I don't know if I would say massively abused.

Some people abused it for sure.

But how many people put more data onto it than you could fit into a relatively normal NAS? I would think one off-the-shelf NAS is firmly within the scope of an unlimited data storage plan.

Edit: Did I say something dumb? I don't think putting movie rips on this service is inherently an abuse, regardless of whether you ripped it yourself or pirated it. It's the amount that matters.

> But how many people put more data onto it than you could fit into a relatively normal NAS? I would think one off-the-shelf NAS is firmly within the scope of an unlimited data storage plan.

A typical home NAS is probably on the order of 10TB. I have a feeling that would be OK for "unlimited" cloud storage, even if the provider took a loss on those customers. The problem users are certainly storing hundreds or thousands of TB. In the age of inexpensive 1GBit home internet connections, one could theoretically store ~10TB per day.

Not practically, Google has enforced a 750 gigabytes uploaded per 24 hour period per Google drive account limit for awhile.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/172541?hl=en#:~:text=Ind....

There are single hard drives that store 16TB, and most pre made NAS boxes have at least two drive bays.

To be fair those are VERY new and 10TB is probably an accurate estimate of the /average/ NAS user. I have 150TB (I am not average) and the max drive size I have is 8TB right now. Similarly, I'm about to set my dad up with a Synology which I'll be putting 3x8TB for 16TB usable. I even offered to put in 16's but he didn't need the space and didn't want to pay the extra to get it (especially since he can upgrade later if desired)

16TB is very new, but 12TB and 14TB have been around for a couple years.

While an average NAS might have 10TB, I wouldn't even call it particularly high end to have a 6 bay NAS with 50+TB of usable space.

FWIW, they said nothing about shared drives, so all of the businesses that were/are going to need unlimited storage will be able to use shared drives for sharing files with their team.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/7212025?hl=en

Are you suggesting that shared drives are exempt from the storage limit? If they said nothing about them I would expect the opposite.

This storage limit for workspace business/enterprise is a single pool across an entire organization.

I have a unique perspective with having a GSuite for Nonprofits organization, and even though we technically have 30GB of storage per user[0]:

> Unlimited users with 30 GB cloud storage each

We also have shared drives which don't have a (number of bytes-based) storage limit, so I can't say exactly what happens to new Workspace Business tier orgs but I don't imagine shared drives will have a total storage limit.

One thing I can say though is that there is a 400,000 file limit in shared drives: https://i.judge.sh/usable/Cake/chrome_9esxXJLYtr.png.

0: https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/g-suite/#!#gsuit...

I have seen some video sites run their video streams from it. I was wondering how they are not able to detect it.

Ha, sharing it with more than a handful of people would definitely be an abuse.

Though from what I remember they recently drastically cut down the ability to share files, installing caps that most people would never hit, so it's not like they needed to cut the storage amount to fix that problem.