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Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by Legion »

Does this not apply to Google Apps? I went to add Google Drive Storage to our GA for Business account and the page said $89 per month per license for 1 TB.

EDIT: So apparently I can let individual users buy individual Google Drive storage at the prices listed in this post (and listed here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en).

But as a Google Apps admin, if I want to buy licenses and manage them for our users, I have to pay these prices: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914

$9.99/mo for 1 TB if the user buys it for themselves.

$89.00/mo for 1 TB if the Google Apps admin buys it for them.

Google, this is stupid.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by subsection1h »

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…

> Why should I be more comfortable letting Google back up my stuff instead of Dropbox?

You refer to Dropbox and Google Drive as backup solutions. When I evaluated Dropbox, I read that they offer an addon named Packrat that turns their popular file synchronization service into an actual backup solution. Does Google now offer a similar addon for Google Drive? If not, Google Drive isn't a backup solution. And without Packrat, neither is Dropbox.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

donniezazen wrote: post #147
UVB-76 wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Haha.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by laureny »

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…

> I think at this point I'm a little more comfortable paying more for a company that I know won't abandon this market.

Interestingly, after I read this sentence, I thought "Yeah, I'm not so sure DropBox will be around as long as Google, so I'll stick with Google".

And then I realized you wanted to make the opposite argument.

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Post by mistermann »

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…

I agree with much of what you say, however....

At what (little) it does, Dropbox does it very well, but for what little it does, I would definitely not call it cheap. Well worth it for some people, but very marginal for others like myself. I'm not aware of any new features coming out of Dropbox in well over a year, and there are many they could easily add, so as a matter of principle, I would change to a competitor provided their feature set and performance was at least as good, at the same or lower price..

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Post by ansimionescu »

gtirloni wrote: post #209

They are offering a product at 1/10th of the price of their competitors. That comes at a cost. Customer support is already bad enough, my guess is the infrastructure isn't that great so they can price it cheaply. We wouldn't trust a cheap VPS provider with our data if they were offering storage at this price. What magical thing Google has that suddenly makes us all safe at this price point?

[citation needed]

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by laureny »

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…

> 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.

Depends.

Google might decide to stop supporting it because they want to focus on something else and DropBox might decide to pivot because they can no longer make enough money compared to the costs they incur (especially as Google is slowly squeezing them out of the market with the kind of price slashing we are currently discussing).

Nobody can claim with certainty which of Google or DropBox is more likely to support their product the longest.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by frade33 »

I was busy reading the post itself, and just got my eyes on the comments below. Damnit! Oh! Well, there is plenty of concern, regarding google shutting down its various services in the past.

However shutting down Google Drive would be equal to shutting down google docs in my books. It would be wrong to compare Drive to wave, jaiku etc. None of those shut down services were of 'vital' and 'strategic' importance as much as Google Drive is, to the Google Inc.

Moreover, Google is pretty efficient at building data centers, with hardware prices going down coupled with their capability to run massive data centers efficiently in terms of costs, I guess Google is and will remain a major and competitive player in Cloud Storage.

Re: Save more with Google Drive

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Post by sp332 »

teraflop wrote: post #149
chillingeffect wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/75509
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