To learn more, view NC State's Google Workspace Storage Project web page.

Quotas for campus accounts

Going over your assigned quota will result in limited functionality of Google Workspaces services. Please see What happens if I go over my Google storage quota? for more information. 

Storage Quotas

• Faculty & staff - 100 GB
• Students - 15 GB
• Extension Only County Collaborators - 100 GB (UP08)
• Emeritus faculty - 100 GB (UP10)
• “Other” - 15 GB (all other UP classifications such as retirees, vendors, part-time, and temp employees)
• Generic accounts - 5 GB 
• Shared Drives - 15 GB per shared drive
• Consumer Photo service will be turned OFF for all new accounts or any account that has no consumed photos storage.

For information on managing files and understanding quota messages, see our Knowledge Base articles for Google storage.

Additional Storage options

To make appropriate choices on which storage option(s) to use, you need to know your data:

• Understand the data types you are storing, such as videos, photos, or raw data.
• Understand the data sensitivity of your data. See Storage Locations for University Data: By Data Classification.
• Consider the frequency of access.
• Consider the persons needing access.

Research Storage Options

Start local - check in with your local IT support staff on any options they may have for research storage. Information on central research storage options is below:

Research Storage web page

• Research Storage service summary/documentation
• Faculty can request up to 30TB of free storage and should consider this option for their research projects. Graduate students working with these faculty can also be given access to this storage space.
  • One of the recommendations from the report was to review and improve the usability of OIT’s Research Storage service.

Try out the Storage Finder, a tool that provides "at a glance" suggested storage locations based on general input from the user or researcher.