So they finally got prices below where they were almost two years ago[1]. Still very yay and that's a great deal, but I'll keep my legacy $5/year plan.
[1]: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/04/24/google-storage-price...
Save more with Google Drive
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#72per month? That's $120/year, or $360 for 3 years. I think you can buy a couple of 3 TB hard drives for that.
Reminds me of the infamous "Show HN: Dropbox" post. One of the top comments: > For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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#73Single biggest shortcoming about Google Drive in an enterprise environment: There's no option to download an entire folder from a shared (public) link. We use Google Apps but not all of our customers / partners / contractors do, and some large collections of shared files need to be downloaded and not simply viewed on a public webpage.
To download a file you've created, you have to choose the public file format you want to export it to, don't you? Isn't that the only way to get them out the Gdrive lobster pot?
If you let other people export your files, how do you know what they're going to look like? Do you do test downloads first?
(Forgive the ignorance. I gave up on Gdrive very quickly when I saw what it did to Microsoft Ofice documents....)
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#74I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
Even if they decide to close down, I'm sure they will notify you well in advance.
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#75I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
fifty times as much storage.
Apologies for not being more specific in what I'm comparing. You're right that their TB plan is 50x my 20GB plan, but I was referring to their 100GB plan.
Current plan: 20GB for $5/year ($0.41/mo) => $0.25/GB/year New Plan 1: 100GB for $23.88/year => $0.24/GB/year New Plan 2: 1TB for $119.88/year => $0.12/GB/year
The 100GB plan is not a better deal for me, especially if I'm unlikely to fill the 100GB. The 1TB plan could be a better deal but only for someone using more than 500GB.
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#76I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
The sad decline of Google Finance from best in class to also-ran is really depressing. I use Yahoo Finance now, which includes an outrageously easy API.
I kind of like knowing that Google abandons certain markets and that other people have a chance at making some money in that space. It always seems intuitive to me that Google could just crush any business they want with a weekend of coding, but it apparently isn't true, and I like that.
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#77Right now I use SkyDrive, since I got 200 GB free for two years when I got my Surface. So I'm set for now. But by the time my free storage runs out and I need to find somewhere to keep my files, I think it will be interesting to see how the prices are. I have a feeling that by then Google will be offering 100 GB for free, trying to get you to keep everything on Google Drive.
I am not sure if this is true, but from what I understand, once your time is up, the files are still there, but they are read only.
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#78I currently pay Google $5/year for 20GB. I use half of this. I'm supposed to be really excited about what a good deal it is that I can pay five times as much for five times as much storage that I'm not using...?
twice as much pay.
Not sure where you're getting that math. $5/year (current price) vs $1.99/mo for 100GB = $23.88/year, which is about 5x more than I pay now.
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#79I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
Managing your risks is fair, but it's not clear that Google Drive is less reliable than Dropbox. 1) Google Drive is a fundamental part of their online office suite, which means it's used internally for day-to-day employee work. Reader, Wave, Finance didn't get that status. Not to mention that having paid enterprise plans means it's a bit more mature than other things. 2) In 5 years, Dropbox could very well be referre…
They merged the synced folder functionality into the office suite; they can pull it back out.
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#80I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market. I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time? Google is very haphazard with their web properties. Sometimes they shutter them, sometimes they stuff them in the closet. Google Reader, Wave, etc, you know. the stories. What scares me more are…
I have more confidence that Drive is here to stay because of one fact: an entire line of computers (Chromebooks) rely on Drive solely for their storage. At this point, abandoning Drive would be abandoning a lot of other things. This was never true for your list of Google chopping block apps.