How do I upgrade my Google Drive storage?

Google Drive, a famous cloud service, focuses on cloud storage for many years. As we all know, Google Drive provides 15GB free cloud storage for each free Google account. However, the cloud storage space is shared with some other Google apps including Gmail and Google Photos. As a result, the 15GB free cloud storage is probably insufficient for you. You might need to upgrade Google Drive storage to save your data.

To upgrade Google storage, we have prepared 2 methods for you. And one of them is a free method. If you do not want to pay for more cloud storage, please go to the second method directly.

2 ways to upgrade Google Drive storage

Commonly, when you need to upgrade Google Drive storage, the first idea you have is to upgrade your Google Drive subscription plan to an advanced one. Of course, it is a useful method. But there is another method for you to increase Google Drive storage for free. Please keep reading and get detailed steps to upgrade your Google Drive storage.

Way 1. Pay for advanced Google Drive plans

If you are a free Google Drive account, your 15GB free cloud storage space will be used up in a short time. So a direct way is to choose an advanced Google Drive subscription plan with larger cloud storage space. Follow the easy steps to do it:

1. Head to the Google Drive website, and log into your Google Drive account.

2. In the left taskbar, you can see the usage of your cloud storage space under Storage. Click on the Buy storage button here.

3. You can see different plans for Google Drive upgrade storage price. Choose a suitable plan according to your need. After you finish paying for it, you will have more cloud storage it provides.

Way 2. Upgrade Google Drive storage for free

As you create or save more and more files, folders and other data on Google Drive, it will cost you much to get more Google Drive storage. For this, we prepare a way to upgrade Google Drive storage for free: merging unlimited Google Drive accounts together in to a combined cloud with unlimited Google storage.

For this, we highly recommend you to use a free cloud backup service called CBackup. There is a combine cloud storage feature in CBackup. It will help you merge many cloud drive accounts easily even if you are a free account.

CBackup supports many cloud drives including Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. You can choose to merge multiple accounts from the same cloud drive, or merge accounts from different cloud drives.

Now, you can refer to the easy guideline to upgrade Google Drive to unlimited cloud space via CBackup:

1. Download and install the CBackup desktop application, then sign up for a new account and log into it.

2. Click on the Storage button in the left panel. Select Google Drive and click on Authorize Now. You can add as many Google Drive accounts as you have.

3. Click on the Storage tab, then press + Add Combined Cloud.

4. Tick the Google Drive accounts that you want to merge, and then click on Next. After determining the order of your Google Drive accounts, choose Combine.

Enjoy combined Google Drive cloud

Now you have a combined cloud containing all your Google Drive accounts in CBackup. You can enjoy 100GB Google Drive storage or more cloud storage for free by creating backup to combined cloud.

Here is a simple guide to back up your files, folders, programs, hard drives, or even the entire computer to combined Google Drive cloud directly:

1. Run the CBackup desktop app, and click on the Backup icon. Choose Backup PC to Combined Cloud.

2. On this page, select data from your computer as source. Choose Combined Cloud as destination. After that, click Start Backup to enjoy the larger cloud storage in combined cloud.

You can also use some other features in CBackup for free:

Backup to public cloud: You can back up files to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. directly.

Free cloud storage: CBackup gives each account 5GB of free cloud storage in its CBackup Cloud.

Cloud to cloud backup or sync: With the feature, you can transfer or backup data between different cloud drive accounts on one interface in CBackup directly and quickly.

When you use CBackup to back up files to the cloud, there is no limitation on file size and uploading speed. Before you start a backup or sync task in CBackup, you can enable some settings to make your task much easier including Scheduler, Email Notification, File Filter.

How to free up more Google Drive storage: 3 tips

Sometimes, your Google Drive storage is full but you do not need to upgrade Google Drive storage. Here are 3 common tips to free up more Google Drive storage. Once you find that there is not enough storage in Google Drive, you can try them first. If they do not work, just go to upgrade your Google Drive storage in the 2 ways above.

Tip 1. Clean up Google Drive trash

It is possible that you never empty your Google Drive Trash folder. It will save your deleted files for 30 days, which will take up your Google Drive storage. So you can go to clean up your Google Drive Trash folder if you do not need the files in it anymore.

1. On the Google Drive website, log into your account.

2. Choose Trash on the left menu. Choose the drop-down icon and click on Empty trash. Then choose Delete forever.

Tip 2. Choose Storage saver in Google Photos

You can go to free up Google Storage from Google Photos as well. If all your photos and videos are uploaded to Google Photos with their original size, they will occupy lots of storage. It is advisable for you to enable the Storage saver setting to free up more storage space.

1. Navigate to the Google Photos page. Under Settings, choose Storage saver in the UPLOAD SIZE FOR PHOTOS & VIDEOS part.

Tip 3. Clean up Gmail files

If you use Gmail as your main email platform, it is necessary to clean up files in it. Cleaning up large attachments that you do not need in your Gmail will free up Google Drive space for you.

1. Go to the Gmail page. Input has:attachment larger:10M in the research box. Then click the Search icon. Choose the emails that you do not need to delete.

2. After that, please go to the Bin folder to empty them completely.

To sum up

We have introduced 2 ways to upgrade Google Drive storage effectively. If you do not want to pay much for more cloud storage, you can try the free cloud service called CBackup to merge unlimited Google Drive accounts together into a combined cloud. Another 3 tips to free up Google Drive storage are also provided in the post.