SO I just realised today that all USQ Alumni Students have google drive with unlimited storage.
I graduated about 5 years ago and I still have access to all my emails and online storage today.
I called up to see what the longevity of this would be and whether this would be taken away from me at some point,
The IT staff said that it's unlikely that the partnership would end but it isn't likely to end any time soon.
Mine gave me debt also.
I am also an alumni - I assume you can't link this to your normal email though (or original resolution photo backup)
I did this for a long time with my Griffith account. Stored original quality and everything. Worked fine.
I feel like this isn't worth using compared to free or paid options.
If you put any substantial amount of storage on there, the admins will notice and can just end your account.
A real Google Drive unlimited account doesn't have anyone monitoring your files/storage.
I called up the IT department and they said that there's no real monitoring done to see how much students are using to restrict them.
No real monitoring done at this point…
There might be a new IT guy, or a change in department policy, or the graphs in Google Drive showing that someone is using way too much.
I'm not really seeing the benefit on something you could lose in seconds.
All users in GSuite Education have unlimited storage, so there's not really a 'using way too much'
@Motordom: Correct, but Gsuite education admins regularly go hard on students using too much storage, most likely because at a certain point its clearly using it for the wrong purpose.
@samfisher5986: I don't see what the purpose of that would be? The unis don't have to pay extra for unlimited so they'd have no reason to go hard on someone using a lot.
Just a heads up, I had a school Google account that had close at the beginning of this year. It had unlimited storage as well.
When I used the account, I created a shared folder with my main google account and uploaded files using the School account. While the school account is closed, the files (uploaded by the closed school account) are still active on the shared folder and I can still access and download them, not accounting against the storage on my main account.
This is most likely a Google specific function, so it should work with all Education accounts.
TL/DR: Upload as much as you want, the files in a shared folder shouldn't disappear even if the account is closed. (or the folder itself)
Joke of a uni, even Trump University is better than this fraud
Not sure what your issue is - got my degree with honours and found the whole uni great (I'm melb based and have previously been to both RMIT and Monash and found it on par with those)
Need to lay off the salt buddy.
All GSuite accounts (other than the no free tier which is no longer available) come with this. That means any school or business using GSuite will give you this benefit, just keep in mind the school/business could disable your account at any time if they wanted to. I'm actually surprised USQ Alumni get to keep their account, usually they get disabled once you graduate as it costs them money to keep them.
What is Alumni? How to become?
Anyone want to share their login or sell me a Google Drive account ;)
Not much of a bargain (just kidding), my university gave me depression with my degree.