Faculty and Staff Storage Changes
This article applies to: Cornell Google Workspace for Faculty and Staff , Strategic Storage Initiative
Faculty and staff can keep or obtain a Cornell Google account with Gmail and Google Drive.
To moderate growth that could have translated into unsustainable costs when Google begins charging Cornell more as storage increases, in 2022 caps were added to Cornell Google Drive accounts. The caps were set above the storage in the account at that time.
Accounts with less than 15 Gigabytes (GB) of storage in Google Drive were given a cap of 15 GB.
Accounts with more than 15 GB of storage in Google Drive were given a cap greater than the amount that was stored in the account when the caps were imposed.
A few very large Drive accounts may be contacted by CIT Collaboration and Utility Services to see if any other storage services available at Cornell might be better suited to their needs.
Action Steps
- Regularly review the storage you have in Google Drive on your Drive Storage page. (If you have another Google account, such as a personal account, make sure that you are looking at the Drive Storage page for your Cornell account by clicking your profile icon in the upper right. Your Cornell Google account is the one using your netid@cornell.edu email address.)
- Remove content that does not need to be in the cloud anymore. Google has tips on managing storage.
- If you’re getting near your storage cap, have removed files you don’t need anymore, and still require more space for education, research, or Cornell business projects, you can request a higher cap.
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