A BIG thank you to you, @DZMM! I had heard from various friends that were doing this - but never thought about it until I saw your post. I didn't really get to take FULL advantage of this, as I changed homes and my internet upload speeds were painfully slow.
It was fun while it lasted, but Google is known for killing things. They announced at the start of the year that Education accounts were losing unlimited storage, so it was only a matter of time before they came for us.
I am slowly repatriating my data back to my array.
Anyone else notice that Google's Usage is vastly overstated? My usage showed 60TB used when I started downloading. It's dropped to 30TB now, but my local array only used up 17TB. I ran out and got a bunch of drives thinking I need 60TB free on my array. Maybe I don't