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When I first signed up (years ago, even before "Google Workspace Enterprise Standard", I got further grandfathered in from a GSuite plan) they were promising unlimited storage. I don't have any ready proof for this (except screenshots of gdrive etc saying I have unlimited data), but if I had a 5TB limit this whole time, I clearly wouldn't be able to upload 400TB to gdrive through mostly conventional means.
They changed from unlimited to 5TB/seat years ago (but they rolled out the enforcement very gradually: I heard that several friends got hit by this last year) and I was given notification to cut down my use 2 months ago (with threats of making it read-only), but one does not simply go from 400TB to 5TB. I wanted to try my chances on it staying read-only and google stopping nagging me about it.
Chances were not in my favor, and the read-only deadline was yesterday, and it changed instead to "we'll delete all your data in a month".
I'm not complaining (if anything I'm happy that I got a mad deal on storage for years), but it is indeed a matter of "unlimited" does not mean "unlimited forever".
They changed from unlimited to 5TB/seat years ago (but they rolled out the enforcement very gradually: I heard that several friends got hit by this last year) and I was given notification to cut down my use 2 months ago (with threats of making it read-only), but one does not simply go from 400TB to 5TB. I wanted to try my chances on it staying read-only and google stopping nagging me about it.
Chances were not in my favor, and the read-only deadline was yesterday, and it changed instead to "we'll delete all your data in a month".
I'm not complaining (if anything I'm happy that I got a mad deal on storage for years), but it is indeed a matter of "unlimited" does not mean "unlimited forever".