Sooo my university google email account is scheduled to be deleted on November 8th (1 week from today). I have used that account for 7 or 8 years and it’s connected to my Google Photos which is (was) unlimited due to the student status. I have 200,000 GB worth of photos and videos stored there (it’s been my primary backup for the almost decade I’ve had it) and I need to move it or lose it. Any suggestions for online unlimited cloud services? I’m not super worried about initial costs to set up I just want to know that it works and won’t delete my account or anything or consider me as abusing the unlimited storage. If such a thing doesn’t exist any suggestions for what to do lol There’s no way to recover the account because the university is essentially getting rid of all of their Google sponsored platforms.
Honestly, the best you can do right now is to select a handful of your best collection and download it using campus network (get your most trusty professor if possible to borrow his office to store your system while downloading it). 200 TB over 7 days would require something in the neighborhood of 300 MByte per second minimum (and 5 HDD running simultaneously to avoid bottleneck). That’s basically asking for the nigh-impossible: 2.5 Gbit (I suggest going for 4 Gbit) over network that you cannot really trust its throughput
Another option I could suggest is to rent something like Mega for a month or two while you download everything you can at your connection speed