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This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inacc

This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inaccessible.

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Achshar 14y ago
Shit happens. It was also possible if all your data was on the hard drive. And Google drive has an offline version of the app, so server downtimes limit the usage but don't make it completely useless. And if my hard drive breaks, it's not like a bunch of very well paid engineers are working relentlessly to bring my hard drive back as quickly as possible. But they are in case of a services like dropbox or drive. And not to mention that the whole backup work is being taken care of.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago
  >And Google drive has an offline version of the app How useful is that on a Chromebook that comes with 100GB/1TB of cloud storage and ~9.5GB of available local space?
  - Achshar 14y ago
    Even if you have >9 gb of docs, you are not going to use all off them at once. Offline version is to keep a cache of most used/important files. Offline deals with temporary service downtime or network unavailability. It is not meant to provide a complete experience.
    - Evbn 14y ago
      Is that why Google is invested in AI? To figure out which documents will be important tomorrow, before I board a plane or the servers go down?
      - btian 14y ago
        Nope. Only your most recently used documents are cached.
- jgroome 14y ago
  Sorry, but you can't seriously compare uptime of cloud-based services to hard-disk failure. I've been using computers since I was 12, so about 17 years, and in that time I've had two hard disks break on me. I'm sure you're going to say you've had a lot more, but if your hard disks are going out of action at a rate even near to how often Google's core services drop out, well, you're doing something wrong. "Shit happens" is never a valid excuse, even for a service provided at no cost to the user.
  - Achshar 14y ago
    It's not just hard drive failure. Account stolen laptops, out of charge laptops and convenience of accessing any file anywhere anytime (tablet, phone or PC).
  - Evbn 14y ago
    If shot happens less frequently than the SLA's limits, it is a fine excuse.
ConstantineXVI 14y ago
I nearly never use Google Drove on my Chromebook outside of things I'd have in Drive anyway (Docs, etc). The only 'hard' ties to Google in ChromeOS are logins, updates, and a special Drive interface. I also don't treat it as a computer, just a slightly smarter thin client. And that's fine by me (in fact, that's part of the appeal).

This is one of the dangers of the Chromebooks' reliance on Google Drive and paltry local storage. Having 1TB of cloud storage is not very useful when it's inaccessible.

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Achshar 14y ago

Shit happens. It was also possible if all your data was on the hard drive. And Google drive has an offline version of the app, so server downtimes limit the usage but don't make it completely useless. And if my hard drive breaks, it's not like a bunch of very well paid engineers are working relentlessly to bring my hard drive back as quickly as possible. But they are in case of a services like dropbox or drive. And not to mention that the whole backup work is being taken care of.

recoiledsnake 14y ago
>And Google drive has an offline version of the app How useful is that on a Chromebook that comes with 100GB/1TB of cloud storage and ~9.5GB of available local space?
- Achshar 14y ago
  Even if you have >9 gb of docs, you are not going to use all off them at once. Offline version is to keep a cache of most used/important files. Offline deals with temporary service downtime or network unavailability. It is not meant to provide a complete experience.
  - Evbn 14y ago
    Is that why Google is invested in AI? To figure out which documents will be important tomorrow, before I board a plane or the servers go down?
    - btian 14y ago
      Nope. Only your most recently used documents are cached.
jgroome 14y ago
Sorry, but you can't seriously compare uptime of cloud-based services to hard-disk failure. I've been using computers since I was 12, so about 17 years, and in that time I've had two hard disks break on me. I'm sure you're going to say you've had a lot more, but if your hard disks are going out of action at a rate even near to how often Google's core services drop out, well, you're doing something wrong. "Shit happens" is never a valid excuse, even for a service provided at no cost to the user.
- Achshar 14y ago
  It's not just hard drive failure. Account stolen laptops, out of charge laptops and convenience of accessing any file anywhere anytime (tablet, phone or PC).
- Evbn 14y ago
  If shot happens less frequently than the SLA's limits, it is a fine excuse.

ConstantineXVI 14y ago

I nearly never use Google Drove on my Chromebook outside of things I'd have in Drive anyway (Docs, etc). The only 'hard' ties to Google in ChromeOS are logins, updates, and a special Drive interface. I also don't treat it as a computer, just a slightly smarter thin client. And that's fine by me (in fact, that's part of the appeal).