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Save more with Google Drive

54 points by cleverjake 13y ago

ender7 13y ago
1TB for $10/mo is a big deal for me and I imagine that the 100GB for $2/mo plan is a big deal for the average user.
- deanclatworthy 13y ago
  You can get unlimited storage for less with backblaze.
  - gohrt 13y ago
    "unlimited" Can you upload it at usefully-high bandwidth? Can you get that data back out when you want it?
    - andrewmunsell 13y ago
      In my experience, Backblaze provides a pretty good upload speed. It didn't maximize my gigabit connection, but it got up to ~25mbps regularly if I am remembering correctly. CrashPlan, on the other hand, has a horrendous upload speed (a megabit per second or less at all times). The only reason I am using them at this point is because they don't delete your external drive data if you don't plug it back in. Backblaze removes your files after 30 days if the external drive isn't reconnected. However, they are both backup services-- while you can access files from a web interface whenever you want, it's not the same as Dropbox or Google Drive. Plus, obviously, there's no syncing between computers.
  - antr 13y ago
    Office files/docs on the cloud != Backup
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cylinder 13y ago
Why am I not getting this kind of storage with Google Apps for Business?
- aggronn 13y ago
  Same reason you pay more than the senior price at a movie theater: price discrimination.
antr 13y ago
We have been discussing this price reduction in the office for the past 15/20min and it seems that we are going to ditch Box (paid business accounts) for Google, not because Google's price reduction is significantly cheaper, but because we have been encountering considerably sync issues with Box. Now both services are, price-wise, the same, Google has won our trust on the sync/availability side of things.
kyriakos 13y ago
compared to Dropbox: 9.99 per month for 100GB Box: 5 per month for 100GB (15 per month for 1TB) and now Google Drive: 1.99 per month for 100GB (9.99 for 1TB)
arikrak 13y ago
Dropbox charges 5x for 100GB/month. Assuming Google Drive works, why would people pick Dropbox?
- FigBug 13y ago
  Google Drive doesn't work, at least for me. It won't reliably stay connected. There is no reconnect option either, so every time it disconnects you have to exit/restart and then it has to re-index all the files. Sharing is clunkier, when you share a folder with somebody it doesn't appear in their drive. After they accept they still need to go into their options to get it to start syncing. There are a lot of Apps that have Dropbox built in. They use Dropbox as their storage. I feel Google isn't putting the effort into their Desktop client that Dropbox is. Google wants people to use the web. They are both cheap enough price isn't an option.
- philliphaydon 13y ago
  I just downloaded it a little while ago (since first release) and I still find the Windows client pretty useless. I'll have to stick with Dropbox so I can sync across Windows/OSX/Linux, my phone, etc. Besides I get faster upload speed on Dropbox, so I can sync all my holiday photos.
- sz4kerto 13y ago
  Because the race has already started a while ago. In this space, network effect is quite important as popularity increases usefulness. Also, Drive does not work as well -- no delta sync, no Linux client (that I find incredible, really -- it's OK that there's no Skydrive client for Linux, but Google Drive?). Also, mobile sync is worse with Drive as it tries to direct you to Google+.
  - alooPotato 13y ago
    What network effects? Its just as easy to share files with someone who has Google Drive as it is Dropbox. In fact probably easier with Google Drive because more people have a Google account (800M ACTIVE gmail users was the last number I read). As for switching costs, its pretty easy right? Drag from one folder to another? Delta sync is a real issue, but what do you mean their mobile app pushes you to Google+, havent seen that....
kyriakos 13y ago
I still find that Dropbox apps both in Windows and Android to be better. Primarily I don't like how google drive won't automatically upload your photos from a mobile device the way Dropbox does rather than insisting on uploading google plus.
- thanatropism 13y ago
  The API and mobile clients are better too. Though the Google Docs API is awesome; apps like IFTT's "add row to Google Spreadsheet" might just eat the cloud DB space from below.
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xname 13y ago
Is anybody else bothered by the "The Google Drive folder selected is not empty. Please select an empty folder" thing of Google Drive? Or just me? If you have 100G / 1T of stuff in Google Drive, you cannot copy them from one computer to another computer's google drive folder. You have to wait Google Drive for downloading all of them from the cloud... Insane...
- mb_72 13y ago
  Yes, and AFAIK (after discovering this issue just now myself and trying to resolve it) there is no 'solution' other than to re-download everything if you move your Google Drive folder.Fortunately I have 'only' 6Gb to re-download but for other's this would be nightmare. In case other people try the various solutions proposed on blogs etc (including hex-hacking the Drive SQLLite files) I couldn't get anything to work. Might save you some wasted time.
ladzoppelin 13y ago
Skydrive is amazing with 8.1 where you do not have to download the file until you open it but it still shows up in windows explorer like a regular file. I cant use anything else until it has this feature. Unfortunately no Linux client.
- hemancuso 13y ago
  Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive - does this thing you describe and is avail on Mac & Windows [soon Linux] for Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and a host of other storage providers.
- MichaelApproved 13y ago
  That sounds like a bad feature to me. If I'm trying to read a document or watch a video file, I need instant access to it. I don't want to activate a download and then wait for the download to finish.
  - madoublet 13y ago
    You can selectively choose what you want available. For most files (images, word docs, etc), you really don't notice the download. It is a killer feature. With that said, Onedrive is far from perfect. I think the apps need a lot of work.
peterwwillis 13y ago
As usual, cloud files are not guaranteed unless they explicitly mention backup policies. Do put your huge files here, but keep a backup.
sgdread 13y ago
I wonder if I can legaly use the drive as an online backup storage (containing "buckets" with client-side encrypted content - mostly photos; encryption will obviously prevent from smart de-duping in the cloud). I was trying to find "fineprint" (like S3 and Amazon Glacier), no luck. It's just too good to be true, I still can't believe the 1Tb has such low price. Another interesting thing: SLA (do they have disaster recovery setup, etc.)
calgaryeng 13y ago
Put 1TB of data into Drive, and then lose it all when Google closes your account and has no humans to fix it....
- assholesRppl2 13y ago
  antithetical fearmongering not appreciated.
- jayd16 13y ago
  And then a bear eats you. Thanks Obama...
  - valarauca1 13y ago
    This is actually a problem. If your youtube account gets suspended so does ALL your google accounts associated with the same G+ and their isn't a way to ban 1 account while keeping your other's active. So if you do a lot of google code, or google drive, or even gmail. Your screwed.

