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Good remainder again that "the cloud is just someone's else computer"! In my experience, GDrive is a piece of crap with a lot of weird behaviors and easy ways
by greatgib 4y ago
Good remainder again that "the cloud is just someone's else computer"!
In my experience, GDrive is a piece of crap with a lot of weird behaviors and easy ways to lose your data if you sync your computer with it.
The worse here, as said by multiple persons, is not to have a limit. A limit on their service is fair. It is that this limit is undocumented, and that their key selling point is to shout everywhere that if you pay you will have "unlimited" storage. And that it will scale more easily than using your own "not cloud" backups.
- Gigachad 4y agoDo they advertise unlimited storage? When I looked, the top plan was 30tb. To hit the file cap, you have to have 30tb of files averaging no more than 6mb.
- ElectricalUnion 4y agoIn theory, if name metadata is "free", you can make a infinite ammount of 0 byte files with very large paths and tags.
- Gigachad 4y agoWhats the chance someone created some FUSE mount for storing data in 0 byte files.
- lazide 4y ago100% I imagine. GDrive does have API rate limiting which either way is going to make it slow/useless for REALLY large data storage.
- Gigachad 4y agoI've noticed over the years they have been cutting off all the unlimited stuff. Docs used to be unmeasured and unlimited, now they actually count the doc size to your storage, which is still effectively unlimited under non abuse use cases.
- andromeduck 4y agoThen just charge for metadata over a certian file count ot size?! Can be a token amount.
- Gigachad 4y agoDrive is a consumer product. Having to explain to a user why they were charged an extra 5 cent because of a feature they don't even understand is not viable. If you want no limits granular pricing. Use S3 or the Google version of it. They provide exactly the product you want, it just isn't Drive.
- andromeduck 4y agoJust count it towards the storage limit as metadata or some shit.
- greatgib 4y agoI don't know if it is still the case but it used to be advertised like that. For exemple : https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/6034782?hl=en Unlimited storage With G Suite Business, each user in your organization can store unlimited Gmail messages, Google Photos, and files in Drive. And I did not search for example, but I'm quite sure that they also advertised google one like that. Something like no need to keep files in your phone anymore ever, unlimited storage with the cloud.