Over the past few years, Google has been trying to reign in runaway storage consumption for its Google Apps for Education tier. For faculty and research groups who found PSU’s google storage to be a convenient and limitless resource, that era is now over.

OIT now has to ensure that the university stays below a fixed shared institutional storage quota for the PSU Google Apps.  Starting September 19th, 2024, they will implement the following storage limits to PSU Google (aka “Poogle”) accounts.

  • User accounts storage limit (faculty, staff, students, affiliate accounts) – 200 GB (gigabytes)

  • Shared Drives (used to be “team drives) – 10 GB (with 500GB available on request at no additional charge)

If you are over these quotas, you may have already been contacted by OIT about your storage usage. On the quota implementation date in September, OIT will grant people over the limit a one-time “legacy” quota bump that will allow users to continue to function with a little extra storage headroom – about 20%.

In the future, if you exceed your quota, faculty and staff will be able to request additional storage over the 200 GB limit. Departments will also be able to request quota increases for shared drives. The additional storage will be free if PSU is still under the storage budget. Students will not have the option of increasing their storage capacity.

If PSU runs over the storage limit, OIT will approach faculty, staff, and departments for an index to pay for the additional storage.