54 points by cleverjake 13y ago

ender7 13y ago

1TB for $10/mo is a big deal for me and I imagine that the 100GB for $2/mo plan is a big deal for the average user.

deanclatworthy 13y ago
You can get unlimited storage for less with backblaze.
- gohrt 13y ago
  "unlimited" Can you upload it at usefully-high bandwidth? Can you get that data back out when you want it?
  - andrewmunsell 13y ago
    In my experience, Backblaze provides a pretty good upload speed. It didn't maximize my gigabit connection, but it got up to ~25mbps regularly if I am remembering correctly. CrashPlan, on the other hand, has a horrendous upload speed (a megabit per second or less at all times). The only reason I am using them at this point is because they don't delete your external drive data if you don't plug it back in. Backblaze removes your files after 30 days if the external drive isn't reconnected. However, they are both backup services-- while you can access files from a web interface whenever you want, it's not the same as Dropbox or Google Drive. Plus, obviously, there's no syncing between computers.
- antr 13y ago
  Office files/docs on the cloud != Backup

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cylinder 13y ago

Why am I not getting this kind of storage with Google Apps for Business?

aggronn 13y ago
Same reason you pay more than the senior price at a movie theater: price discrimination.

antr 13y ago

We have been discussing this price reduction in the office for the past 15/20min and it seems that we are going to ditch Box (paid business accounts) for Google, not because Google's price reduction is significantly cheaper, but because we have been encountering considerably sync issues with Box. Now both services are, price-wise, the same, Google has won our trust on the sync/availability side of things.

kyriakos 13y ago

compared to Dropbox: 9.99 per month for 100GB Box: 5 per month for 100GB (15 per month for 1TB) and now Google Drive: 1.99 per month for 100GB (9.99 for 1TB)

arikrak 13y ago

Dropbox charges 5x for 100GB/month. Assuming Google Drive works, why would people pick Dropbox?

