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lambdaloop | 2 years ago

Google drive is great for storing research data.

I work it in a fly neuroscience lab and we use it to store all our electrophysiology and video data. Each person in the lab is storing on average 5TB of data, and the lab as a whole stores 100TB.

The graphical user interface combined with unlimited storage for Google Workspaces is essentially an unbeatable deal. Researchers can upload their data easily through the interface. Any custom solution based on S3 or equivalent would take some time to teach and more time to maintain. Also, we're paying about $200 / month total to store 100TB of data in the cloud, which is hard to beat with other services.

I tried setting up a single account for the whole lab once, but we ran into the above 5M file limit, so we just have individual accounts per researcher and it's mostly fine for now.

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secabeen|2 years ago

> Also, we're paying about $200 / month total to store 100TB of data in the cloud, which is hard to beat with other services.

You should expect this to go away soon. I support science researchers and our unlimited storage option is going away in the coming months. Options for purchasing space are limited, and not cheap.

lambdaloop|2 years ago

This is with a regular Google Workspace plan, independent of the university-wide research plan. The research plan unlimited storage is indeed going away for us as well ( https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/software-com... ), which is why we migrated to our own private Google Workspace.

I haven't heard about the google workspace enterprise unlimited storage going away anytime soon, although perhaps you know something I don't?

remus|2 years ago

How expensive are we talking? Looking at the workspace pricing page the enterprise plan gets you a pooled 5TB per user with the option to add more by talking to them, does that mean you have to pay more for the extra storage?

ukd1|2 years ago

Do y'all back this up? If so, how?

lambdaloop|2 years ago

Everyone has their own machine with a hard drive containing their data. Google drive is the secondary cloud backup.