About 89% of student accounts and 83% of faculty and staff accounts contained less than 15 GB. The cap was added above the amount stored in the account at that time.Īccounts that contained less than 15 Gigabytes (GB) were capped at 15 GB. This growth could quickly become economically unsustainable now that Google is charging for storage. The cap is intended to hold off the growth in storage that naturally occurs when storage is unlimited. In June 2022, a storage cap was added to faculty, student, and staff Cornell Google Drive accounts.

When reducing storage, bear in mind that video and image files can be significantly larger than most other types of files.

Your Cornell Google account is the one using your email address.) Google also provides recommendations for how to manage files in your Google Drive storage. (If you have another Google account, such as a personal account, make sure you're looking at the Drive Storage page for your Cornell account by clicking your profile icon in the upper right. You can see how much storage you are using and how much space you have before reaching your storage cap at your Drive Storage page.

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