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0 pointsValentineC7y ago0 comments

Google Drive seems to have done this right — the file only counts towards the storage quota of the creator/"owner" of the file.

That particular approach does have some other issues though.

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israrkhan7y ago

What is wrong about Google Drive is that they count your email and drive storage in same quota. Few months ago, I exceeded my quota on Drive, and Gmail started giving me warning that I am running out of space, and will stop receiving emails if I do not upgrade, or free-up space.

xyzzyz7y ago

What is wrong about it? Would you prefer to have 2 GB shared quota, or separate quota of 1 GB each? With shared quota you have more flexibility as to what service you prefer to use more.

tjoff7y ago

Email is a critical service. Loosing emails because a misclick or uploaded a too big of file is not acceptable UX.

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