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I recently upgraded to Dropbox @ $199/yr for 100gb to archive our digital photos. Yesterday MSFT skydrive offered 100gb for $50/yr. Today GOOG offers 400GB fo

• Smerity 15y ago
  I saw the same pricing as you did but it _just_ changed as I refreshed the page a second time. 1 TB now costs $49.99 per month, or $600/year. This is a substantial jump from $256/year and means it's no longer an attractive proposition...
  • Alan01252 15y ago
    Same, I should have ordered faster!
  • celalo 15y ago
    It was available just minutes ago!! I landed a 200GB space for $50/year just before they changed the pricing plans. I should have gone for more :)
    • hornbaker 15y ago
      I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive: http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567&p=butter_old_storage http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ... I'm in the same boat, having had an 80GB plan for $20/yr for some time now.
      • huggyface 15y ago
        I think you got an "old pricing plan," which does not include Google Drive I actually bought an 80GB "old" plan this morning ($20 isn't that big of a bet) after seeing the leak of the upcoming pricing, essentially trying to grandfather in a more favorable plan. While the comparison implies that the old plan doesn't have gdrive, I most certainly have it and have the full 80GB available in it. Further I retain the ability to renew the 80GB plan in a year without adopting a new plan. Perhaps they are simply saying that the people who bought the old plan got a lower price given that they didn't price in google Drive, however they definitely seem to be rolling that functionality in.
        • mladenkovacevic 15y ago
          I did the same thing. $1.67 a month (literally the price of my daily coffee) seemed very reasonable for 80GB of cloud storage with all the googly integration.
        • hornbaker 15y ago
          I certainly hope you're right. Glad to know it's working for you. I haven't yet received access, so I can't tell.
        • libria 15y ago
          Shouldn't be hard to test; see if you can upload a 6GB file.
  • moe 15y ago
    no longer an attractive proposition Depends where you're coming from... At $50 per T/month they're 50% cheaper than Amazon S3. That's nothing to sneeze at.
  • sorenbs 15y ago
    Looks like the old price plan only buys you storage for gmail, picasa and docs (and not Drive) http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567&p=butter_old_storage http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
    • pilif 15y ago
      Contrary to what that page says, my Google Drive client lists 205GB of space which is the free amount plus the exact amount I got with the old storage plan I have since the days when that was only 75GB (it got upgraded over time for the same price)
  • riledhel 15y ago
    Are they AB testing the price? Or did the demand made them change it?
  • nhebb 15y ago
    I'm got a completely different pricing plan than everyone is mentioning. Maybe they're doing some sort of price elasticity testing.
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• bvdbijl 15y ago
  Oh wow, I just bought 1 year for $5 AFTER GDrive was released and I have now 25GB of storage, but now if I click on the link it brings me here: https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ https://www.google.com/settings/storage/ and says my current plan isn't available any more. Sweet!
  • ahi 15y ago
    Maybe you should call customer service.
    • Flenser 15y ago
      no need. If you have an old/unavailable plan you've been grandfathered in and can stay on it, renewing at the same price indefinitely as long as you don't change your plan or a payment fails.
• andrewjshults 15y ago
  The biggest cost (once you get into those multi GB levels) is the weeks to months it's going to take to get everything up. That being said, I'd be very tempted to use drive to backup my photos (raw files, so sitting at 400GB or so). The price is cheap enough to put everything in there and forget about it, but not too cheap where I have to worry about the storage quality.
  • inthewoods 15y ago
    If it's just photos, you might want to check out Adobe Revel - they're offering storage of an unlimited number of photos for $5.99/month. Might be more cost efficient. I haven't checked it out yet but plan to.
• rayhano 15y ago
  Surely ease of use trumps price? I was an original Box user. The ease of Dropbox integration makes me shudder at the thought of giving up that hassle saver. Features-smeatures. I want an online file system that is exactly that.
  • erode 15y ago
    Can't tell if you're referring to box.com or dropbox.com.
