Google drive mounted in Windows/Linux

rvZA said:
Not sure what planet you are living on, or what shady providers you are using that may disappear anytime and you lose everything... but Google Inc in the US on their Workspace, charges me US$300 (R5,324) for 10TB additional data per month after I have reached my totally unlimited cap of 5TB on their biggest enterprise plan. Not per year. Not quarterly. Per month.

Yes, there are services that are probably US$10, or US$30 cheaper per month, but nonetheless, they are still ripping people off at these prices and you can save a whole lot of money buying your own drives and doing things yourself.

Damn, set up one drive at your home, another at a family members home and walla....., you have your own cloud too.
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None so deaf as those who do not wish to hear.

Edit: are you saying all these tech sites are wrong?
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Edit 2: OneDrive for Business (Plan 2) is R177.80 per user per month and allows for 25TB per user.
 
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Speedster said:
None so deaf as those who do not wish to hear.

Edit: are you saying all these tech sites are wrong?
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www.techradar.com www.techradar.com
www.tomsguide.com

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www.tomsguide.com www.tomsguide.com
www.pcmag.com

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Storing and syncing documents and media in the cloud is a huge convenience. The top services we've tested let you easily share and access files from anywhere and restore them if something goes wrong.
www.pcmag.com www.pcmag.com
www.wired.com

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Cloud storage is the easiest way to save your memories and share files. These are the best WIRED-tested services for personal use.
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www.zdnet.com

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In reality, none of those services are practical for us normal users. Especially those who need access to movies, series, and many other type of files we need backed up and to access on a daily basis. Those cheapies do not allow you to mount the drives on your server. Others who do, only provide you with 2TB or 5TB data. They have massive limits in the TOS and AUPs.

No thanks. Been there, tested them all and none are working for me.
 
rvZA said:
In reality, none of those services are practical for us normal users. Especially those who need access to movies, series, and many other type of files we need backed up and to access on a daily basis. Those cheapies do not allow you to mount the drives on your server. Others who do, only provide you with 2TB or 5TB data. They have massive limits in the TOS and AUPs.

No thanks. Been there, tested them all and none are working for me.
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So weird that my free 5TB from Microsoft works for me. I must be doing something wrong.
 
rvZA said:
In reality, none of those services are practical for us normal users
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Yeah no, you aren't a "normal" user when you're paying $300 a month for enterprise cloud storage while still looking to add on top of that, and also spending 15k on physical storage.

rvZA said:
Especially those who need access to movies, series, and many other type of files we need backed up and to access on a daily basis. Those cheapies do not allow you to mount the drives on your server. Others who do, only provide you with 2TB or 5TB data. They have massive limits in the TOS and AUPs.
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I need access to movies, series etc and i don't even pay that much. There are many a decent amount of options that allow you to mount drives on your server/system like hetzner (which is very solid and not super expensive for 10TB), as well as the microsoft dev program where you can get 5x 5TB drives for literally no money.

sidenote edit: rclone is a really amazing tool, now that i think about it
 
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tm458 said:
Yeah no, you aren't a "normal" user when you're paying $300 a month for enterprise cloud storage while still looking to add on top of that, and also spending 15k on physical storage.


I need access to movies, series etc and i don't even pay that much. There are many a decent amount of options that allow you to mount drives on your server/system like hetzner (which is very solid and not super expensive for 10TB), as well as the microsoft dev program where you can get 5x 5TB drives for literally no money.

sidenote edit: rclone is a really amazing tool, now that i think about it
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Yeah, until these local hosts cut you down and you lose many tens of TBs of media. No thanks.

I know what works for me. I know what I am saving.
 
Speedster said:
So weird that my free 5TB from Microsoft works for me. I must be doing something wrong.
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yeah, no, 5TB is what I need every 3 months. I do not need a free 5TB account or 100 free 5TB accounts where they will catch you out and eventually cut you off. Anywhoooo, this is how they catch you and reel you in for the score. Just like Google and the rest.
 
ItherNiT said:
All y'all google users might want to have a look at the admin center, it looks like google is starting to give users time frames to reduce storage :(

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Now I have stress. My whole Plex setup is based on this unlimited space. I don't have a notice yet but if I get it I would need to shut down my main Plex server.

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cavedog said:
Where do you see that?
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cavedog said:
Now I have stress. My whole Plex setup is based on this unlimited space. I don't have a notice yet but if I get it I would need to shut down my main Plex server.

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I'm in the same boat, I've started giving notice to the people I share my plex with.

I saw some people on saltbox discord, complain they got emails stating the above. Looks like some of them are migrating to drobox. Which is around 90USD a month for the 3 required users.

I will probably give a skip on the dropbox, its to expensive for my liking.
 
ItherNiT said:


I'm in the same boat, I've started giving notice to the people I share my plex with.

I saw some people on saltbox discord, complain they got emails stating the above. Looks like some of them are migrating to drobox. Which is around 90USD a month for the 3 required users.

I will probably give a skip on the dropbox, its to expensive for my liking.
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Luckily I don't have that notice yet.

My plan B is probably 2 x realdebrid accounts mounted with itstoggle rclone fork and use that as a mount.

In this case it's all stored on realdebrid servers and I don't need to hoard it.

Plan C is downscaling amount of content and quality a bit and using OneDrive dev accounts
 
ItherNiT said:
Google workspace enterprise standard.

I noticed the red text after clicking on this window in google drive.
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I reached out to workspace support as supposedly I can request more storage, but they asked me to message them again in 48H.
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So looks like you keep your account after the grace period. It goes into read only mode.

Let me start filling my drive to 500tb at least if they cap it to read only mode I just need to find storage for the new files. OneDrive Dev can be a solution with rclone union for now.
 
I have not received that dreaded notice as of yet. also, on Enterprise Standard Plan.

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I understand why Google is clamping down on this. Between the 3 of us we are just short of 1 Petabyte of storage and that excludes the associated traffic it generates because it's not cold storage and we only pay a few dollars for it but damn this is sad.
 
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