control. Otherwise, saying unlimited should say unlimited except...

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Unlimited actually isnt unlimited. Linus Tech Tips tried to back up his 1PB of archive storage to Google Drive. He got cut off at 750TB.

 

Also I should mention - when I said I was doing Veeam backups to Google Drive I meant to G Suite Business for my personal NAS, we use proper backup solutions in production.

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Unlimited actually isnt unlimited. Linus Tech Tips tried to back up his 1PB of archive storage to Google Drive. He got cut off at 750TB.

 

Also I should mention - when I said I was doing Veeam backups to Google Drive I meant to G Suite Business for my personal NAS, we use proper backup solutions in production.

I had seen that Linus video and again thought he setup multiple accounts but ultimately it was a transfer speed that ultimately limited, but I accepted I could be mistaken - it was a while ago! To be honest, I can see Google would want to stop daft abuse of 'unlimited', but then it sort of means we need one of those star suffixes on the word 'Unlimited'.

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There's a serious point here and it is well worth reporting to Google in any way possible. When I worked with IBM, for the U.S. there were stringent guidelines and laws around accessibility, especially if you were to sell to public sector organisations . I find it hard to believe these would make the grade. There are also EU directives. Even if Google are adhering to the letter of the regs, they are not achieving the spirit of them.
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