Google reduces free storage

[Bradley Prior]

Google reduces free storage

Google lured billions of consumers to its digital services by offering copious free cloud storage.

That’s beginning to change. [Bloomberg]

 

[RaptorSA]

Twitter twat:
"The way I abuse google drive 15GB free cloud storage, I now have 7 gmail email address"
and then you read...
"There’s a free 15 GB tier — enough room for about 5,000 photos, depending on the resolution. Then it costs $1.99 a month for 100 GB and up from there"

Goeie god people are entitled dipsh*ts.

 

[backstreetboy]

Terrible headline they're not dropping the 15gb free. People should just delete old mails. The 1gb I get with my secure mail provider is more then enough.

 

[FlashSA]

I pay for 200GB Google One for my family video's and photo's and I pay for 100GB Google One for office daily cloud backups.

My Gmail component is 37GB and being able to search through over a decade of email is awesome for business productivity.

 

[cavedog]

Pfff the 15GB storage abuse is nothing compared to the petabytes of data hosted on unlimited gsuite and shared drives.

In fact petabytes is a bit small probably better to refer to it as the exabytes of storage.

 

[krycor]

I pay for 200GB Google One for my family video's and photo's and I pay for 100GB Google One for office daily cloud backups.

My Gmail component is 37GB and being able to search through over a decade of email is awesome for business productivity.

Do something similar.. 200GB Google One for emails and back up drive & photos (free tier). And we store a LOT of pics.. just on Apple iCloud Drive, we have >250Gb and growing fast (now that gave in to 2TB account.

 

[Swa]

Just delete old mails. Unlike what the tagline says there is a reason not to archive everything so people should stop listening to the marketing bs that was probably Google's plan. There's also other storage options if you don't want to store every photo at the original raw size but really people should realise that not everything is supposed to be online.