I volunteer with a medical education non-profit. We need online storage - does anyone have experience of the options?
I suspect google workspace is the likely answer, but keen to consider other options - teams, for eg. has to be low cost, & accessible across the world.
Thanks
If you’re non-profit, you can get Google Workspace for free. The free tier, which is what my small non-profit uses, comes with 100 TB of storage. (Note: that’s 100 TB shared across all your users, not per user). I don’t know if the offer is limited to US 501(c)3 non-profits or not, but I assume that if the organization itself is a 501(c)3, the users can be anywhere.
We’re small, so the free non-profit tier meets our needs, and then some.
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+1 on Google Workspace.
I use it for the non-profit where I volunteer – fairly easy to set up and manage.
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What is the purpose of the “storage”? Backup? Sync? Application data sharing? And for how many people? What security risks are you concerned about?
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These are really important questions. So far, we’re only using our non-profit Google Workspace as shared cloud storage for (primarily) archival material that someone may need to reference from time-to-time. All of that material is stored on a regularly backed-up external SSD that could be handed off to another volunteer should the need arise.
We’re not hugely worried about security - it’s for photos, lecture notes, & shared projects, none of which are top secret. Also need to be able to share some lecture notes with course participants.
Can’t imagine that we’d run out of 100TB very soon…
re security, if someone accidentally or deliberately changes/deletes stuff and nobody notices for a while do you care?