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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by philsnow » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 8:55 PM UTC

eterm wrote: post #144

fletchowns wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Business T1 pipe? As residential users we are I think prone to forget how much cheaper and faster our unreliable async connections are in comparison to business broadband.

I guess that you are 33 +- 3 years old :)

a t1 was "fast" about 15 years ago, so if you learned a tiny bit about business class internet right around when you were 20 like I did, that's how fast a connection would have been around then.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by kbenson » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 8:57 PM UTC

My thought process on pricing like this inevitably follows the same pattern. First, 1 TB for $9.99? Cool! Then, 10 TB for $99.99? Why are you trying to jack me for 9 cents?

I know it's nothing in the long run, but part of me really wishes I had a reason to need 10 TB so I could try to ask for 10 separate 1 TB plans with the space added together, just to force them to face this silliness head on.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by rstupek » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 8:58 PM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #63

rstupek wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Checkout was abandoned and wasn't free

And replaced with Google Wallet which is, at least as a user, the exact same thing or better and exists on more platforms. That one isn't really a surprise.

No, Wallet isn't the same thing. Checkout was a merchant solution (not a user solution) which wallet doesn't fill.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by rstupek » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:00 PM UTC

pavanky wrote: post #44

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…

All of those were experiments and not paid products. I don't see Google shutting down stuff that people are actually paying for.

Google Checkout was a paid solution which google shutdown, leaving merchants stuck looking for alternatives. The fact you're paying for a solution from google (or anyone for that matter) doesn't ensure continued survival of the solution

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by abritishguy » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:01 PM UTC

eslaught wrote: post #238

What 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…

You are assuming that you are using your entire allowance in Google drive.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by adamb_ » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

Aren't these cost reductions more or less in line with Moore's law? I know the SSD/HDD market isn't exactly doubling storage capacity every 18 months, but seems to me like these price changes should be expected.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by lewaldman » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:02 PM UTC

blisterpeanuts wrote: post #113

I see two problems with massive offsite storage such as Google Drive 1 TB. First, although $120/year may be quite cheap in the world of cloud storage, hardware's cheap. You can buy a 2-TB external hard drive for less than $120. 1-TB drives are going for $60-$70 now. So why pay rent when you can own? Buy a couple of 1-TB drives every year, copy your stuff onto both, and store one at a relative's house in another city.…

Exactly what I'm thinking to do.... Going with ownership.

A couple of bitsynced folders, synced to a home storage (and other computers, shared with friends, etc...), that I can backup with Tarsnap.

Simple, reliable and MINE! :P

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by brianmcdonough » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:03 PM UTC

barrkel wrote: post #136

watty wrote: post #110

Earlier 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.

How very Kafka.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by brianmcdonough » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:05 PM UTC

Cloud storage is not going away. It's just getting massively cheaper and will continue to do so until the team at dropbox gets bored with running a commodity business and turn to conquer another big problem.

Creative people do not thrive in commodity businesses and their skills are in much higher demand driving massive growth as they have to this point.

Amazon will incorporate cloud storage into prime at some point and may dominate this market as they are very good at running long-term focused, commodity-based businesses.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by ssmoot » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 9:07 PM UTC

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…

Dropbox is 10X the price.

That's pretty wild. I didn't renew my Dropbox Pro account since it was by far my most expensive backup option.

I've got my Drobo that's been my Time Machine thingy for the past 5 years. I've got iCloud for recent-ish stuff. I've got Backblaze for long-term storage at $5/month (or whatever).

I had to pick and chose what to put on Dropbox and it was the most expensive option.

With Google Drive I can go back to that pricing, but no longer have to pick and choose and still get the (infrequently used, but convenient) drag & drop sharing between devices.

I think I'm going to sign up.