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crusoe t1_jegc0hx wrote

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users by OutlandishnessOk2452

If you have TB of storage, which Google lets you pay for, that means you can't use most of it, at MB per file...

Google premium offers 2TB, 5 million files means every file needs to be at least 500k to make full use of it.

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Obsidiath t1_jegfvpc wrote

People tend to vastly overestimate the file size of simple text-based files. Sure, 5 million files take up a LOT of space if it's all uncompressed photo or video files.

Assuming uncompressed text, using (mostly) exclusively Latin characters, 500k is already ~ 100.000 words.

The Hobbit is less than 100.000 words. The complete Lord of the Rings series, The Hobbit Included, is around 560.000 words.

5 million files is nothing when you're storing plain old text files. Won't even be remotely close to 2TB, which is 2 million Megabytes, or between 3 to 4 million times the total word count of Lord of the Rings.

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