  • skinnymuch 15y ago
    Did you ever use Box's desktop syncing? I've been wondering how that is.
• lee 15y ago
  If you just wanted an offsite backup option, you should check out the startup backblaze.com They're offering unlimited storage for $4/month.
  • aoprisan 15y ago
    there is no such thing as unlimited storage. I'd be wary of anything that tries to fool me with the unlimited wording. GoDaddy's hosting packages are unlimited but after 200k inodes, it's not really that unlimited, is it?
    • TomatoTomato 15y ago
      "[Some users] store multiple terabytes." They are certainly not a replacement for S3, but could be a substitute for some use cases. Also, they can certainly change their stance at any point, but they are certainly committed to truly unlimited. http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-to-unlimited-backup/ http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-... http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/10/26/backblaze-2-0-unlimiting-unlimited/ http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/10/26/backblaze-2-0-unlimitin...
      • kozubik 15y ago
        Unlimited storage is a farce, and places you in an antagonistic relationship with your provider: http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-storage-services-vs-rsyncnet.html http://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/11/flat-rate-stora... ... which is the last thing you want with serious backups.
        • Dylan16807 15y ago
          From what I've seen it's not a big problem here because it's unlimited storage for one desktop. The high-end users are only able to go so high.
  • grandinj 15y ago
    Backblaze doesn't know how to work through proxies. I mean, seriously.
• mahyarm 15y ago
  Do you want to use it as a purely backup type thing or as the place that holds your only copy? If it's more a backup type thing, something like backblaze or crashplan at $5/month/computer gives you unlimited backup storage. Crashplan also has a 'family' plan that is $12/month for 10 computers. Crashplan also lets you 'seed' a backup with a 1TB HDD that they ship you for $125.
  • timwiseman 15y ago
    At the risk of being pendantic, I don't think there should ever be an only copy of anything remotely important. (and even 1 local + 1 remote controlled by a single 3rd party is probably not a good policy if it is significant)
• mappu 15y ago
  There are lots of other options you can compare price with - the obvious one being cheap VPSes: BuyVM (happy user) offer 250G for $7.50/mo ($90/yr) or 1TB for $29.95/mo ($360/yr), with the advantage being that this gets you your own IP address and you can run whatever you like on the machine (web server, sftp server, rtorrent, ...). It's not a complete solution for the non-technical, and not vertically integrated like GDrive, but you could probably compete with Microsoft and Google in your spare time with a little margin by reselling them pre-configured: There's ftpfs for linux and no end of ftp apps for whatever phone you've got. I am a huge fan of using cheap VPSes for everything.
• Flenser 15y ago
  It's a pity the +25GB plan for $2.49 isn't as good a deal. It's $1.20/GB/year compared to ~$0.60/GB/year for all the others. It should be $1.25/month - $15/year. Glad I got grandfathered in with the +20GB for $5/year plan. Here's all the pricing info I could find for Google Drive, Old Google pricing, Sky Drive and Dropbox: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag97-edaO5TwdFYweDdkLU0xQ1BmcDZTQWtoX3FZSUE https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag97-edaO5TwdFY...
• fromhet 15y ago
  I've had an idea about remote backup for a long time. To pay ~50usd/month isn't that much of course, but very soon buying a large hard drive pays off. The problem with a local hard drive is that it's local, and if your house burns down, the drive does too. But what if you had your friens drive at your house and your friend had your drive at hers? You would rsync your computers storage to your friends drive, and she would rsync hers to your drive. It'd be seemless, and (presuming you both have all-day-internet access at home, of course) you'd be able to download backed up copies from your friends drive. Perks would be * Owning your data (=== controlling your data) * Being able to seemlessly encrypt it(=== owning your data) * Having lot's of space for cheap * Having a good reason to call your buddy But it would require you both to have a NAS or equal up all day. But I doubt it would save enough money that someone would spend time on it instead of buing space @ dropbox/google/etc.