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Re: Google Drive

#81

Post by soupboy »

ozataman wrote: post #62

The best thing about this is that it will finally force Dropbox to offer more storage at a cheaper price point. $200 bucks for 100GB of personal storage per year? I've long thought it's ridiculously high for mass adoption and so many more would be using it if the price was a bit more reasonable. For me: 1. I need much more space than 100GB - I'd ideally like a TB+ on the cloud. 2. The price has to be more acceptable.…

I get the feeling that this is also going to force Amazon to lower their S3 prices. To store 100GB on S3's standard storage costs around $12/month right now [http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/]. Even if Dropbox were getting the best price on that page, it would still cost them $3.7/month to store 100GB.

Re: Google Drive

#82

Post by zavulon »

VikingCoder wrote: post #77
zavulon wrote: post #69

With Google's legendary customer service, it's only a matter of time until someone gets their account locked, loses all their files and can't get them from Google because there's no way to speak an actual person.

Isn't the whole point of this to synch your files to your local computer?

The point is to sync so if your local computer fails you can retrieve them. A situation could occur where your hard drive fails AND you're locked out of your Google Drive account.

Re: Google Drive

#83

Post by VikingCoder »

zavulon wrote: post #82
VikingCoder wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the whole point of this to synch your files to your local computer?

The point is to sync so if your local computer fails you can retrieve them. A situation could occur where your hard drive fails AND you're locked out of your Google Drive account.

Commandment: Make backups.

If you violate this commandment, you will eventually lose your data.

Commandment: Test your backups.

If you violate this commandment, you will discover that you weren't ACTUALLY making backups.

Re: Google Drive

#84

Post by tedsuo »

dmix wrote: post #74
jawngee wrote: post #52

So now they have your social network, your search history, your email ... and now your files? I can't see how that could possibly go wrong.

Also notably, your wallet.

Don't forget your phone, and eventually, your car!!! I give them points for being ambitious.

Re: Google Drive

#85

Post by superchink »

VikingCoder wrote: post #83
zavulon wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is to sync so if your local computer fails you can retrieve them. A situation could occur where your hard drive fails AND you're locked out of your Google Drive account.

Commandment: Make backups. If you violate this commandment, you will eventually lose your data. Commandment: Test your backups. If you violate this commandment, you will discover that you weren't ACTUALLY making backups.

I think his point was that this could be a way to backup certain critical data without having to think about it… but that their history of hands-off customer service & support may prevent that type of use.

Re: Google Drive

#86

Post by zavulon »

VikingCoder wrote: post #83
zavulon wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is to sync so if your local computer fails you can retrieve them. A situation could occur where your hard drive fails AND you're locked out of your Google Drive account.

Commandment: Make backups. If you violate this commandment, you will eventually lose your data. Commandment: Test your backups. If you violate this commandment, you will discover that you weren't ACTUALLY making backups.

Yes, those are nice commandments. But most Google users aren't nearly tech savvy to follow them.

Re: Google Drive

#87

Post by VikingCoder »

zavulon wrote: post #86
VikingCoder wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Commandment: Make backups. If you violate this commandment, you will eventually lose your data. Commandment: Test your backups. If you violate this commandment, you will discover that you weren't ACTUALLY making backups.

Yes, those are nice commandments. But most Google users aren't nearly tech savvy to follow them.

The existence of this new product does not make users more or less tech savvy.

If a user goes from 1 copy (hard drive), to 2 copies, then it's a net gain for their backups.

If a user goes from 2 copies (hard drive, some backup system), to 2 copies (hard drive, Google drive), then yes, arguably, it's a net loss for their backups, because they can simultaneously have a HD failure and get locked out of their Google account.

But arguably, they could live in Joplin, MO and both of their current backups could be toast.

Best to have three - hard drive, backup drive in a safety deposit box, and Google Drive if you like the convenience and access and cost, and don't mind the privacy implications.

I don't mind the privacy implications. Google doing something evil with user's data would be absolute suicide for them.

Re: Google Drive

#88

Post by Liddell »

jwr wrote: post #79
trustfundbaby wrote: post #48

I'm curious to know how many people like this trend of having to watch a video when you get to a landing page. Its showing up in more and more places, and I personally dislike it (I don't want to load a video and watch a clip, if I can quickly scan text and images and figure out if I should continue), but I wanted to know what other people thought.

I rarely watch the videos. Life is too short. If I can learn about the service/product by reading, that's fine, if not — I'll just abandon the page. If the service/product is any good, it will come back to me sooner or later via friends' recommendations.

Seriously life is to short to watch a 55sec video...are you on your deathbed?

Re: Google Drive

#89

Post by doctoboggan »

ceejayoz wrote: post #17
mshafrir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I saw my Docs start syncing in, I thought it meant I would be able to work on them offline. I was also disappointed, but I'm sure this functionality will roll out down the road.

You can enable offline access in Google Docs. Backup's the issue for me, though.

How do you enable offline use? I have been looking for this for a while. I am using google apps if that matters.

Re: Google Drive

#90

Post by abraham »

doctoboggan wrote: post #89
ceejayoz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can enable offline access in Google Docs. Backup's the issue for me, though.

How do you enable offline use? I have been looking for this for a while. I am using google apps if that matters.

https://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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