What are the storage limits for Berkeley Google accounts?

Current information: 

The final storage limits will be applied in multiple phases.

  • July 5, 2023
    • All newly created individual accounts will have a 50 GB limit applied
    • All individual accounts with 35 GB of content or less will have a 50 GB limit applied.
    • All individual accounts with 36 - 150 GB of content will have a 150 GB extended limit applied.
    • All individual accounts with more than 150 GB of content will maintain their current limit until January 24, 2024
  • January 24, 2024 -  all remaining individual accounts will have a 150 GB limit applied.

Information regarding SPA Drives and Shared drives will be coming soon.


Information from January 25, 2023: All newly created accounts on or after January 25, 2023 will be given a 150 GB quota. Also on January 25, 2023 existing accounts will have higher “containment” quotas applied to provide ample time for their content to be assessed while maintaining day to day operations. These quotas are simply to contain the growth of our Google storage usage on campus. We will be implementing lower quotas later in the project, and we are still determining the final quotas. More specific dates and guidance will be provided closer to the fall semester of 2023.

Containment Quota Structure

Current Storage Usage Range

Containment Quota Applied

0 - 100 GB

150 GB

100 - 175 GB

250 GB

175 - 350 GB

500 GB

350 - 700 GB

1 TB

700 GB - 3.5 TB

5 TB

3.5 TB - 17.5 TB

25 TB

17.5 TB - 70 TB

100 TB

Over 70 TB

500 TB

Shared Drives

All shared drives have been given a containment quota of 500 GB.