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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by diminoten »

saurik wrote: post #167
diminoten wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh please; you're just trying to make Google have consequences for what it did to Reader, that's all. Google is about as likely to shut off Google Drive as it is to shut off it's search engine.

Google has shut down many more services than Reader. I am not certain why you choose to highlight only Reader as if that's the one thing Google has ever shut down. Even of the things Google hasn't shut down, many have been "wound down", with no updates or even bug fixes, until eventually being replaced by something only half-related with no upgrade path. The "more wood behind fewer arrows" thing kind of became a meme…

Okay? This is still just someone trying to punish Google for something they feel otherwise powerless to stop, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the likelihood of it happening to Drive itself.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by akmiller »

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…

When has Google ever closed a service that they haven't given you plenty of time and great capability to export all of your data? Not arguing their history of closing services but I'm currently paying $200.00 to Dropbox a year and can convert to Google and pay 48 bucks.

If something happens they decide to close it in the future I'll get my data pulled down and get into another service...but until then I'll be happy to keep my 150 bucks a year!

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by bookwormAT »

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…

my two cents:

* no cloud service is guaranteed to exist in 5 years. * in case any of these services are shut down, it is very likely that they give you the option to download your stuff and use it in another service.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by foobarqux »

fletchowns wrote: post #48
icebraining wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares? If they close it, you signup for a competitor and re-upload the data. Even if they do close it, you'll have months to copy everything. And besides, if you're relying on a single system for all your backups, you're doing it wrong.

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.

Spin up a VPS and transfer the files through that. It will cost you $10.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by VikingCoder »

abritishguy wrote: post #255
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.

Mmmm... kind of not.

You forget that the first 15 GB of Drive is free.

You don't get the first 15 GB of S3 (for each of your users) for free.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by sixothree »

jggonz wrote: post #199

Google Drive allows Google to create a more 'accurate' fingerprint of who you are by examining everything you create. This clearly has huge value... Possibly even more than Google+ if used correctly. The better they get at identifying your needs, the better they can target ads to you within their ecosystem. Google Apps + Google Drive makes sense for Google. All the products they're creating are designed to kill the d…

I can't see any other reason google would offer this for such a low price. It's subsidized.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by mehdim »

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…

Remember the 33 Google APIs that are no more..RIP http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/07/09/33-google-apis-th...

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by joncooper »

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…

1. This is not backup, it's network storage with sync.

2. If Google shutters Google Drive you'll be able to get your data off of it and move it to another vendor's solution.

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