Storage
Storage Refund Policy
Permanent.org will refund storage that has not been used in the following cases outlined in this document. We will refund storage in units of gigabytes, rounded down, up to the storage that remains unused in your account. The refund can be requested ...
How to Gift Storage to Another Person
Sharing Permanent with friends, family, colleagues, and community members is a wonderful gift. Your loved one can get started preserving their stories and their legacy with their gift. You can gift storage to an existing Permanent member. You can ...
How to Assign Yourself as the Archive Payer
An archive payer is the person who pays for all uploads to a particular archive. Without an archive payer, Permanent deducts storage from the uploader's total storage. With an archive payer, Permanent deducts storage from the archive payer's total ...
Redeem a Storage Code
A Permanent.org storage code is a promotional code that can be redeemed for storage. You may have received an email from us when you signed up for your Permanent account with a storage code you can redeem for free storage. If you did not receive this ...
View and Add Storage
With Permanent's endowment model, you pay for the storage you need to preserve your files as you need it, rather than paying for a monthly or yearly subscription. Learn more about how our storage fees work here. This article will walk you through How ...
How much storage do I need to preserve my files?
Wondering how much storage you need to get started on Permanent.org? Here are some helpful hints for how many files you can store on Permanent.org with different amounts of storage. 1 Gigabyte 10 Gigabytes 100 Gigabytes 588 Compressed Photos 5,880 ...
How We Use Donations and Storage Fees
A large percentage of the returns on our endowment cover the cost of permanently storing all of our user’s content. However, an equal part will support our Byte-for-Byte program which allocates Permanent Archives and storage space for nonprofits and ...
Redundant Backups
What's the best way to keep something around for all time? Make multiple copies of it and store those copies in different places. We create multiple, redundant copies of every file in our system to mitigate against file degradation. Not only that, ...
Commercial Storage Partners
Running a data center is a major capital investment and organizational commitment that is not a core requirement to our mission. In fact, we see it as a liability. Instead, we leverage reliable, cost-effective commercial services that are already ...
How Our Endowment Works
Permanent endows your digital legacy with the financial stability of a museum, library or university to keep it permanently safe and accessible with a single one time storage fee. Each time a user purchases storage, we invest their one-time, ...
How Our Storage Fees Work
Our storage fees are a $10 per-gigabyte one time fee. You pay only for the storage you need and then you never pay for it again. You can add additional storage whenever you'd like, a gigabyte at a time.