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Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastruc

Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.

mhb 15y ago
Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.
- randlet 15y ago
  In the pricing page of My Account it says: Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year But in the blogpost it says:"You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month" They should probably get that sorted out.
  - camiller 15y ago
    Mine said that also, until about 2 min ago. It now points to a different page with the new pricing.
    - TillE 15y ago
      Yeah. I got all excited at the idea of paying $50/year for 200GB. The actual prices are still much cheaper than Dropbox, but not quite as radical as it first seemed.
  - alsocasey 15y ago
    the 5$/year figure is the older extra storage option for GMail/Docs/Picasa. The newer GDrive storage is 2.50$/month for 25GB.
- jcampbell1 15y ago
  When I click the mini-icon on my mac, select "Buy more storage", it takes me to a page with pricing of 20Gb for $5/yr.
- pdubs 15y ago
  http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567 http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... and when you go to "Buy more storage"
- bcherry 15y ago
  (nevermind: they were apparently just slow to update their purchase page. The base price is now $2.50/mo for 25GB) https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage This is linked from the Google Drive app icon in the OS X system tray as "buy more storage". ''' Purchase additional storage Google storage is shared between Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and Google Docs. You get extra space in all these services, in addition to your current free quota. Learn more Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year) Need even more storage? Buy 20 GB for $5.00 per year Store up to 10000 photos from a 5MP camera. Your new plan will automatically renew each year, but you can disable auto-renewal at any time by returning to this page and choosing the free plan. We will contact you 30 days prior to renewal. Please allow up to 24 hours for your new storage amount to appear in all services. Learn more '''
  - camiller 15y ago
    When I following the link you posted I get the new pricing page. It is just taking them awhile to propagate the stuff to all their servers. Give it another ten-twenty min and try again.
  - habitualcoder 15y ago
    from 5$ a year to 30$ (2.5 a month) a year. That's 25$ increase for just 5GB bump in space.
mturmon 15y ago
Notice they mentioned wedding and vacation planning? Great advertising opportunities.

Wow it's cheap, I was looking at it thinking $5 per month for 20gb, that's pretty competitive. Then I saw it was $5 per year! I guess they have the infrastructure to do this and still make profit.

mhb 15y ago

Where do you see that? It says 25GB for $2.49/month - which is still great.

randlet 15y ago
In the pricing page of My Account it says: Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year But in the blogpost it says:"You can choose to upgrade to 25GB for $2.49/month, 100GB for $4.99/month or even 1TB for $49.99/month" They should probably get that sorted out.
- camiller 15y ago
  Mine said that also, until about 2 min ago. It now points to a different page with the new pricing.
  - TillE 15y ago
    Yeah. I got all excited at the idea of paying $50/year for 200GB. The actual prices are still much cheaper than Dropbox, but not quite as radical as it first seemed.
- alsocasey 15y ago
  the 5$/year figure is the older extra storage option for GMail/Docs/Picasa. The newer GDrive storage is 2.50$/month for 25GB.
jcampbell1 15y ago
When I click the mini-icon on my mac, select "Buy more storage", it takes me to a page with pricing of 20Gb for $5/yr.
pdubs 15y ago
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567 http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... and when you go to "Buy more storage"
bcherry 15y ago
(nevermind: they were apparently just slow to update their purchase page. The base price is now $2.50/mo for 25GB) https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage This is linked from the Google Drive app icon in the OS X system tray as "buy more storage". ''' Purchase additional storage Google storage is shared between Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, and Google Docs. You get extra space in all these services, in addition to your current free quota. Learn more Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year) Need even more storage? Buy 20 GB for $5.00 per year Store up to 10000 photos from a 5MP camera. Your new plan will automatically renew each year, but you can disable auto-renewal at any time by returning to this page and choosing the free plan. We will contact you 30 days prior to renewal. Please allow up to 24 hours for your new storage amount to appear in all services. Learn more '''
- camiller 15y ago
  When I following the link you posted I get the new pricing page. It is just taking them awhile to propagate the stuff to all their servers. Give it another ten-twenty min and try again.
- habitualcoder 15y ago
  from 5$ a year to 30$ (2.5 a month) a year. That's 25$ increase for just 5GB bump in space.

mturmon 15y ago

Notice they mentioned wedding and vacation planning? Great advertising opportunities.