Welcome to our forum, @Victor_Boyi, and thanks for adding your voice here. Could you share where / how you heard about Google’s plans for storage? I’ll add your +1 to the topic on our tracker.
Although my last reply on this thread still holds true, it’s important to note that we also back up and sync PDFs to our own (S3) servers, so one can choose not to sync to Google Drive without fear of losing files – they would still be available from the library interface (and across devices).
Hello @vincente, here is the original post on google’s website saying that schools will now be limited to 100TB from July this year: 1. Overview of Google Workspace for Education storage - Google Workspace Admin Help
Here is the same information on some schools’ websites:
Uni of Arizona:
https://it.arizona.edu/google-storage
Others include (a) Case Western Reserve: h-t-t-p-s://case.edu/utech/about/utech-news/unlimited-google-storage-will-end-july-2024-all-cwru-users, (b) University of Colorado: h-t-t-p-s://oit.colorado.edu/news/google-ending-unlimited-storage, (c) Florida Atlantic University: h-t-t-p-s://m.fau.edu/signed_in/device/large-spider/news/detail?feed=staff_announcements&id=c3d8d80b-2d74-538b-ba4e-82beb9ca40e7, (d) University of Washington: h-t-t-p-s://itconnect.uw.edu/connect/productivity-platforms/google-productivity-platform/uw-google-changes-project/, (e) UC Berkeley: h-t-t-p-s://bconnected.berkeley.edu/projects/storage-changes, (f) University of Alabama: h-t-t-p-s://oit.ua.edu/services/email/google/
PS I scrambled the https prefix in the second part because the forum will not allow me to post more than two links.