This is the same price as Amazon Glaicer at $0.01 per GB.
Glacier has 4-8 hour retrieval times, as well as retrieval costs, depending on how much data you're taking out over a sliding window of time.
Save more with Google Drive
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#142I 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…
On one hand I support DropBox, because they care about my needs - I'm (also) a Ubuntu Linux user and Google apparently doesn't care about me enough to provide me with a client. Apparently I'm so unimportant to them that they can't justify the cost of a couple of man-months. On the other hand your worry, while justified, does not apply to Google Drive. Google Drive is now an integral part of: - GMail - Google Apps - A…
I don't use Google Drive on any of those platforms (that I'm aware of).
Meanwhile, Picasa integration was strong enough that it took years for me to figure out how to get rid of the screenshots I used on my blog 6 years ago out of the Photos app on my phone. But I wouldn't bet on Picasa being around for the long term.
Basically, I can easily see Google pivoting away from Drive being a sync client and towards some kind of always-online thing with a light local cache.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're right. Since you don't use that much storage, no one else could possibly find this price reduction useful.
My point is - they used to have excellent $/GB plans (grandfathered), then reduced the value, and now have improved the value back to roughly what it was before.
The 15GB tier is free. Since you're only using 10GB, they've effectively dropped you from $5/year to $0/year. Not sure why you're complaining.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
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#145Single biggest shortcoming about Google Drive in an enterprise environment: There's no option to download an entire folder from a shared (public) link. We use Google Apps but not all of our customers / partners / contractors do, and some large collections of shared files need to be downloaded and not simply viewed on a public webpage.
I've found box.net to be the best solution for that. We're able to give our clients access to a hierarchy of files and folders, access just requires a password (no box.net account or software) and we even get an analytics dashboard to keep tabs on what/when they're accessing things. https://www.box.com/business/secure-file-sharing/ If anyone has alternatives for this use-case I'd love to hear about them as well, as B…
I've found Box to be the "go to" solution for this as well. We don't have to share large collections often enough to justify a monthly subscription yet, but may in the future.
I just find it to be a shame that we pay for Google Apps, get our people used to and accustomed to using things like Drive and then have to find/pay for another SaaS solution (that's more than we pay for the entire suite of Google Apps) just because people outside our organization can't download a folder from Google's file hosting service w/o signing up for it themselves.
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#146Dropbox is $9.99 for 100GB for comparison. Drive still doesn't have a Linux Client.
How does the two clients compare? I'm a long Dropbox 100Gb user and I've never been disappointed. Every updates is amazing.
But one bad thing is that I'm not putting all my videos up there because of the lack of space, I'm really considering switching to Google Drive now, but according to my small experience with it the client is not really good.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
On one hand I support DropBox, because they care about my needs - I'm (also) a Ubuntu Linux user and Google apparently doesn't care about me enough to provide me with a client. Apparently I'm so unimportant to them that they can't justify the cost of a couple of man-months. On the other hand your worry, while justified, does not apply to Google Drive. Google Drive is now an integral part of: - GMail - Google Apps - A…
> I'm (also) a Ubuntu Linux user and Google apparently doesn't care about me enough to provide me with a client. Apparently I'm so unimportant to them that they can't justify the cost of a couple of man-months. Apparently around half of the 20,000 Google employees use a version of Ubuntu ('Goobuntu'), so I wouldn't say they don't care about Ubuntu... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
Yeah, they gotta have an internal Linux client.
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#148It nags me that even at this great price I'm not jumping up and down to switch from Dropbox. Why is this? -- Once you start using Dropbox there are some serious network effects. It takes a lot of work to get all your friends (both work and personal) to move. -- Even though Google Drive is so much cheaper it just doesn't seem to have the usability of Dropbox. I find the web interface really hard to use for some reason…
> I don't know. At this point Google might need to pay me to switch.
That's just being a troll about things.
As for me, I'm considering switching now, but as you said, it's not a strong feeling, Dropbox is a big part of my life now.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's assess risk. Risk A) Google might end support for Drive. They've shown that , if they do, they'll give a lot of notice. You'll have an opportunity to move your files elsewhere. Risk B) Dropbox goes out of business. Most likely because Google is undercutting their prices by about 90%. If you are lucky, they give some notice. They also might just send everyone home and shut off the lights, like many companies do…
they didn't tell anybody when they pulled support for sets from spreadsheets.
Well, that's not surprising given that it was never a documented feature to begin with, to my knowledge.
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#150I 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…
I agree with the general sentiment, but in this case, I think it's pretty clear it's central to Google's strategy. Now, Nexus phones? Those might not exist in a few short years.
They won't if Google doesn't put back in a storage card slot and replaceable batteries like the Nexus One had.