Can anyone find information on file versioning? How long and how many versioned files are stored?
30 days, and you can pin certain versions.
Introducing Google Drive... yes, really
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#42The clock is ticking on Dropbox to lower their price. I'm paying $99/year for 50GB, but I'd be getting 100GB for $60/year over at Google. I'm already banging up against my 50GB limit - I may actually jump over to Google before my subscription is up just because the prices are so good.
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#43Does Dropbox intrusively scan personal files, if not then I'd prefer to go with them since I don't want Google prying into my files.
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#44"Drive is also an open platform"
Working with select third-party developers does not make something an open platform. A documented API makes something an open platform. Even a command-line client for a popular web-server operating system makes something an open platform. Google Drive is not an open platform yet.
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#45Very aggressive pricing! Dropbox is 4 times more expensive for 100 GB. $5/mo vs $20. Will be interesting to see how Dropbox reacts to that.
80GB on Drive is $1.60 a month ($20 a year). DropBox 100GB is $20 a month!
Google is playing with it's massive tech. I hope DropBox does still has a chance and they need to do something pretty soon.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
80GB on Drive is $1.60 a month ($20 a year). DropBox 100GB is $20 a month!
That is incorrect, you are looking at the old Google account storage costs. These are different and may supersede the old pricing. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to…
I don't know if it is, though. I have Google's +20gb plan from an earlier purchase, and it gives me 25gb in Drive too, for $5 per year.
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#47Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.
Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.
In the pricing page of My Account it says:
Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year
But in the blogpost it says:"You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month"
They should probably get that sorted out.
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#48Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.
Notice they mentioned wedding and vacation planning? Great advertising opportunities.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
80GB on Drive is $1.60 a month ($20 a year). DropBox 100GB is $20 a month!
That is incorrect, you are looking at the old Google account storage costs. These are different and may supersede the old pricing. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free—that’s enough to store the high-res photos of your trip to the Mt. Everest, scanned copies of your grandparents’ love letters or a career’s worth of business proposals, and still have space for the novel you’re working on. You can choose to…
Do you have a link? Their pricing is confusing as hell, no clear information anywhere.
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#50"Drive is also an open platform" Working with select third-party developers does not make something an open platform. A documented API makes something an open platform. Even a command-line client for a popular web-server operating system makes something an open platform. Google Drive is not an open platform yet.
I'm not sure if this helps https://developers.google.com/drive/ but as taken from another comment, it seems there is an API (or SDK or whatever).