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 edition, which Google stopped providing in 2012, supplies every person with 15GB of free allotted storage and was supplied for private use — making it supreme for households or teams that must share a collective area. Present customers have been permitted to entry Workspace companies at no extra cost, however Google says it’s now making this variation as a result of pooled storage supplies a “easier and extra versatile solution to handle storage.”
“Google Workspace prospects have had the good thing about pooled storage for years, and now we’re rolling it out to customers with this legacy providing,” Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson informed The Verge.
No motion is required for the swap in accordance with Google, and customers can not choose out of the pooled storage transition. The entire quantity of storage allotted to all the G Suite account gained’t be diminished, but when extra storage is required then it may be bought “at a reduction” beginning at increments of 100GB, which usually prices $15. Google hasn’t specified how giant this low cost will probably 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, however it’s a helpful change for teams that wish to share underused storage allocations with different customers.