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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by saturdaysaint »

Outside of it's document editing, I find Drive's iOS app to be pretty half-assed. Dropbox can handle anything you throw at it much more reliably, and typically has a far better built-in viewer/player. You can't play .m4a files in Drive, for example, or search within a .pdf. Sure, these things can be offloaded to other apps, but I find this makes managing my phone's storage a lot more cumbersome. I also like how photos/videos get their own tab in Dropbox's iOS app.

I wish the iOS Drive team spent half as much effort on these details as they did shoehorning their own UI conventions into iOS.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by baddox »

yukichan wrote: post #99
untog wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. As a counterpoint to that, Dropbox might not exist in 5 years. Google most likely will. Basically, there is no answer here that guarantees the future of your cloud storage. It's useful to access your files from multiple locations, but using it for long term file archival seems like asking for disappointment (as well as being a neat way of throwing money into the sky).

Dropbox is profitable yeah? Why wouldn't they be around in 5 years? Google's prices are so much cheaper than Dropbox, but the ease of use with Dropbox, and the fact that I have my families devices and computers already set up probably means I wont ever switch. I take a picture with my phone? It's on dropbox. My wife takes a picture? It's on dropbox. I take a screenshot on my PC? It's on dropbox. I even wrote a little…

Surely there have been companies that have shut down less than 5 years from the last time they were profitable.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by thearn4 »

simonsarris wrote: post #9

I 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…

> What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block. You can see their agony from space.

I'd toss google scholar into the ones you listed as well. A fantastic search tool, but (unless I'm missing something) it's completely buried away on their site.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by anu_gupta »

dweekly wrote: post #21

I 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...?

Well, Google gives you 15GB for free, Seeing as you're only using 10GB, not sure why you're paying, especially as you seem to be quite price sensitive.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by rwallace »

arjie wrote: post #154
crazygringo wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's so incredibly expensive where you live, then you probably aren't using online file storage in the first place. And yes it can take a long time, but you might swap cloud providers every 2-5 years , you're not doing it every day. Even if it still takes a month to copy all your files, that's generally an unattended process, so it's not such a big deal. I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's not a huge deal. All t…

Not to enter the Google v Dropbox argument, but with data caps, it's easy to slowly build up a lot of backed up data that you cannot really retrieve all at once.

Not to enter that argument either, but whatever cloud storage service you use, you should be storing your data there as well as on at least one local hard disk, not instead of.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by 300bps »

fletchowns wrote: post #115
icebraining wrote: post #69

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Download and then uploading a terabyte of data can be very expensive depending on where you live Dropbox doesn't have a 1TB plan, but 2x500GB costs $1000/year. On Drive, it costs $100/year. That's a difference of $900/year. I don't know where you live, but around here $900/year buys you a pretty fucking good connection, with blackjack and hookers included. it can also take a very long time. So what? You can still use…

I live in the Bay Area and I pay about $800/year for 120KB/s upload (AT&T U-Verse). Certainly no blackjack and hookers included.

I live in the Bay Area and I pay about $800/year for 120KB/s upload

Well, that's terrible and you are no doubt aware of that. I live in Philadelphia and pay $74.95 per month for Unlimited home phone service, Prime TV channel lineup and 75 Mbps downstream and 35 Mbps upstream unlimited Internet through Verizon FIOS.

I currently use both Dropbox and OneDrive but this pricing is ridiculously cheap. I've been purposely holding back on the things I back up onto cloud because of its costs but if competitors don't follow suit I'll be switching. The main thing I haven't been backing up in the cloud are the ~ 400 GB of home movies I have.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by gtirloni »

They are offering a product at 1/10th of the price of their competitors. That comes at a cost. Customer support is already bad enough, my guess is the infrastructure isn't that great so they can price it cheaply.

We wouldn't trust a cheap VPS provider with our data if they were offering storage at this price. What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point?

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by smokinjoe »

threeseed wrote: post #185
untog wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Dropbox will be Dropbox in 5 years. As a counterpoint to that, Dropbox might not exist in 5 years. Google most likely will. Basically, there is no answer here that guarantees the future of your cloud storage. It's useful to access your files from multiple locations, but using it for long term file archival seems like asking for disappointment (as well as being a neat way of throwing money into the sky).

Google has a history of shutting even profitable projects. Dropbox doesn't. There is a legitimate reason to be wary of relying on anything Google.

What profitable projects have they dropped that would be along the same impact as Google Drive?

Are you saying they may significantly cut down the cloud capabilities?

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