Dropbox is $9.99 for 100GB for comparison. Drive still doesn't have a Linux Client.
I am using Insync, it works flawless. It does cost a one time fee, but that's it.
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#242per month? That's $120/year, or $360 for 3 years. I think you can buy a couple of 3 TB hard drives for that.
They're providing power, redundancy, and network connectivity.
The guy is right; calculate it through. I did with consumer priced hardware (they can probably get it at near manufacturing costs because of the huge volume) and they still seem to be making a fair bit of profit.
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#243What I find interesting about this is that the Google Drive is now significantly less expensive than Amazon S3, and even comparable to Amazon Glacier. Google Drive: $10/1000GB = $0.01/GB Amazon S3: $0.85/GB for the first 1 TB Amazon Glacier: $0.01/GB (all prices per month) This means that any service built on top of Amazon S3 will never be less expensive than Google Drive. Period. Sure, there are caveats. Google Driv…
Deduplication.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not a betting man but if I had to put $1 on which service (Dropbox or Google Drive) would disappear first I'd bet Dropbox.
I'd probably bet on Google putting Dropbox out of business with competition, then getting rid of Drive because it's no longer a growth area.
oof, worst of both worlds
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a terrible retort. Downloading and then uploading a terabyte of data can be very expensive depending on where you live, and it can also take a very long time.
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…
Dropbox has an unlimited plan for $795.
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#247FYI, it looks like Google will not auto-upgrade your 100GB plan to be $1.99/mo. You need to go into the plan settings and do it yourself.
Indeed. The announcement states, "If you already pay for storage, you’ll automatically move to a better plan at no additional cost," but that does not seem to cover people whose plans are simply becoming cheaper.
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#248like what was making me avoid those products was the price/storage ratio...
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#249They 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?
> What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point?
If you're referring to the service staying around, probably nothing convincing. If you're referring to your data being safe, probably the best, most battle-tested warehouse-scale data centers this side of the NSA. They restored Gmail data when they lost that [1] and nobody was paying anything then. It'd probably take co-ordinated airstrikes in multiple countries, ie world war to cause them permanent data loss.
[1] http://mashable.com/2011/03/01/google-sorry-gmail-reset/
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#250I use Google Drive and the new price seems quite nice to me. That being said, I find the web interface for Drive to be awful. What I want is for the web-interface to be more "desktop-like". For example, * It's difficult to select multiple disparate files * you have limited options on how to sort your files * If you search for a file, it's difficult to open up the enclosing directory (at least I can't figure it out) *…
JMHO? You must be an electrical engineer ;0)