FigBug 13y ago
Google Drive doesn't work, at least for me. It won't reliably stay connected. There is no reconnect option either, so every time it disconnects you have to exit/restart and then it has to re-index all the files. Sharing is clunkier, when you share a folder with somebody it doesn't appear in their drive. After they accept they still need to go into their options to get it to start syncing. There are a lot of Apps that have Dropbox built in. They use Dropbox as their storage. I feel Google isn't putting the effort into their Desktop client that Dropbox is. Google wants people to use the web. They are both cheap enough price isn't an option.
philliphaydon 13y ago
I just downloaded it a little while ago (since first release) and I still find the Windows client pretty useless. I'll have to stick with Dropbox so I can sync across Windows/OSX/Linux, my phone, etc. Besides I get faster upload speed on Dropbox, so I can sync all my holiday photos.
sz4kerto 13y ago
Because the race has already started a while ago. In this space, network effect is quite important as popularity increases usefulness. Also, Drive does not work as well -- no delta sync, no Linux client (that I find incredible, really -- it's OK that there's no Skydrive client for Linux, but Google Drive?). Also, mobile sync is worse with Drive as it tries to direct you to Google+.
- alooPotato 13y ago
  What network effects? Its just as easy to share files with someone who has Google Drive as it is Dropbox. In fact probably easier with Google Drive because more people have a Google account (800M ACTIVE gmail users was the last number I read). As for switching costs, its pretty easy right? Drag from one folder to another? Delta sync is a real issue, but what do you mean their mobile app pushes you to Google+, havent seen that....

kyriakos 13y ago

I still find that Dropbox apps both in Windows and Android to be better. Primarily I don't like how google drive won't automatically upload your photos from a mobile device the way Dropbox does rather than insisting on uploading google plus.

thanatropism 13y ago
The API and mobile clients are better too. Though the Google Docs API is awesome; apps like IFTT's "add row to Google Spreadsheet" might just eat the cloud DB space from below.
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xname 13y ago

Is anybody else bothered by the "The Google Drive folder selected is not empty. Please select an empty folder" thing of Google Drive? Or just me? If you have 100G / 1T of stuff in Google Drive, you cannot copy them from one computer to another computer's google drive folder. You have to wait Google Drive for downloading all of them from the cloud... Insane...

mb_72 13y ago
Yes, and AFAIK (after discovering this issue just now myself and trying to resolve it) there is no 'solution' other than to re-download everything if you move your Google Drive folder.Fortunately I have 'only' 6Gb to re-download but for other's this would be nightmare. In case other people try the various solutions proposed on blogs etc (including hex-hacking the Drive SQLLite files) I couldn't get anything to work. Might save you some wasted time.

ladzoppelin 13y ago

Skydrive is amazing with 8.1 where you do not have to download the file until you open it but it still shows up in windows explorer like a regular file. I cant use anything else until it has this feature. Unfortunately no Linux client.

hemancuso 13y ago
Shameless plug for my product, ExpanDrive - does this thing you describe and is avail on Mac & Windows [soon Linux] for Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and a host of other storage providers.
MichaelApproved 13y ago
That sounds like a bad feature to me. If I'm trying to read a document or watch a video file, I need instant access to it. I don't want to activate a download and then wait for the download to finish.
- madoublet 13y ago
  You can selectively choose what you want available. For most files (images, word docs, etc), you really don't notice the download. It is a killer feature. With that said, Onedrive is far from perfect. I think the apps need a lot of work.

peterwwillis 13y ago

As usual, cloud files are not guaranteed unless they explicitly mention backup policies. Do put your huge files here, but keep a backup.

sgdread 13y ago

I wonder if I can legaly use the drive as an online backup storage (containing "buckets" with client-side encrypted content - mostly photos; encryption will obviously prevent from smart de-duping in the cloud). I was trying to find "fineprint" (like S3 and Amazon Glacier), no luck. It's just too good to be true, I still can't believe the 1Tb has such low price. Another interesting thing: SLA (do they have disaster recovery setup, etc.)

calgaryeng 13y ago

Put 1TB of data into Drive, and then lose it all when Google closes your account and has no humans to fix it....

assholesRppl2 13y ago
antithetical fearmongering not appreciated.
jayd16 13y ago
And then a bear eats you. Thanks Obama...
- valarauca1 13y ago
  This is actually a problem. If your youtube account gets suspended so does ALL your google accounts associated with the same G+ and their isn't a way to ban 1 account while keeping your other's active. So if you do a lot of google code, or google drive, or even gmail. Your screwed.