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Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by lifeformed »

robomartin wrote: post #21

OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…

Can you recommend a good alternative to Gmail? Also, are there good tools out there for exporting Gmail data to a different service?

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by epaga »

Since Dropbox (and presumably Google) store files only once globally, mapped to the file's hash, it makes me wonder when Google (or Dropbox?) will let you search and then add anybody's (public) files to your cloud account with a single click.

That means no more downloading from some slow web site, and then uploading it to the cloud again. Since Google most likely already has the file you're wanting somewhere, all you'd need to say is "I want that file, too" and it will be added to your cloud account. Google could do their own version of MegaUpload pretty easily that way...

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by cageface »

lawdawg wrote: post #38
robomartin wrote: post #21

OK, so now when they suspend your Google account you also get to experience loosing whatever you had in Google Drive. Just for this I am converting my Dropbox account into one of their paid packages to do my part in ensuring they stick around. One would hope that at one point Google might start to realize that the way they are handling accounts could work against their own interests. I --and I am sure others-- have e…

which free service (or service that pays you money, ala AdSense) has a better approach to customer service? Honestly curious because I hear a lot of complaints about Google, but I have a feeling that Facebook, Bing/Microsoft, etc aren't any better.

The difference is that if your account gets flagged for anything via any of their services they can lock you out of all their other services. This is the dark side of integration.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by hellgas00 »

danebaker wrote: post #144
obilgic wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox can not really have customer loyalty at all. It will take me 2 mins to switch from dropbox to Google drive if they offer more free space...

Absolutely agree! This is good news IMO - Google has far more storage redundancy than Dropbox does, that's for sure. In a pinch, who do you trust to make sure your data isn't kaput? The answer is obvious.

What's more redundant than having a copy of the file saved across every device you own. It's not like the information is lost if dropbox's servers go down for a short period of time. I've never had a problem with dropbox, so far in my eyes their track record has been good. The problem that Google will have is that Dropbox is extremely simple, that's what it has going for it. The simplicity of folder synchronization is going to be hard to beat in my opinion, unless they copy the model.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by ojilles »

jasonlotito wrote: post #96
conradfr wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PayPal has. I know, I know, horror stories and everything. And the service or the customer service is not always free but at least you can speak to someone, you can have the process explained, you can appeal etc.

That's more to protect PayPal, and the fact that real money is involved. PayPal's customer service is not free. You do pay for it.

Who's asking for anything free?

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by gouranga »

Seriously - 5Gb in 2012?

For any Windows users, just use SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh - it works wonderfully, is very reliable and has a decent TOS which respects user privacy and your data. You get 25Gb for free, OneNote (which rocks), Word and Excel online. All work transparently with Office on the desktop and office on Windows Phone.

My data is synchronised flawlessly between my three PCs and Windows Phone (and has done for the last 3 years, bar the phone which is a new addition). It never resides entirely in the cloud - it is mirrored everywhere so there is no risk if the account is pulled.

It generally feels like I have one computer.

It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by relix »

machrider wrote: post #148
kylec wrote: post #30

I'm hoping this will compel Dropbox to reevaluate their pricing structure. Storage from Google is an order of magnitude cheaper than Dropbox - paid storage starts at $5/year, and for the same $100/year as the cheapest Dropbox account (50GB) you get 8x the capacity.

Dropbox is running on top of S3. If you look at the S3 pricing per GB for storage and bandwidth, it's not exactly cheap. Back of the envelope, I'm guessing a 50GB account costs Dropbox something like $3-$4 per month. Their $9.99 plan can't really go down by an order of magnitude and still be profitable.

S3 is really expensive. Dropbox really should get themselves their own infrastructure. There's no reason a huge company like Dropbox should stick with S3, and I'm pretty sure they're already planning/working on moving away from it.

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by [deleted] »

danebaker wrote: post #143
zerostar07 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All the big guys suck. But, Google will assign a real person to talk to if you have more than ~30M views / month or something. Paypal requires lots of paperwork here in the EU, sometimes their staff will make mistakes or ask you to provide information twice. Facebook is horrible. In one case, when asked about something simple as their billing address, they gave the wrong answer (causing reporting problems). Their dev…

>Google will assign a real person to talk to if you have more than ~30M views / month or something. ...or if you pay for their paid services (Google Apps).

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Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by riobard »

gouranga wrote: post #166

Seriously - 5Gb in 2012? For any Windows users, just use SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh - it works wonderfully, is very reliable and has a decent TOS which respects user privacy and your data. You get 25Gb for free, OneNote (which rocks), Word and Excel online. All work transparently with Office on the desktop and office on Windows Phone. My data is synchronised flawlessly between my three PCs and Windows Phone (and…

It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community.

Because the tech community no longer use Microsoft products?

Re: Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week

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Post by gouranga »

riobard wrote: post #169
gouranga wrote: post #166

Seriously - 5Gb in 2012? For any Windows users, just use SkyDrive and Windows Live Mesh - it works wonderfully, is very reliable and has a decent TOS which respects user privacy and your data. You get 25Gb for free, OneNote (which rocks), Word and Excel online. All work transparently with Office on the desktop and office on Windows Phone. My data is synchronised flawlessly between my three PCs and Windows Phone (and…

It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community. Because the tech community no longer use Microsoft products?

The narcissistic, English speaking, vocal and startup side of the tech community don't.

The rest of us do.

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