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It is a joke. Dropbox and Zumo Drive both give you twice that for free; it's amazing that Google with its millions of servers and 7 something GB Gmail accounts

by spydez 17y ago

It is a joke. Dropbox and Zumo Drive both give you twice that for free; it's amazing that Google with its millions of servers and 7 something GB Gmail accounts can't do better than a lousy 1GB free.

RyanMcGreal 17y ago
True, but that means you can store 1/8th of your $50 thumbdrive there. Where Google wins is the cost of buying additional storage, which is an order of magnitude cheaper than Dropbox. On the other hand, it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited.
- zmimon 17y ago
  > it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely provide support to mount plain old drives under windows. It's always some crappy web interface or custom client that synchs stuff around which makes it non-interoperable with every other program I use that just wants to save something to the file system and know that it got to the cloud. I really don't get it - Windows supports WebDAV - what is so freakin hard about this? I really wish they would just give me a network drive to save to and let me worry about finding some synchronization software to mirror stuff there if that turns me on.
  - RyanMcGreal 17y ago
    Sounds like a business opportunity.
  - past 17y ago
    I wish Windows supported WebDAV in a sane way. They seemed keen to do so around Windows XP, but they apparently changed plans. They have two stacks, the more standards-compliant one (Web Folders) is deprecated and won't run in many new versions of Windows and the old one is way too buggy and suffering from bit-rot.
electromagnetic 17y ago
It's a yet-to-launch product from google. GMail accounts have grown significantly in size since release and were invite only for a fair amount of time. From what I've read GDrive is open to everyone, not an invite only, so the small size on release is likely simply to work out stability issues. I won't be surprised if in a year the free storage offered had already quadrupled.

by spydez 17y ago

It is a joke. Dropbox and Zumo Drive both give you twice that for free; it's amazing that Google with its millions of servers and 7 something GB Gmail accounts can't do better than a lousy 1GB free.

RyanMcGreal 17y ago

True, but that means you can store 1/8th of your $50 thumbdrive there. Where Google wins is the cost of buying additional storage, which is an order of magnitude cheaper than Dropbox. On the other hand, it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited.

zmimon 17y ago
> it doesn't look like Google offers synchronization so its utility as a backup environment is quite limited. Actually, my beef with all these services is the opposite: they rarely provide support to mount plain old drives under windows. It's always some crappy web interface or custom client that synchs stuff around which makes it non-interoperable with every other program I use that just wants to save something to the file system and know that it got to the cloud. I really don't get it - Windows supports WebDAV - what is so freakin hard about this? I really wish they would just give me a network drive to save to and let me worry about finding some synchronization software to mirror stuff there if that turns me on.
- RyanMcGreal 17y ago
  Sounds like a business opportunity.
- past 17y ago
  I wish Windows supported WebDAV in a sane way. They seemed keen to do so around Windows XP, but they apparently changed plans. They have two stacks, the more standards-compliant one (Web Folders) is deprecated and won't run in many new versions of Windows and the old one is way too buggy and suffering from bit-rot.

electromagnetic 17y ago

It's a yet-to-launch product from google. GMail accounts have grown significantly in size since release and were invite only for a fair amount of time. From what I've read GDrive is open to everyone, not an invite only, so the small size on release is likely simply to work out stability issues. I won't be surprised if in a year the free storage offered had already quadrupled.