You need a monthly Google apps/workspace subscription. This doesn’t necessarily mean you shouldn’t do it, or flex this fact to people, just be aware of the situation. I’m more than happy to run 100s of TBs locally if I need to, but right now I don’t, so I won’t.Īlways be aware that this service can be pulled from you at the drop of a hat. If you feel like this is too risky then this isn’t for you. As of the writing of this post, Google currently does allow unlimited storage for a small price per month which can be used for what we’re going to be doing.
And, yes, they might do, and probably will at some point, but that’s a problem for another time.
I can already hear the screeching from so many people right now, “but gOOGLe wIll jUSt end UnLiMiTED stOrAGe And tHeN yOU’LL SeEE”. This is conditional on Google continuing this service. I go into a lot of detail on some of these steps and applications used, this is not a ‘wham bam thank you mam’ blog post to copy and paste some stuff and have it running (although that may well work.) If you don’t mind rambling and want to understand what is happening and why, this is the post for you. There are a few caveats explained below, reoccurring costs and a variety of ways to achieve this, but this will be the Muffin way. This post is going to walk through how to create a Plex server with a Google drive backend for ‘unlimited’ storage.