7/9/2023 0 Comments New google drive plansSay that the free tier is good for one leg of a storage strategy, with another being on-prem and the third a cheap, slow data lake, and you can keep going through a lot of disruption, including the permanent removal of one of those three and the temporary failure of another. It was very tempting for academics to assume they'd have no storage costs, either for hardware or management, when costing a project for a grant application. If you're not thinking two steps ahead, no matter what you're doing, you're vulnerable, especially with storage. One Twitter researcher put it like this: if you're thinking two steps ahead, this will not be a surprise. But there was lots of fraud, with "unlimited" Google accounts changing hands online for a tenner or so, and while a lab needing 100TB might have been rare in 2014, those rules of engagement have changed too. As students advance, their use of a particular educational account may increase in size but reduce in duration, which would seem to naturally limit Google's exposure.
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