Google offers free and unlimited Drive storage for Students

Google on Tuesday announced a new version of Drive that is free for students. Described as an "infinitely large, ultra-secure and entirely free bookbag for the 21st century," the new Drive for Education offering will be available to all Google Apps for Education customers at no charge.


The drive account includes unlimited storage (with a 5TB per-file size limit large enough for anything that can be stored) plus access to the Google Apps Vault for your message archiving needs.

Google Drive is so secured that, every file uploaded to the service is encrypted both while it travels from your device to the company's data centers, and also while at rest on Google's servers.

"We want educators and students who use Google Apps for Education to be able to focus on the learning experience — not the technology that supports it," Schrom wrote. "With Drive for Education, users can put an end to worries about storage limits and more easily maintain a safe, effective and compliant learning environment."

The move comes after Google in May unveiled Classroom, a free tool in the Google Apps for Education Suite that aims to make teachers' lives a little easier and more organized. Classroom is integrated with Drive to automatically organize assignments into folders. Also available for download on the Chrome app store.