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Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by 16s »

lisper wrote: post #111
huhtenberg wrote: post #21

Well, this pretty much exhausts the pool of people who don't care for the data privacy. On the plus side, those who do want privacy are still waiting for a proper solution, and it is an opportunity. (edit) It is really shocking how absolutely mind-bogglingly ignorant people are when it comes to their data privacy matters. How could any business person in a sane state of mind choose to share its data with some 3rd par…

Have you looked at tarsnap?

While it is an excellent service, tarsnap is not a replacement for Dropbox.

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Post by aleyan »

cryptoz wrote: post #23
emp_ wrote: post #12

I think this shows a massive change in direction with Google in the last years, when GMail was introduced it came with that "Holy shit that is a lot of space" while every other webmail was offering 10-500MB accounts, they came with BOOM! 5GB and growing. Now they are simply matching the competition with the same features with the "..but it's from Google" attached to it, which is similar to what Microsoft did with Hot…

> every other webmail was offering 10-500MB accounts, they came with BOOM! 5GB and growing. At the time, I think Hotmail offered 2MB (free). Google upped the game to 1GB.

That is correct. A few months prior to gmail announcement hotmail lowered their free offering from 5 MB or 6 MB to 2 MB.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by alsocasey »

randlet wrote: post #47
mhb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

the 5$/year figure is the older extra storage option for GMail/Docs/Picasa. The newer GDrive storage is 2.50$/month for 25GB.

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Post by jamesu »

Does anyone find the sharing to be awkward? For instance, i shared a photo and noticed it took quite a while to load for someone not signed in since lots of redirection was going on. I also shared a folder of pictures, but they simply appeared as a file listing with no thumbnail view despite thumbnail view being an option in the normal interface.

Really, the interface seems a bit plain for now. Hope they improve upon it soon.

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Post by [deleted] »

ajross wrote: post #103
286c8cb04bda wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The API is already open: https://developers.google.com/drive/

But that's an API for chrome apps. You couldn't write a linux-based sync client, or FUSE mount, etc... Basically Linux users have access to the ecosystem of online apps, but not access to the files in the native filesystem (one of the things that makes Dropbox such a killer app). Frustrating.

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Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by Groxx »

TomatoTomato wrote: post #133
Groxx wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is this still the case? Mine only shows 5GB. edit: My Drive updated! You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 87040 MB. Should have bought more...

It's still there, yeah. I do notice that we're using two different links, though. The 'upgrade' link sent me here: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage?hl=en_US which looks like this: http://cl.ly/2S07190C2B1c0z1K1z2G while yours (from the other thread here) seems to be going to https://www.google.com/settings/storage/?hl=en and looks like this: http://cl.ly/1P1I1s2K3f2H3v0e321g

(pseudo-edit while typing) I think I found it: http://cl.ly/0d3r3F1343132g131y36 (notice down at the bottom) though all the 'learn more' links just take me to the essentially-useless help home-page, rather than to a place where I could actually learn more.

What do you get if you go to my first link? Might there be time to grandfather in a better plan?

Actual edit: woah - it just started redirecting me to the more expensive option (hasn't been for the past 1/2 hour). wtf.

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by alecbenzer »

ajross wrote: post #103
286c8cb04bda wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The API is already open: https://developers.google.com/drive/

But that's an API for chrome apps. You couldn't write a linux-based sync client, or FUSE mount, etc... Basically Linux users have access to the ecosystem of online apps, but not access to the files in the native filesystem (one of the things that makes Dropbox such a killer app). Frustrating.

* Hm, I wonder if I'll prefer this to Dropbox?

* No linux client

* Snuggle up closer with Dropbox

Re: Introducing Google Drive... yes, really

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Post by ahi »

bvdbijl wrote: post #119
aresant wrote: post #68

I recently upgraded to Dropbox @ $199/yr for 100gb to archive our digital photos. Yesterday MSFT skydrive offered 100gb for $50/yr. Today GOOG offers 400GB for $100/yr or 1TB for $256/yr. As a consumer with "offsite backup" in mind, there doesn't seem to be an inherently high switching cost to move services away from DropBox. As a result I think that they're going to need to reassess pricing strategy within the year.…

Oh wow, I just bought 1 year for $5 AFTER GDrive was released and I have now 25GB of storage, but now if I click on the link it brings me here: https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ and says my current plan isn't available any more. Sweet!

Maybe you should call customer service.
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