As of December 31, 2022, the amount of storage available to ASU users of Google Drive was drastically reduced, significantly reducing its suitability for research data storage. ASU Enterprise Technology has managed the transition process for ASU and more Google changed its Education Workspace Storage offering from Unlimited storage to a limit of 100 Terabytes (TB) on the free Education Workspace tier. Under Google’s new Higher Education offering, ASU as an enterprise will have 100 TB of available storage across all users in our Google environment. To comply with these new storage limits, ASU Enterprise Technology is working with support units across the university to reduce ASU’s storage footprint. More information can be found on ET’s FAQon Google drive storage. .
Currently, Google is offering a grace period for accounts that are over-quota. However, excess data will be subject to deletion following this grace period on May 29, 2023. In order to avoid the deletion of over-quota data, ASU community members must migrate or archive excess files as soon as possible. The following are the options for data storage needs that exceed the storage cap set by Google:
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