Do you use Google Drive ?

Now when we are moving into the digital world and this also asked for the requirement of cloud storage because this is needed to keep our data and documentation online. There are so many platforms offering cloud storage but Google is quite popular because you talk for 15 GB of free storage by default to all users. Although this is a combined experience between email photos and Google Drive for normal users, it can last for a couple of years.

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Recently Google has made some changes to its photo application and now I need back up will be counted against your story so this 15 GB of storage will be used even for photo upload in standards size. Surely this is one of the steps that the company has taken to get more paid subscriptions off the Google one and this way they are trying to generate more revenue rather than offering free to their users. Still, I believe that Google is the only company that offers quite a good amount of stories for free however I am not aware of any other name that can offer 15 GB of stories for free including email etcetera.

The company offers all users 15 GB of free storage on Google Drive. Google recently changed its free storage policy earlier this year. What this means is that any new photos and videos you back up will count toward the free 15GB of storage that comes with every Google account. If you have exhausted your 15 GB free storage, you can purchase additional storage to continue backing up content on Google Drive. In India, users can choose from monthly and yearly plans. Google offers 100 GB storage space for Rs 130 per month

I checked my account storage and realized that I am also heading toward the end of free storage however I have 17 GB instead of 15 GB but its also 77% used. Then I clicked on manage storage to see what is there that consumes this storage.

Here I can see that I have an almost equal amount of data in drive, Gmail, and photos that count toward my free storage of 17 GB.

I have 17GB instead of 15 GB because I got 2GB extra for security check activity and it is a promo event by Google. If it was then 15 then I am left with 1.75 GB only and good that I have an additional 2 GB that is helping me now.

I have stopped uploading unnecessary data for now because if I do then I would have to go for the paid plan and minimum I need to pay INR 1300 for a year. This is not so expensive as compared to iCloud and for this amount, I get 100GB of space which I think is more than enough for me.

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I will try to use my google account normally and once I am left with less than 1 GB then I will go for one year plan and will pay INR 1300 which is almost 20 USD

Thank you so much

Images where the source is not provided are taken from my google account