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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by barrkel » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:29 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #306

barrkel wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 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. That's not too unlikely, if by "Drive" you mean the desktop sync application, which pretty clearly has always been pretty tangential to the strategic purpose of Drive, which is first and foremost a cloud storage platform for web apps (Google first-party apps, institutional cus…

That's exactly what I think - I even said so earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7394140

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by Paul12345534 » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:30 PM UTC

Quite happy paying for Crashplan at the moment but Google Drive has the allure of instant access to files with a nice API... no heavy desktop client.... complete control how you access them.... I have 4-5TB total between my photography and other work.

This IS an Amazon Glacier killer if nothing else :)

Really hoping within the next 5 years someone finally comes up with the large capacity optical discs they keep promising. Bluray discs will fit in bank safety deposit but it's still a lot of hassle.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by Paul12345534 » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:38 PM UTC

sytelus wrote: post #276

Absolutely not good enough. Even at $10/mo these prices are horrible. To compare this, Flickr is currently offering 1TB FREE for all photos + videos storage. Even my crummy hosting provider is offering 1TB for $5/mo with unlimited bandwidth plus host of other goodies thrown in. Dropbox paid account was already a rip off. Google Drive is less ripoff, but ripoff none the less.

Flickr is also limited to jpeg photos only ;) and I'd trust Google for safety of my data (not necessarily privacy) for more than a crummy hosting provider.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by Paul12345534 » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:41 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…

Google Drive has an API but it's certainly not meant for S3 use-cases serving content on websites :)

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/

When you talk about Glacier, you must remember there's no instant access to files and there's bandwidth costs associated with downloading your files. The price for storage may be the same but the overall costs of Glacier are much higher.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by thefreeman » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:50 PM UTC

SeanDav wrote: post #108

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).

If there is a choice - it is better to place your bet with the company whose main business line depends on the service you are using. Google has a long history of dropping services, because it can. It does not matter to Google that 10k people or 100k people find that particular service useful. Google is not about to drop search and search related ads any time soon - storage services it could drop tomorrow and not car…

It's not like Google is just going to cancel Drive and delete all of your files. If Drive goes away all you need to do is signup for Drop Box...

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by c_c_c » Thu, Mar 13, 2014, 11:51 PM UTC

rstupek wrote: post #254

pavanky wrote: post #44

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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

Didn't exactly shut it down like they did with reader or others though. It was replaced by another product, Google Wallet. Reader received no replacement from Google.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by _delirium » Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 12:05 AM UTC

herokusaki wrote: post #303

_delirium wrote: post #121

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Depending on what kind of cloud services you're looking for, Jottacloud (Norway) is vaguely like Dropbox. Exoscale (Switzerland) is roughly analogous to AWS.

How is your experience with Jottacloud?

I haven't tried it yet, mostly because of the lack of a Linux client. They claim they will ship one in 2014, though.

They give you an interesting choice between pricing models (http://www.jottacloud.com/prices/). Besides the conventional pay-for-space model, they have another model where you get unlimited space but pay per linked device, $6/mo per computer and $1.70/mo per mobile device.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by revelation » Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 12:19 AM UTC

dperfect wrote: post #67

I won't go near Google Drive until they fix some serious longstanding issues with the desktop client. The two that caused me to abandon Google Drive (I even have a free TB for 3 years from my Chromebook Pixel): 1. No way to re-sync existing folders on your computer (seriously). I was pushing hundreds of GBs of photos to my Google Drive, and after syncing everything, upgraded to a new computer (the files were stored o…

Point 2 is a common theme with Google Drive, Dropbox and others. Tested only on hexacore dev machines with SSD backed RAM disks, their moron developers thought it prudent to just absolutely trash the system with harddisk IO on boot, presumably to find out that nothing has changed, as a simple timestamp check could have told them.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by fletchowns » Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 12:37 AM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #314

fletchowns wrote: post #153

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You say that like I have a choice for my ISP.

You mean like Comcast, Unwired, Sonic, MegaPath, DSL Extreme, Covad, and AT&T? Yeah, I guess I'd call that "choice".

AT&T U-Verse is the only thing available in my apartment complex. I chuckled at Unwired...I can pay twice as much for half the speed? Sign me up!!

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by kchoudhu » Fri, Mar 14, 2014, 12:38 AM UTC

iwasakabukiman wrote: post #65

Right 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.

Look out for the offers that periodically give you free storage for a year for using bing.

Currently sitting on 100GB of storage for free until 2020.