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Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by boringg on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:17AM (#38628586)
Completely agree with this. If it's your "life's work" - "free tier" storage is 100% not the place to put it.

update: Not Free but feels like taking advantage of enterprise storage (0.07 $/TB) close to free.

Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by xoa on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:51AM (#38629153)
>free tier storage is 100% not the place to put it.

It's curious how hard you keep pushing in this flagrant lie in this thread when the article explicitly and repeatedly makes clear that he was paying Google for Enterprise level storage and on top of that did indeed have local first, except all that got taken from him by the FBI. Yet for some reason you insist on claiming he wasn't paying and was somehow abusing cloud-only. Why?

Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by boringg on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:59AM (#38629282)
Sorry correction. 20$ a month for an enterprise account formerly unlimited - (which is pretty much free considering how much data is being used ~ 7 cents a TB if my calcs are correct). Now that account is a 100$ / 25 TB. for 273 == 1000 $/month.

https://www.gamerevolution.com/guides/942777-no-more-unlimit...

Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by charcircuit on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:46AM (#38630014)
It required at least 5 users to unlock unlimited storage from what I see online. $20 * 5 = $100. Not that it makes what he's getting any less than a steal.
Re:Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journal... by bachmeier on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:27AM (#38628751)
From the article:

> Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account. This was a plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers for a while.