Google Workspace Storage Purchase
Find out how to get additional storage beyond your identified Google quota and other alternate options.
UC San Diego offers both local and cloud-based resources that are well-suited to support various collaboration needs individuals and department groups have for additional storage. Below is a general overview of available campus services. Your divisional IT support team is available to help tailor these solutions to specific needs. Please reach out so they can advise you on use scenarios that match your needs and provide additional assistance and support.
Storage Purchase Process
Staff and Faculty members can request an increase of their Google account's standard 2GB storage to 100GB. Use this ITS Service Desk request form to upgrade your faculty/staff account to 100GB. Please note that this license is only offered to Faculty and Staff, it is not for student use.
Additional storage is only available for purchase after exceeding 100GB. Departments/divisions/units can purchase additional 10TB blocks of storage, for either individual user accounts or Shared Drives, at Google's current annual rate of $1440.00.
Submit this ITS Service Desk request form to indicate which Google storage option you want to order and be prepared to provide the appropriate funding source information (Project and Task, Split with Percentage). See below for process details.
Option 1: Purchasing storage for an individual account
This is common for situations where your Google email is over or approaching 100GB and you can not delete additional emails. When you make a purchase of storage for an individual account, this will increase your storage quota by the number of 10TB segments you purchase for 1 year. You will get a reminder email to renew (purchase again) after 11 months. Note that your storage quota will be reduced to the standard amount if the renewal is not received.
To make the purchases, open the request form, complete the fields, and submit.
- Perform Single Sign-On login to reach the support portal
- Select the “Google Storage Quota Increase” Request Type
- Click the "Options" link
- Provide storage request description and details
- Select the Google storage option you want
- Enter number of 10 TB segments (total will be calculated)
- Enter Billing Information
- Review the summary of your order
- Click Submit
Option 2: Purchasing storage for Shared Drives
This is common for situations where your MyDrive is over quota. The purchase will result in moving your MyDrive to a Shared Drive (this is easy to do). Shared Drives will be managed within Google Org Units (a kind of container) which most divisions and departments have set up. When additional storage is purchased, it is assigned to the Org Units and flows down to the Shared Drives within them. For Shared Drives to receive this additional storage quota, they need to be placed in these Org Units.
If you have questions about this setup for your own department/division/lab, please first reach out to your local IT support teams, as they may already have this set up for you. Otherwise, reach out to the ITS Service Desk and the Messaging and Collaboration Team will work with you on first-time setup.
To make the purchases, open the request form, complete the fields, and submit.
- Perform Single Sign-On login to reach the support portal
- Select the “Google Storage Quota Increase” Request Type
- Click the "Options" link
- Provide storage request description and details
- Select the Google storage option you want
- Enter number of 10 TB segments (total will be calculated)
- Provide Shared Drive ORG unit or other details
- Enter Billing Information
- Review the summary of your order
- Click Submit
Need more help?
Need help? Contact your departmental technical support or the ITS Service Desk, (858) 246-4357 or campus extension 6-HELP.