People who find themselves holding on to free G Suite legacy accounts will quickly lose their particular person storage allotment perks. In an e mail seen by The Verge, Google has began informing G Suite legacy free version plan customers that they are going to be switched to pooled storage that’s “shared throughout all customers inside your group” beginning Might 1st.
G Suite was rebranded as Workspace in 2020. G Suite legacy free version, which Google stopped providing in 2012, offers every person with 15GB of free allotted storage and was provided for private use — making it ultimate for households or teams that must share a collective area. Current customers have been permitted to entry Workspace companies at no extra cost, however Google says it’s now making this transformation as a result of pooled storage offers a “easier and extra versatile method to handle storage.”
“Google Workspace clients have had the advantage of pooled storage for years, and now we’re rolling it out to customers with this legacy providing,” Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson instructed The Verge.
No motion is required for the change in line with Google, and customers can’t decide out of the pooled storage transition. The entire quantity of storage allotted to your complete G Suite account gained’t be decreased, but when extra storage is required then it may be bought “at a reduction” beginning at increments of 100GB, which generally prices $15. Google hasn’t specified how massive this low cost shall be.
Storage limitations can nonetheless be set for every person inside the G Suite account after the transition to forestall the collective storage pool from being hogged by particular person customers. These limits must be manually assigned by an account admin, nevertheless.
The transition creates extra work for admins preferring the established order, nevertheless it’s a useful change for teams that wish to share underused storage allocations with different customers.
