Today, we’re introducing Google Drive—a place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff. Whether you’re working with a friend on a joint research project, planning a wedding with your fiancé or tracking a budget with roommates, you can do it in Drive. You can upload and access all of your files, including videos, photos, Google Docs, PDFs and beyond.
Mine didn't say 'not yet ready' but it isn't ready. Maybe they changed the message.
I saw the article on news.com.au saying you could get 16 Terrabytes, which would be a perfect amount for me, however then I read: "$2.49 a month for 25 gigabytes to $800 a month for 16 terabytes"
Pay for a google service? For a little over $800 I could buy 16TB worth of drives and sort something out.
HeardY just had to edit that link so it would actually work, something on Trog's to do list I presume with https.
Anyways, looks really good, just hope it won't die off like Google+. You get 5GB for free, though not sure if the plans are cheaper compared to other places like Dropbox. I would love to use Cloud Storage but it's useless to me at the moment with my terrible upload speeds. Once the NBN comes through it will definitely be the way to go for file storage.
You get 5GB for free, though not sure if the plans are cheaper compared to other places like Dropbox.
Google's current pricing for adding storage space to your account blows Dropbox out of the water. $5 a year gets you an extra 20GB. $20 a year for 80GB.
Since noone has mentioned it there was a way to access your GMail storage (7GB) via FTP for about as long as GMail has been available. Don't know if you still can. I tested it once and it worked, but yeah, probably a bit risky since it wasn't official.
I checked the pricing, and I'm a bit disappointed. I was already on the 20GB for $5/year plan, but it's telling me that this plan is no longer available. Next cheapest is $2.49 a month for 25GB. Still a lot cheaper than Dropbox, but significantly more than they used to charge.
5GB is pretty underwhelming...With Skydrive, I've got 25GB of storage (for anyone who hasn't logged into their Skydrive for a bit do so now. If you don't confirm your 25GB of storage they will drop you back down to 7GB). With Box I've got 50GB storage. And with Dropbox I've got 32GB of storage. Hopefully they offer upgrade solutions similar to dropbox where you get bonuses for referrals, etc.
Interesting article here, I'm normally all over Google's products but this makes it a bit of a turn off for me. You guys should def have a read.
The last sentence makes all the difference. While these rights are limited to essentially making Google Drive better and to develop new services run by Google, the scope is not defined and could extend far further than one would expect.
Simply put: there’s no definitive boundary that keeps Google from using what it likes from what you upload to its service.
I use SpiderOak as a secure alternative to Dropbox, as their focus is on having zero knowledge or access to your actual data by using client-side encryption prior to sync/upload.
I received an email overnight... my drive is active now.
Me too.
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Since noone has mentioned it there was a way to access your GMail storage (7GB) via FTP for about as long as GMail has been available. Don't know if you still can. I tested it once and it worked, but yeah, probably a bit risky since it wasn't official.
I remember this! It worked well ages ago for a long while, I think it spliced the file/s up to dodge the max file size limit imposed, behind the scenes, or something like that and the shell/proggy that you installed created an accessible drive in My Computer. Last I heard Google +bjorkslapped that notion.
Yep, my email came in over night as well.
Seems to have Auto-Transfered anything I had in Google Docs over as well.
Cant download it's syncing program at work to check it out though, it also has Phone apps to be had... but my phone is a work phone... and cant do that either...
I remember this! It worked well ages ago for a long while, I think it spliced the file/s up to dodge the max file size limit imposed, behind the scenes, or something like that and the shell/proggy that you installed created an accessible drive in My Computer. Last I heard Google +bjorkslapped that notion.
In short, it creates a shell name--a space extension that creates a virtual file system around the account. This lets you treat those 5 gigs (at the time of writing) as a standard remote drive. You can drag and drop files into the drive, or use standard cutting and pasting. When you add a file, it sends an e-mail to your Gmail account with the file as an attachment. If you delete a file from the virtual drive, it deletes the associated e-mail, as well.
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