Google drive has extremely generous limitations:
- 750GB upload per 24 hours
- 10TB download per 24 hours
WARNING
Getting around these limits with service accounts on a team drive you bought from ebay and loading it up with 400TB of encrypted data is not financially viable for google to do. Paying $12 is not financially viable for google. The entire thing is a numbers game and once it is not financially viable we will lose our one unlimited provider and be back to industry standard pricing of $5/TB.
Also believe it or not, its not a storage problem for google. Its a electrical one. Google has the ability to rent time on machinery leased from a HDD manufacturer, plural. They can print as many hdds as they want, and considering the raw materials a hdd is not terribly expensive. The power to keep them spinning is. It is also the electrical requirement to dissipate the heat they generate, as a data-center spends nearly half their electrical budget on cooling.